Andrew Kenrick

Author, historian, editor & lecturer

Dr Andrew Kenrick is an award-winning author, historian, editor and lecturer in creative non-fiction. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Hinterland Magazine. His debut work of biography, Rex Juba: 15 Glimpses of an African King, is out now from Penguin.

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Mary Beard Reviews Rex Juba

Very excited to have a great review in the latest TLS from the Don herself, Mary Beard! Definitely a career highlight so far… “Kenrick’s idea is to use these objects to reveal the of the scattered building blocks out of which we must now reconstruct Juba’s life; and to explore what kind of stories stories…

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Exploring Antiquities Podcast

I speak with Owain Williams, host of the Exploring Antiquities podcast, about my favourite subject: Juba II of Mauretania, an imperial hostage, Roman client king, and famed scholar — a real Renaissance man. You can listen to this episode here, and on all podcast streaming services.

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TalkSport Extra Time Interview

If you were up in the middle of the night last night/this morning, you might have heard me talking to Paul Ross on TalkSport’s Extra Time show about Rex Juba (“a brilliant and gripping read!”), which is also their book of the week (must be the football homecoming parade analogy I use in the prologue).…

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