Kate Williams (tarixchi)

Kate Williams (1974-yilda tug'ilgan) - britaniyalik tarixchi, yozuvchi va teleboshlovchi. U University of Reading oliygohining tarix bo'yicha jamoatchilik bilan ishlash professori.

Yoshlik davri va ta'lim 
Williams Stourbridge shahrida tu'gilib o'sgan. Uning otasi Gwyn advokat, onasi Margaret o'qituvchi bo'lgan. Uning otasi va buvisi Conwy Valley vodiysidan edi. U Birminghamdagi Edgbaston High School for Girls maktabida tahsil olgan. U Oksforddagi Somerville kollejida bakalavr va DPhil darajasini olish uchun tahsil oldi va keyinroq u yerda kollej olimi sifatida ish boshlab, Violet Vaughan Morgan universiteti stipendiyasini oldi. U Queen Mary University of London va Royal Holloway universitetining magistrlik darajasiga ega. U doktoranturada o'qiyotganda Emma Hamilton shaxsini tadqiq qila boshladi.

Ish faoliyati 
Williams Royal Holloway University of London Creative Writing yo'nalishi bo'yicha magistrlik darajasida ma'ruza qilgan. 2015-yilning yozida Williams University of Reading universitetining tarix bo'yicha jamoatchilik bilan aloqa professori lavozimini egalladi.

Jurnalistika va boshqa ishlar 
Williams Britaniya gazetalari, jumladan The Daily Telegraph va BBC History, History Today va Financial Times uchun tarixga oid maqolalar yozadi.

2010-yilda u Biographer's Club Tony Lothian First Biography Prize, Book Drum Tournament 2010 va Litro/ IGGY International Young Person's Short Story mukofotlarida nomzodlarni saralashda hakamlik qilgan.

“Litro” adabiy jurnalining 104-sonida uning “Yuraklarning zaifligi” nomli qissasi bosilgan.

Televideniye va radio 
Williams ijtimoiy, konstitutsiyaviy va qirollik tarixi mavzularini yorituvchi boshlovchi va ekspert sifatida radio va televideniyeda tez-tez chiqishlar qilib turadi. U 2011-yilgi Royal Wedding (Qirollik to‘yi) ni faol yoritib borgan va ko‘pincha BBC Breakfast, Newsnight, The Review Show, Sky News, BBC News 24, Today programme, Broadcasting House, Night Waves, Woman's Hour, Channel Five va yangiliklarni tarixiy va madaniy jihatdan tahlil qilgan. U 2012-yilda BBC One telekanalida qirolichaning parlamentga murojaati va Qirolichaning BBC parlamentidagi nutqini yoritgan.

Williams 2011-yildan 2013-yilgacha efirga uzatilgan BBC Two kanalidagi "Restoration Home" teledasturida ijtimoiy tarixchi sifatida chiqishlar qilgan. U BBC Two uchun Young VictoriaTimewatch dasturini, The Guardian tomonidan "eng yaxshi tarixiy hikoya" deb e'tirof etilgan "The Secret History of Edward VII" (Eduard VII ning maxfiy tarixi) filmini taqdim etdi. U tez-tez hujjatli filmlarda ham ishtirok etib turadi,  jumladan, Faulks on Fiction va The Great British Bake Off filmining uchta seriyasi, shuningdek, Queen Victoria, Balmoral, Sherlok Holmes, Jack Ripper, Nelson's Trafalgar, Elizabeth II va Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home dasturlarida tarix, adabiyot va madaniyat mavzularini muhokama qiladi.

U Radio 4 uchun Samuel Smiles haqidagi "The Grandfather of Self-Help" hujjatli filmini yozdi va taqdim etdi. U, shuningdek, Smiles tarixiga bag'ishlab, 2012-yil iyun oyida efirga uzatilgan Radio 4 hujjatli filmining boshlovchisi hamdir. Williams Frank Skinnerning 2014-yilgi "The Rest is History" radioshousida tarixchi sifatida muntazam ishtirok etgan. Williams 2015-yil bahorida BBC4 telekanalida efirga uzatiladigan The Quizeum dasturining ham doimiy ishtirokchisi bo'lgan. U 2016-yil 2-yanvarda namoyish etilgan Celebrity Mastermind viktorinasining g‘olibi bo‘lgan.

