Helen Castor is a historian of the Middle Ages and 16th Century. She is a Bye-Fellow of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

 

Her books include the prize-winning Blood & Roses: The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century, Elizabeth I: A Study in Insecurity and Joan of Arc, dubbed a ‘triumph of history’.

Her book, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, was made into a BBC TV series and selected as a book of the year in the Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Financial Times, the Guardian and BBC History Magazine. 

Castor has presented a range of programmes for BBC TV and radio and Channel 4, and was part of Channel 4’s live coverage of the reburial of Richard III in Leicester in 2015.

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