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Kate Williams
Kate Williams is an author, social historian and broadcaster. She has a DPhil from Oxford
and is currently Professor of Public History at the University of Reading. Kate is C NN’s
historian and royal expert, covers royal and national events on the BBC and other
channels and regularly appears on other TV programmes, including BBC Breakfast,
Restoration Home and The Great British Bake Off, discussing social and royal history,
general politics and culture. She is the resident historian on Frank Skinner’s BBC Radio 4
panel show The Rest is History, and writes features, reviews and comment pieces for
various newspapers and magazines, including the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph,
Independent and Observer.
