Bernard Levin in conversation with Sir John H. Plumb , who has been called 'one of the most enjoyable of living historians'. As well as the ever-popular England in the Eighteenth Century he has written two highly acclaimed volumes on Robert Walpole ; other important works include The Death of the Past, and the television series Royal Heritage. Throughout, he has successfully combined scholarship and popular readability. He has, until recently, been Master of Christ's College at Cambridge, where before that he was Professor of Modern History.