Williams, shuningdek, BBC Two telekanalida 2016-yil 4 va 25-yanvar kunlari efirga uzatilgan Insert Name Hereepizodlarida va dasturning 2016-yil 21-dekabrdagi Rojdestvo sonidagi to‘rtta epizodida ishtirok etdi. Uilyams BBC televideniyesida Versailles serialiga asoslangan Inside Versailles onlayn mini-serialida ham qatnashdi. U, shuningdek, 2016-yilda " Would I lie To You?" nomli BBC One kanalining komedik ko‘rsatuvida ishtirok etdi. U 2016-yil 6-oktabrdan boshlab beshta shouda Dictionary Corner on Countdown a'zosi bo‘ldi. 2016-yil 13-dekabrda u Suzannah Lipscomb va David Harperga qarshi Ketrin Sauton bilan birga Celebrity Antiques Road Trip tanlovida ishtirok etdi.

Williams va jamoa aʼzosi Robin Ince 2018-yil 13-yanvarda efirga uzatilgan “Pointless Celebrities” koʻrsatuvi gʻolibi boʻlishgan. 2020-yilda Williams Chizzy Akudolu, Charlie Higson va Tom Allen bilan birga BBC Two telekanalida efirga uzatilgan Richard Osman's House of Games dasturida chiqa boshladi.

Shaxsiy hayot 
Williams va uning turmush o'rtog'i, noshir Marcus Gippsning bir nafar qiz farzandi bor.

Bibliografiya 

 England's Mistress, a biography of Emma Hamilton, was published by Random House in the UK and US . It was short-listed for the Marsh/English Speaking Union Prize for the best biography of 2005–06, was selected as a Book of the Year in The Times and The Independent, and broadcast as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. A film adaptation is in production with Picture Palace.
 Becoming Queen, about the youth of Queen Victoria and her cousin, Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, was published in 2008 by Hutchinson . It was serialised in The Sunday Telegraph and was a Book of the Year in The Spectator and Tatler. The Times selected it as one of the Top 50 Paperbacks of 2009.
 Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon looks at the life of Joséphine de Beauharnais and was published in 2013.
 Young Elizabeth: The Making of Our Queen, a biography of the formative years of Queen Elizabeth II . It was published by Weidenfeld &amp; Nicolson in May 2012. The audio book version is read by Williams herself.
 Rival Queens looks at the lives of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots .
 The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings 1066–2011, co-authors Alison Weir, Tracy Borman and Sarah Gristwood, published by Random House. Serialised in The Daily Telegraph.
 The Pleasures of Men, novel about a young girl obsessed with a serial killer in Spitalfields in 1840, was published (2012) by Penguin Books in the UK and Disney Hyperion in the US, Canada, Italy, and the Netherlands .
 The Storms of War, novel published in 2014 by Orion. Set during the First World War, the novel follows the lives of an Anglo-German family struggling to survive the home front. Once popular with their neighbours, they are now shunned by society which affects each member individually. Despite these differences, their effort towards the war on the British side does not waver and through these war experiences they learn some of the most valuable lessons in life and family relationships. A review in The Independent outlines the essence of William's novel, and ends with high acclaim for her second piece of fiction.
 The Edge of the Fall, published in November 2015 by Orion.
 The House of Shadows, published by Orion on 26 July 2018.

Williamsning turli jurnal va kitoblarda chop etilgan akademik esselari bor:

 "The Force of Language and the Sweets of Love: Eliza Haywood and the Erotics of Reading in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa" in Lumen.
 (Chapter) "Nelson and Women" in Admiral Lord Nelson: Context & Legacy, ed. David Cannadine. (2005): 
 "Reading Tristram Shandy in the Brothel" in The Shandean, 16.
 "Passion in Translation: 1720s Amatory Writers and the Novel" in Remapping the Rise of the Novel, ed. Jenny Mander.
 "The Rise of the Novel" in The History of British Women's Writing 1690–1750, ed. Ros Ballaster. (2010): 
 (Co-author) The Ring and The Crown: A History of Royal Weddings 1066–2011 (2011):

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