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REBECCA FRASER is a historian, broadcaster and journalist, who was part of Gil Gross's 2024 CBS News Radio Thanksgiving Special. She has appeared on the USA National Weather Desk TV Channel, as well as the History Author Show, and Ben Franklin’s World - the podcast for Early American History. Her most recent book, The Mayflower was a Times History Book of the Year, which the Financial Times called “addictively readable”. President of the Bronte Society for many years, her biography of Charlotte Bronte has been continuously in print since 1988. She featured in BBC4’s programme about the Bronte Parsonage,'The Secret Life of Books’.
Her popular history, A People’s History of Britain has been translated into Chinese and is sold in the UK and the USA. The Telegraph newspaper described it as "an elegantly written, impressively well-informed single volume history of how England was governed during the past 2000 years.” The New Statesman called it “A reference book that will see every history student through school and university”.
She has spoken at the Chalke Valley History Festival , the English Speaking Union, the Hay Festival, Henley Festival, the Wells Festival and interviewed for the Buckingham Literary Festival. She regularly writes for the TLS, The Article, the Oldie and The Tablet magazine. She was recently elected to The Colonial Society of Massachusetts for her work on early colonial history. A member of the Society of Authors and the Biographers Club, she is working on a new book about William III.
Rebecca is represented by Charlie Campbell at Greyhound Literary.
Recent Broadcasts & Writing
TLS Book Review
Review: Russell Shorto’s Taking Manhattan - the unexpectedly peaceful 17th-century transition of power from Dutch to English rule in New York.
Podcast
Discussion with celebrated CBS journalist Gil Gross examining the Pilgrims' motives in emigrating to America and how the colony differed from Massachusetts.