Twitter, Belgian historians are having a convo about publishing history for a wider public (+role/absence of academic historians in that) which seems based on the assumptions that 1) only narrative history history speaks to a broader audience & 2) narrative history =non-academic.

My instinctive reaction is not to be convinced of either: in my head it's mostly about writing engagingly and clearly, and that doesn't only have to take that specific form of narrative history.

Any other examples of non-narrative histories that sell broadly?

Eamon Duffy's Stripping of the Altars comes to mind.

And I'm pretty sure @misswalsingham's female spies did really well.