On Screen
Sophie Thérèse Ambler is a historian, author and broadcaster with experience across television and radio. She has contributed to programmes for BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky History, covering subjects from medieval warfare and politics to archaeology, heritage, and the history of Britain and the Crusades.
Selected Television
Sky's Great British Castle Rescue
Sky's Great British Castle Rescue
Sky's Great British Castle Rescue
Filming on location at Lowther in Cumbria to share research on Lowther's Norman ringwork castle, interpreting earthworks and excavation finds to explore the Norman conquest of Cumbria
BBC's Digging for Britain
Sky's Great British Castle Rescue
Sky's Great British Castle Rescue
Describing the Norman conquest of Cumbria and sharing archival discoveries to illuminate the conquest's aftermath, including charters depicting life in Lowther's medieval village
Channel 5's 22 Kids and Counting
Sky's Great British Castle Rescue
Channel 5's 22 Kids and Counting
Revealing the turbulent world of political violence in the Wars of the Roses for an episode on family history, using parliamentary records to uncover a fifteenth-century murder
Selected Radio and Podcasts
In Our Time
Charlie Higson's History of Monarchy
BBC History Extra
Expert contributor disusing the 'Second Barons' War', sharing new research to illuminate the life and revolutionary regime of Simon de Montfort
BBC History Extra
Charlie Higson's History of Monarchy
BBC History Extra
Episodes sharing research on the life of Simon de Montfort, the Battle of Evesham, and the Norman conquest of Cumbria
Charlie Higson's History of Monarchy
Charlie Higson's History of Monarchy
Charlie Higson's History of Monarchy
Episodes illuminating the life of William Marshal (England's 'greatest knight'), the Albigensian Crusade and its leader, and King Henry III