Iain MacGregor: Publisher, Historian, Author & Public Speaker

About Iain

Iain is a successful publisher of non fiction for major publishing houses, working with talented and bestselling historians such as Michael Wood, Simon Schama, William Taubman and Walter Isaacson – as well as publishing tie-ins with archives and podcasts such as the Imperial War Museum and R4’s ‘In Our Time’ series with Melvyn Bragg. He is also a writer and public speaker on modern history, with pieces in the Guardian, BBC History Magazine, the Spectator, Engelsberg Ideas and the Washington Post. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He lives with his family in London.

Personal message

Hello and thank you for visiting my website.

The subject of history, publishing bestselling historians, broadcast media and writing my own books are what I love. Since 2019 I have researched and written FOUR books: Checkpoint Charlie , U.S. Civil War–Battle by Battle, and The Lighthouse of Stalingrad, where I was fortunate to gain entry to Russian archives for research in 2020-21. The Hiroshima Men was published in 2025. I have now a new book Battle coming out this October with Bloomsbury. My work has been translated into ten languages thus far.

I have enjoyed giving many lectures to students, museums and at literary festivals both in the UK as well as abroad. I have appeared on Dan Snow’s History Hit, as well as a guest on The Rest is History podcast with Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook. If you study my Upcoming Events section, you will see where I will be giving talks and presentations in 2026 for the new book.

I look forward to hearing from you!