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Author of 2 books including Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

Blessin Adams traded police work investigating today’s crime in the Norfolk Constabulary for academia, tracing the lives and deaths of people in early modern England. Blessin received her doctorate fo…

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Kate Summerscale

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Author of 9 books including The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Kate Summerscale (born in 1965) is an English writer and journalist.

She won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2008 with The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House and won …

Carol Ann Lee

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Author of 23 books including The Hidden Life of Otto Frank: The Definitive Biography Based on His Secret Journal―Revealing Who Betrayed Anne Frank and Her Family to the Nazis

Simon Read

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Author of 26 books including Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases

I'm the author of nine non-fiction books published on both sides of the Atlantic. Hachette will release my next book, THE IRON SEA, in November.

When I'm not writing, I enjoy reading (naturally), mess…

Christopher Berry-Dee

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Author of 76 books including Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: A Journey into the Evil Mind

Chris was a former Royal Marine intelligence officer. He is now a criminologist who has interviewed over 30 serial killers.

Hallie Rubenhold

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Author of 16 books including The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Lucy Worsley

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Author of 31 books including Jane Austen at Home

I was born in Reading (not great, but it could have been Slough), studied Ancient and Modern History at New College, Oxford, and I've got a PhD in art history from the University of Sussex.

My first jo…

Kate Morgan

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Author of 101 books including Murder: The Biography

Alice Roberts

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Author of 39 books including Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials

Alice May Roberts is an English anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, physical anthropologist, palaeopathologist, television presenter and author.

Roberts studied medicine and anatomy at Cardiff University, q…

Tracy Borman

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Author of 28 books including The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty

Tracy Borman, PhD, FRHistS, FSA is a historian and author from Scothern, United Kingdom. She is most widely known as the author of Elizabeth's Women.

Borman was born and brought up in the village of Sc…

Natalie Haynes

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Author of 24 books including A Thousand Ships

Natalie Haynes, author of THE FURIES (THE AMBER FURY in the UK), is a graduate of Cambridge University and an award-winning comedian, journalist, and broadcaster. She judged the Man Booker Prize in 20…

Gareth Russell

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Author of 11 books including Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII

Gareth Russell is an historian and broadcaster. He is the author of "Queen James," (a BBC History Book of the Year, a Daily Mail Book of the Year, a Waterstones Best History Book 2025, an Esquire Book…