I am available as a guest speaker for a wide variety of events, from library talks to book group discussions, and I am also open to invitations from podcast hosts. I enjoy making history accessible and engaging, tailoring each talk to the interests and knowledge level of the audience.

As a historian, I bring depth and accuracy to every talk, while keeping the atmosphere friendly and approachable. I am particularly experienced in discussing eighteenth-century history, historical fiction, and the interplay between fact and imagination—but I am always happy to adapt to the needs of a group.

Talks can be delivered in English or German, and I am open to requests from audiences of any size. Whether you are a podcast host, a library organiser, or a book group looking to enrich your discussion, I would be delighted to join and share my expertise.

If you are interested in arranging a talk, please get in touch to discuss topics and availability. Here’s what others have had to say about my talks:

“How do you introduce the academic concept of ‘intertextuality’ to the varied audience at an FOHL [Friends of Highgate Library] event? This was the challenge Alex Dold had set herself last Thursday evening, when she showed us what the concept means using the popular historical novels of Diana Gabaldon, Outlander. She first paid due tribute to the theoretical heavies associated with the term – Kristeva, who coined it, and de Saussure and Bakhtin’s theories of language – and swiftly moved on to explain that intertextuality exists in all fiction be it literary or popular: it is about the encounter between characters or the story in one text and cited characters or stories in other texts – Gabaldon’s volumes, Shakespeare’s plays, a 17^th century French fairy tale, or the real French Revolution, creating a ‘mosaic of quotations’.  Masterfully in charge of her material, Alex succeeded in showing that intertextuality is accessible to us all and can increase the pleasure and depth of reading, and a kind of complicity with authors”
Michele Cohen, Emeritus Professor at Richmond International University (October 2024)