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Kate Werran

Bath, United Kingdom
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Covers:  WW2 Social history; race in WW2
Author of Black Yanks (2024) and An American Uprising in Second World War England (2020). PhD by Publication in History. Assoc FRHistS.

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Kate Werran’s Biography

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I write about social history in WW2 and was recently elected Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. “Black Yanks: Defending Leroy Henry in D-Day Britain” was published by The History Press in April 2024. My first book, “An American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy” won the Cornish Holyer an Gof award 2021 for non fiction and The US Military History Group's Jan Jakobczac Memorial Book Award in 2020. Before this, I was a TV Producer/Director with a ten-year tr…

Kate Werran’s Journalist Portfolio

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Inside incredible case of D-Day hero whose death sentence was overturned

Inside incredible case of D-Day hero whose death sentence was overturned

When a Black GI was sentenced to death in dubious circumstances ahead of D-Day, a furious outcry among ordina…

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Revolt in Cornwall - Aspects of History

Revolt in Cornwall - Aspects of History

Kate Werran writes about the Cornish mutiny during World War Two when American troops rebelled but their stor…

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Incident at Launceston - How Racial Tensions Among GIs in Great Britain Led to Armed Confrontatio...

Incident at Launceston - How Racial Tensions Among GIs in Great Britain Led to Armed Confrontatio...

"Riding on the tide of simmering racial tension in U.S. training camps and explosive riots in five American c…

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Author Guest Post: Kate Werran - Pen & Sword Blog

Author Guest Post: Kate Werran - Pen & Sword Blog

Today on the blog, Kate Werran is going to introduce us to Miss Joyce Packe. Read on to discover what a remar…

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Kate Werran (1991, Modern History) uncovers forgotten Second World War history - Exeter College

Kate Werran (1991, Modern History) uncovers forgotten Second World War history - Exeter College

A new book by Exeter alumna Kate Werran (1991, Modern History) reveals an extraordinary forgotten episode of …

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MHM October/November 2020 | Military History Matters

MHM October/November 2020 | Military History Matters

The October/November issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. Th…

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Meet the redoubtable Miss Joyce Packe – known in Torbay, Devon, for her role as local historian, no-nonsense tour guide and general pillar of the community. Less known is that nearly 80 years ago Miss Packe, pictured here courtesy of Herald Express, was plucked from the cream of British secretaries to become one of only six US Army court reporters in the land.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Work experience at the Bath Chronicle - before wining an apprenticeship at the same group (Westminster Press) for the Watford Observer

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes! I've wanted to write for as long as I can remember. On my 9th birthday my parents bought me a second-hand typewriter.

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