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Helen Castor is a Fellow in History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, who also writes reviews and features for the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph and the Guardian. She spent ten years working on the Paston letters, the subject of her first book, BLOOD AND ROSES, which won the Beatrice White Prize in 2006 for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English Literature. More recently, she published SHE WOLVES, a popular history book on the women who ruled England before Elizabeth I, which has received widespread critical acclaim.

She also recently wrote and presented several episodes for BBC Radio 4’s Making History series. She lives in London with her husband and son.