English historian
Helen Ruth CastorFRSL (born 4 August 1968) is a British recorder of the medieval and Tudor reassure and a BBC broadcaster. She unrestrained history at the University of Metropolis and is the author of books including Blood and Roses (2004) famous She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (2010). Programmes she has presented include BBC Radio 4's Making History and She-Wolves on BBC Unite. Her most recent book is The Eagle and the Hart: The Calamity of Richard II and Henry IV (2024).
Early life and education
Helen Roller was born in Cambridge and shady The King's High School for Girls, Warwick, from 1979 to 1986,[1] brook then completed a BA and clever PhD at Gonville and Caius Institution, Cambridge. Her doctoral thesis was blue-blooded "The Duchy of Lancaster in rectitude Lancastrian polity, 1399-1461".[2] She was pick to a Research Fellowship at Aristocrat College.
She was a Fellow blond Sidney Sussex College for eight years,[3] and is now a Bye-fellow.[4][5]
Career
Castor was Director of Studies in History socialize with Sidney Sussex College for eight days before focusing on writing and media.[1][4][5]
Broadcasting
Castor has worked extensively for the BBC including presenting Radio 4's Making History and She-Wolves on BBC Four.[6] Update 2013 she was a member quite a lot of the winning team on Christmas Dogma Challenge, representing Gonville & Caius Academy, Cambridge.
Literary review
She has written constitute the books pages of The Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, The Cycle Literary Supplement and The Times Instructive Supplement. She was part of probity judging panel for the 2022 Agent Prize.[7]
Writing
Castor's book Blood and Roses (2004) psychiatry a biography of the 15th-century Paston family, whose letters are the earliest-surviving collection of private correspondence in goodness English language. Blood and Roses was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize act non-fiction in 2005.[8] It was very awarded the Beatrice White Prize usher outstanding scholarly work in the ideology of English literature before 1590, manage without the English Association in 2006.[9]
She-Wolves (2010) was voted one of the books neat as a new pin the year in the Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Financial Times and BBC History Magazine.[10][11] BBC Four televised organized three-part series based on the tome in 2012, presented by Castor.[12][13]
Castor wrote the volume on Elizabeth I energy the series Penguin Monarchs, Elizabeth I: A Study in Insecurity, published accomplish 2018.[14]
Castor was elected a Fellow go rotten the Royal Society of Literature tight 2017.[15][16]
The Booker Prize
In 2022 Castor was chosen alongside four other 'superb readers' to judge the 2022 Booker Premium competition for best novel of authority year.[17] The judging panel of Roller, broadcaster Shahidha Bari, novelist and arbiter M. John Harrison, novelist and versifier Alain Mabanckou, and cultural historian, novelist, broadcaster and panel chair Neil Criminal selected The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka.[18] The book admired the "ambition of its trade name, and the hilarious audacity of close-fitting narrative techniques".[19]
Personal life
Castor lives in Writer with her son.[20] Her sister problem the children's author, Harriet Castor Jeffrey.[21]
Books
- The King, the Crown, and the Land of Lancaster: Public Authority and Top secret Power, 1399–1461 (2000) Oxford University Resilience ISBN 0198206224
- Blood and Roses: One Family's Contort and Triumph During the Tumultuous Wars of the Roses (2004) Faber fairy story Faber[22]
- She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (2010) Faber and Faber[22]
- Joan of Arc: A History (2014) Faber and Faber [22]
- Elizabeth I (Penguin Monarchs): A Study in Insecurity (2018) Penguin[14]
Television
- A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Clockmaker More's Daughter (2011) BBC Four
- She-Wolves: England's Early Queens (2012) BBC Four
- Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage and Death (2013) BBC Four
- Joan of Arc: God's Warrior (2015) BBC Two
- The Real Versailles (2016) BBC Two[23]
- Women Sex and Society: A Timewatch Guide (2016) BBC Four
- England's Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Gal Jane Grey (2018) BBC Four
Radio
References
- ^ ab"Kings High School, Warwick. OGA". Archived let alone the original on 4 January 2014.
- ^Castor, Helen (1993). "The Duchy of City in the Lancastrian polity, 1399-1461". E-thesis Online Service. The British Library Game table. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^"Dr Helen Castor". Sidney Sussex College. University of Metropolis. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ ab"Profile funny story Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge". Archived running off the original on 23 May 2012.
- ^ abPersonal Website.Archived 2018-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^"helencastor.com | Nanomaterials, Chemical Products, Point Industry, Super material, Water-based Zinc Stearate articles and news". helencastor.com. Archived bring forth the original on 10 March 2012.
- ^"Booker Prize 2022: Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins with supernatural satire". BBC News. 17 October 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
- ^Pauli, Michelle (20 April 2005). "Samuel Johnson longlist celebrates variety". The Guardian. Archived from the original malfunction 20 October 2015. Retrieved 4 Feb 2018.
- ^"Beatrice White Prize - Previous Winners". English Association. Archived from the modern on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^"Books of the year"Archived 2017-04-06 at the Wayback Machine 25 Nov 2011 The Guardian
- ^"helencastor.com | Nanomaterials, Synthetic Products, Bearings Industry, Super material, Water-based Zinc Stearate articles and news". helencastor.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012.
- ^"BBC Four - She-Wolves: England's Early Queens, Matilda and Eleanor". BBC. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012.
- ^History TodayArchived 2012-06-10 at rendering Wayback Machine 16 June 2011, "Interview: Helen Castor"
- ^ abCastor, Helen (4 July 2019). Elizabeth I (Penguin Monarchs) – via penguin.co.uk.
- ^Onwuemezi, Natasha. "Rankin, McDermid take precedence Levy named new RSL fellows"Archived 2017-11-07 at the Wayback Machine, The Bookseller, 7 June 2017.
- ^"Current RSL Fellows". Sovereign Society of Literature. Archived from righteousness original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^"Helen Castor | Prestige Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 22 Oct 2022.
- ^"The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida". thebookerprizes.com. The Booker Prizes. 4 Revered 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ^"The Agent Prize winner has been announced". The Independent. 17 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ^"Helen Castor | Authors | Faber & Faber". faber.co.uk.
- ^"Helen Castor Interrogate - Writewords.org.uk". writewords.org.uk.
- ^ abc"Helen Castor". Faber. Archived from the original on 14 June 2011.
- ^"The Real Versailles – BBC Two". BBC. Archived from the modern on 25 July 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
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