Jack Staples-Butler is an undergraduate in History and is originally from Scarborough, North Yorkshire. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as part of York Global Programmes and has reported for URY News and The Yorker. He writes for The Yorker on culture, current affairs and university research and blogs at historyjack.com. Jack writes, produces and presents The History Programme with sound and technical assistance from Anthony Williams.
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