books on the walls is thrilled to welcome Professor Kate Williams for an intimate evening of lively discussion and debate.

About Kate – she is an author, social historian and broadcaster. She has a DPhil from Oxford and is currently Professor of Public History at the University of Reading. Kate is CNN's historian and royal expert, covers royal and national events on the BBC and other channels and regularly appears on other TV programmes, including BBC Breakfast, Restoration Home and The Great British Bake Off, discussing social and royal history, general politics and culture. She is the resident historian on Frank Skinner's BBC Radio 4 panel show The Rest is History, and writes features, reviews and comment pieces for various newspapers and magazines, including the Independent and Observer.

Kate is the author of several acclaimed historical biographies, including England’s Mistress, Becoming Queen, Young Elizabeth, Josephine, Rival Queens and The Royal Palaces: Secrets and Scandal. Her latest book, Regina: A New History of Women and Power has been heralded as ‘a triumph’ by Kate Mosse – The Map of Bones, ‘a must-read’ by Anthony Delaney – Queer Georgians and ‘Regina is the crowning achievement of a lifetime of telling women's stories . . . Kate Williams is a woman of great power herself’ by Lucy Worsley - Jane Austen at Home.

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