https://katherineharveyhistorian.co.uk/contact daily 0.75 2021-07-22 https://katherineharveyhistorian.co.uk/about daily 0.75 2024-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/1626901681115-E8H1DOC6896G7R60ZQCX/KH+headshot.jpeg Contact https://katherineharveyhistorian.co.uk/work daily 1.0 2026-03-28 https://katherineharveyhistorian.co.uk/work/reviews monthly 0.5 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/1626977566315-TM1YLNPHDJPCDFNJ7QX3/Wickham+cover+for+website.png Work - Reviews - Selected reviews: ‘The God-fearing Women of the 17th Century’, Engelsberg Ideas (March 4 2026) ‘Our Ladies’ Man in Venice’, Sunday Times (February 22 2026) ‘The Nepo Baby Archbishop Who Toppled a King’, The Times (February 21 2026) ‘The hard London life of young Charlie Chaplin’, The Times (January 24 2026) ‘The Woman Who Made the Tudors’, Engelsberg Ideas (January 15 2026) ‘The Call of Britain’s Ancient Past’, The Times (December 20 2025) ‘The Final Journey of Edward I’s Queen’, The Times (December 6 2025) ‘The Curious Case of Corpse Killings’, Engelsberg Ideas (October 27 2025) ‘Neither Saints nor Seducers’, The Sunday Times (October 26 2025) ‘Kings and Things’, The Times (October 4 2025) ‘Who’d be a Medieval Queen?’, The Sunday Times (September 21 2025) ‘The Brief, Brilliant Life of Christopher Marlowe’, The Times (September 6 2025) ‘Mystery in the Moon’, Engelsberg Ideas (August 28 2025) ‘From Bum-fodder to Crumble-Hall’, The Times (August 23 2025) ‘Sanctuary’, Church Times (August 8 2025) ‘The Myth of the Solitary Genius’, Engelsberg Ideas (July 28 2025) ‘Samuel Pepys Exposed’, The Times (July 26 2025) ‘The Horrible History of Death in Tudor England’, Sunday Times (July 6 2025) ‘England’s Time of Troubles’, Engelsberg Ideas (June 12 2025) ‘A Little History of Privacy’, Engelsberg Ideas (May 28 2025) ‘Knights of Venus’, TLS (May 2 2025) ‘The British Way of Death’, The Sunday Times (April 27 2025) ‘The Power of Pilgrimage’, Engelsberg Ideas (March 14 2025) ‘Between Two Rivers’, The Sunday Times (February 23 2025) ‘Saints’, Church Times (November 29 2024) ‘Ghospelling and Ghossiping’, Engelsberg Ideas (November 19 2024) ‘Hubble, Bubble- and Trouble for the Pendle Witches’, The Times (November 9 2024) ‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’, The Sunday Times (October 13 2024) ‘A Tale of Two Kings’, The Times (September 28 2024) ‘Medieval Gossip’, TLS (September 19 2024) ‘Christianity’s Carnal Contradictions’, Engelsberg Ideas (September 17 2024) ‘Henry V: Model King or Cruel Warmonger?’, The Times (September 7 2024) ‘Portrait of an Unhappy Tudor Queen’, The Times (July 13 2024) ‘The Truth about the Serpent Queen’, Sunday Times (June 9 2024) ‘The Golden Age of the Supernatural’, Engelsberg Ideas (May 22 2024) ‘Anne Boleyn: Scheming Seductress or Deft Diplomat?’, Sunday Times (April 28 2024) ‘Arise, England’, Sunday Times (March 31 2024) ‘Bone People’, TLS (March 29 2024) ‘Orkney: the most dangerous place in all of Christendom’, Engelsberg Ideas (March 7 2024) ‘Young Elizabeth’, The Times (February 17 2024) ‘Edward the Virtue-Signaller’, TLS (January 12 2024) ‘Bede and the Theory of Everything’, Church Times (December 22 2023) ‘Flights of Fantasy’, Engelsberg Ideas (December 7 2023) ‘The Latrine of Luxury’, TLS (July 28 2023) ‘Women, Dance and Parish Religion’, Church Times (March 3 2023) ‘Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe’, Sunday Times (February 19 2023) ‘The Wife of Bath’, Sunday Times (January 15 2023) ‘Breakspear: The English Pope’, Church Times (January 13 2023) ‘Who’d Want to be a Royal Wife?’, Sunday Times (October 30 2022) ‘London Calling: The Real Dick Whittington’, TLS (Sept 30 2022) ‘Europe’s Original Game of Thrones’, Sunday Times (July 17 2022) ‘Wild women of the Middle Ages’, Sunday Times (July 3 2022) ‘Going to Church in Medieval England’, Church Times (October 1 2021) ‘The Unfamiliar King’, TLS (July 3 2020) ‘Greater than her marriage’, TLS (June 17 2019) ‘Love without end’, Church Times (April 26 2019) ‘Gain of thrones’, TLS (October 5 2018) ‘Medieval European Union’, TLS (December 16 2016) https://katherineharveyhistorian.co.uk/work/academic monthly 0.5 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/1626960385308-4PKIJ50SWH5X8HAXZOP4/Elections+cover+for+website.png Work - Academic - My monograph, Episcopal Appointments in England, c. 1214-1344: From Episcopal Election to Papal Provision, was published by Ashgate in 2014. ‘Exceptionally well ordered, and written with graceful clarity…an exemplary study of an important subject.’ (John Maddicott, English Historical Review) ‘This is an excellent book, henceforth the leading authority in its field.’ (Nicholas Vincent, Journal of Ecclesiastical History) ‘An exemplary work of church history written with a mastery of a wide range of primary sources (from canon law to chronicles) in highly engaging and accessible style. It reminded me of the early work of Robert Brentano.’ (Patrick Nold, Church History) https://katherineharveyhistorian.co.uk/work/articles monthly 0.5 2021-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/28bd5c36-3575-4dac-bb5f-0011c1dc8f35/Medieval+water+for+website.png Work - Articles The Vilest of All Beverages? (Wellcome Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/b23c7080-49a0-4a6f-a67c-a41f0c0d8320/Japanese+lady+for+website.png Work - Articles Confessions of a Japanese Noblewoman (Engelsberg Ideas) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/df80ab13-806d-4e53-b5d7-90876c80737a/Screenshot+2025-05-21+at+20.52.28.png Work - Articles The Old, Old, Very Old Man (Public Domain Review) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/91c08070-1de9-45df-922c-a33631fd6035/Screenshot+2025-04-27+at+13.34.15.png Work - Articles The Medieval Origins of the Pope's Lying-in-State (Engelsberg Ideas) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/f580e6c3-ab84-4812-946c-6d89754fffdb/Screenshot+2024-07-25+at+13.48.39.png Work - Articles Gerald of Wales, Chronicler of the Celtic World (Engelsberg Ideas) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/df991793-636c-4873-90ac-3ef48f673127/Screenshot+2023-11-28+at+22.01.04.png Work - Articles Medieval Advice for Living Forever (Time) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/406cf176-ebff-43e0-85df-27994e791ac5/Medieval+Parasites+Saints+History+Today.jpg Work - Articles Lousy Saints (History Today) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/be64befd-9b62-4923-8b47-d20097824220/Screenshot+2023-10-09+at+19.09.42.png Work - Articles 5 ways our ancestors tried to get rid of bedbugs (History Extra) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/a29a1d4a-26dd-4a32-873f-fb7291ace869/IMG_4775.jpeg Work - Articles Advice for (Medieval) Old Age (Wellcome Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/c15bde52-99a8-4fd9-b9b1-e32841dd2739/Urine+flasks+for+website.jpeg Work - Articles Troubled Waters: Reading Urine in Medieval Medicine (Public Domain Review) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/a52ebc92-e69f-45f9-aab9-1748c590698c/Medieval+babies+for+website.png Work - Articles Medieval Babycare (Aeon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/f59f0256-1c4a-493d-a041-6d3aa8b76298/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+15.16.38.png Work - Articles A Plethora of Penises: How People Wrote About Sex in the Middle Ages (Literary Hub) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/a88bc34d-315f-41e4-a96a-9af9df3bcbff/Screenshot+2023-01-16+at+20.51.18.png Work - Articles Medieval Wellness (History Extra) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/d8435dae-cb49-4825-ae16-3bac3897c980/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+15.20.33.png Work - Articles Sexy (medieval) times (Wellcome Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/0a72b690-d40f-453b-b749-6e2d6bed8e6d/Harvey_Troubled+in+My+Eyes.jpeg Work - Articles Troubled in my eyes (Hektoen International) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/8d040a33-40a3-4614-9fd2-3d423343911b/Regimenforwebsite.jpeg Work - Articles How to live well (Wellcome Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8610ef01ca075ba7b6998/d1b92d5e-2053-40f2-9bcf-d662ced23459/Medieval+spider+for+website.png Work - Articles A sign of the devil or a miracle cure? 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