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Katharine Quarmby

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As seen in: MSN UK, BBC, Daily Mail, Scottish Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), Yahoo Canada, Gizmodo, Newsweek, The Atlantic and
Covers:  Environment; foreign reporting; climate change; climate crisis; disability rights; freedom of speech; book reviews, care system/adoption
✍🏽 Writer and journalist; muckrack.com/katharine-quarmby; non-fiction agent @andrewlownie. NED, @alcs_uk. Winner, Tenacious Journalist Award 2026.

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Katharine Quarmby’s Biography

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Katharine Quarmby is an experienced and award-winning journalist, writer and editor, with a background in investigative reporting and editing across broadcast, print and online. Management experience in online and magazine newsrooms, with board experience at government and nonprofits. Specialisms in environmental, collaborative and investigative journalism. She has worked for over a decade for BBC and other broadcasters and served in a variety of correspondent and associate editor roles for the…

Katharine Quarmby’s Journalist Portfolio

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Mother and baby homes - when 'sorry' is not enough - The Tablet

Mother and baby homes - when 'sorry' is not enough - The Tablet

The government and the Churches are moving towards apologising for their role in the forcible adoption of chi…

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England's Nazareth - The Tablet

England's Nazareth - The Tablet

The Norfolk landscape changes as you near England's Nazareth ­- the ­village of Little Walsingham and its shr…

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KATHARINE QUARMBY: NHS is silently failing adopted children like me

KATHARINE QUARMBY: NHS is silently failing adopted children like me

In June 2024, Rebecca Bowyer, a 46-year-old nurse from Falmouth and an adoptee, finally received the name of …

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How an orphan girl became an 'object' in Georgian Britain - The Tablet

How an orphan girl became an 'object' in Georgian Britain - The Tablet

There are only a couple of surviving images of the Refuge for the Destitute, the Georgian institution which m…

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A heroine at the helm: the Victorian wife who navigated gales and Antarctic waters - The Tablet

A heroine at the helm: the Victorian wife who navigated gales and Antarctic waters - The Tablet

In July 1856, 19-year-old newlywed Mary Ann Patten and her husband, master mariner Joshua, embarked on the me…

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'People are going to be flooded': Could the UK's top natural disaster sink Labour's housing ambit...

'People are going to be flooded': Could the UK's top natural disaster sink Labour's housing ambit...

Just this week, MPs urged Labour to do more on flood risks. Is the government's 'build, baby, build' fixation…

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Articles

Collected: The Podcast – March 2026

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By Katharine Quarmby
| Royal Literary Fund
(l-r) Patricia Cumper by Michael-Wharley; Katharine Quarmby; Hugo Williams copyright Adnan Sarwar This month, Collected: The Podcast heard from three fascinating guests – playwright Patricia Cumper MBE, the celebrated former artistic director of Talawa Theatre Company; Katharine Quarmby, novelist, journalist and non-fiction writer; and poet Hugo Williams, a former winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
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Finding Beckham in Tehran

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By Katharine Quarmby
| That Was The Week (Podcast)
David Beckham and me, somewhere in north Tehran, 2007 - copyright, Katharine Quarmby Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. One of the sweetest and strangest things about going to Iran, back in 2007, was how much so many people loved Britain.
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How Europe risks losing the battle against rising flood waters

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By Staffan Dahllof Verified, Katharine Quarmby, Nicoline Noe, Marcos García Rey Verified
| EUobserver Verified
Europe faces escalating flood disasters driven by warming seas and extreme rainfall, killing communities and hitting the poor hardest, while fragmented policies, uneven data, and weak adaptation leave countries unprepared, an investigation across six countries shows. The 2024 catastrophic flash floods in Spain claimed some 237 lives and caused extensive property damage across the region, turning into one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country's history.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I was features ed for a student publication; my first paid gig was as a trainee financial journalist

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, I learned touch typing during journalism training

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

FOIs and EIRS; interviews; filming and recording audio and video; Microsoft CoPilot; Deepl.

Awards

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Winner, Tenacious Journalist Award 2026/Public Interest News Foundation

2026 - Tenacious Journalist Award

Every community deserves great journalism: reporting that not only investigates stories and keeps people informed, but inspires action.

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Historical Novel Society

2026 - Historical Crime

Shortlisted, First Chapter Competition, Historical Novel Society

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New Angle Prize for Literature (shortlisted)

2025 - Literature set in East Anglia
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Freelance Journalism Awards (shortlisted)

2023 - Investigation

Shortlisted, Freelance Journalism Awards/Journalism.co.uk for best investigation (on a series of articles looking at the environmental racism resulting in the hazardous location of sites for Gypsies and Travellers in the UK)

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European Parliament/Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism

2022 - Investigation

Shortlisted, European Parliament/Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism, for Pesticides at Work cross-border investigation

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