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Helen Castor (Helen Ruth Castor) was born on 4 August, 1968 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, is an English historian. Discover Helen Castor's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?
| Popular As |
Helen Ruth Castor |
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Author
Broadcaster |
| Age |
55 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Leo |
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4 August 1968 |
| Birthday |
4 August |
| Birthplace |
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Nationality |
United Kingdom
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Helen Castor Height, Weight & Measurements
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Helen Castor Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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It was also awarded the Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590, by the English Association in 2006.
Helen Ruth Castor (born 4 August 1968 in Cambridge) is a British historian of the medieval and Tudor period and a BBC broadcaster.
Helen Castor attended The King's High School for Girls, Warwick from 1979 to 1986, and then completed a BA and a PhD at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Her doctoral thesis was titled "The Duchy of Lancaster in the Lancastrian polity, 1399-1461".
She was elected to a Research Fellowship at Jesus College.
She was a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College for eight years, and is now a Bye-fellow.
Castor was Director of Studies in History at Sidney Sussex College for eight years before focusing on writing and media.
Castor has worked extensively for the BBC including presenting Radio 4's Making History and She-Wolves on BBC Four.
She taught history at the University of Cambridge and is the author of books including Blood and Roses (2004) and She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (2010).
Programmes she has presented include BBC Radio 4's Making History and She-Wolves on BBC Four.
Castor's book Blood and Roses (2004) is a biography of the 15th-century Paston family, whose letters are the earliest surviving collection of private correspondence in the English language.
Blood and Roses was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2005.
She-Wolves (2010) was voted one of the books of the year in the Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Financial Times and BBC History Magazine.
BBC Four televised a three-part series based on the book in 2012, presented by Castor.
In 2013 she was a member of the winning team on Christmas University Challenge, representing Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
She has written for the books pages of The Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The Times Educational Supplement.
She was part of the judging panel for the 2022 Booker Prize.
Castor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017.
In 2022 Castor was chosen alongside four other 'superb readers' to judge the 2022 Booker Prize competition for best novel of the year.
The judging panel of Castor, broadcaster Shahidha Bari, novelist and critic M. John Harrison, novelist and poet Alain Mabanckou, and cultural historian, writer, broadcaster and panel chair Neil MacGregor selected The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka.
The judges admired the "ambition of its scope, and the hilarious audacity of its narrative techniques”.
Castor lives in London with her son.
Her sister is the children's author, Harriet Castor Jeffrey.
Castor wrote the volume on Elizabeth I for the series Penguin Monarchs, Elizabeth I: A Study in Insecurity, published in 2018.
