Kate Werran

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 track record of making award-nominated specialist factual documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel Four. Formally trained in journalism through Westminster Press's three-year apprenticeship scheme followed by work on national newspapers, I also spent three years speech writing for a prominent member of the House of Lords and a year producing Delia Dolor's weekly show for Colourful Radio.