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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Cawthorne. Are readers getting lazier?

Well, that was certainly the fear in the 18th century, all thanks to the humble index.

In today's episode, we're speaking to Dennis Duncan, lecturer of English literature at University College London, about the surprising and surprisingly snarky

history of the index, including how it has saved heretics from the stake and been weaponised

to keep politicians from office. Asking the questions was Kev Lachon, section editor of History

Extra and deputy editor of BBC History Revealed.

Today I'm joined by Dennis Duncan. Dennis is a lecturer of English literature at University

College London. He's previously the Mundi Fellow in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge

and he's the author of a number of academic books and translations. Dennis, welcome to

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