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Kate Williams is a British historian, author, and television presenter. She is a Professor of Public Engagement with History at the University of Reading.



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“History is so important. It explores and tells us who we are. We should be doing more of it as a country, not less.”

Kate Williams (historian)

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/01/studying-history-should-not-be-only-for-the-elite-say-academics
Studying history should not be only for the elite, say academics
Anna
Fazackerley
The Guardian
1 May 2021
2 May 2021

“Our understanding of history and the country is shaped by the images the survive.”

Kate Williams (historian)

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1356274/memory-lane-personal-memories-pictures-photographs
Your personal Memory Lane is a treasure trove of fantastic memories, says KATE WILLIAMS
The Express
5 November 2020
2 May 2021

“. We should nurture great minds of the future, not tunnel their vision.”

Kate Williams (historian)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-41777200
Historian Kate Williams on Tory and Labour policies
BBC
27 October 2017
2 May 2021

“Large families were really in fashion [in Victorian England], they were seen as a status symbol, they were seen as an example of how the man was very virile. The reality was that, like Victoria, people were pregnant repeatedly. Every three months or so they might fall pregnant, so the average woman was pretty much pregnant or about to be pregnant for most of her early married life.”

Kate Williams (historian)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b06hh19v
Peter Snow Returns to the Future: Kate Williams
BBC
16 October 2015
2 May 2021

“In a history book, you can't imagine, you can't speculate, you can't conjure new worlds because that would ruin the history book. .... And in a novel you can't have too much fact-dumping, too much history, it just doesn't work, too much footnoting, again that ruins the story. So I love the fact that I can do speculation and imagination in one and go wild in a novel and then do proper, scrupulous research in the other. I think they compliment each other.”

Kate Williams (historian)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-17945784
Meet the Author: Kate Williams
BBC
3 May 2012
2 May 2021

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