Yasmin Khan

Yasmin Khan is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford where she teaches Global and Imperial history. She was born in London, educated at Oxford, and has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and London. She is the author of The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Yale, 2007), The Raj at War (Penguin, 2015) (also published in the US as India at War) and two novels, Edgware Road (Bloomsbury, 2002) and Overland (Bloomsbury, 2004). She has been long-listed for prizes including the Orwell Prize, the Authors’ Club of Great Britain First Novel Prize, the PEN Hesell-Tiltman, and has won the Gladstone Prize for history and a Royal Television society award.

Yasmin has presented television series including Back in Time for Birmingham (BBC2, 2022); Britain’s Greatest Dig (BBC2, 2020) and A Passage to Britain (BBC2, 2018) and regularly contributes to programmes including Who Do You Think You Are and Digging for Britain.