Residence London, England Website www.helencastor.com Nationality British Name Helen Castor | Occupation Author
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Full Name Helen Ruth Castor Born 4 August 1968 (age 55) ( 1968-08-04 ) Cambridge, England Education Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Books She‑Wolves: The Women, Blood and Roses, The king - the crown - and the D, Joan of Arc: A History Similar People Suzannah Lipscomb, Amanda Vickery, Lucy Worsley, Dan Jones, Alison Weir | ||
Historian helen castor reveals the real joan of arc
Helen Ruth Castor (born 4 August 1968 in Cambridge) is an English historian of the medieval period and a BBC broadcaster. She was a lecturer in history at Cambridge University and is the author of Blood & Roses (2005) and 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 Four.
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- Historian helen castor reveals the real joan of arc
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- Career
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- Literary review
- Writing
- Personal life
- Books
- Television
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Agincourt or azincourt victory defeat and the war of 1415 dr helen castor
Early life and education
Helen Castor graduated from The King's High School for Girls, Warwick, in 1986, and then completed a BA and a PhD at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She was elected to a Research Fellowship at Jesus College. She is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.
Career
Castor was Director of History at Sidney Sussex College for eight years before focusing on writing and media.
Broadcasting
Castor works extensively for the BBC including presenting Radio 4's Making History and She-Wolves on BBC Four. In 2013 she was a member of the winning team on Christmas University Challenge, representing Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
Literary review
She writes for the books pages of The Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The Times Educational Supplement.
Writing
Castor's book Blood and Roses (2004) is a biography of the 15th-century Paston family, whose letters are the earliest surviving collection of private correspondence in the English language. Blood and Roses was long-listed for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2005. It was also awarded the Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590, by the English Association in 2006.
She-Wolves (2010) was voted one of the books of the year in the Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Financial Times and BBC History Magazine. BBC Four televised a three-part series based on the book in 2012, presented by Castor.
Castor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017.
Personal life
Castor lives in London with her son.