Kate lectures regularly to many historical societies, museums, conferences, hotels, schools, groups, commemorative dinners, festivals and events, in the United Kingdom and Europe. She is a NADFAS accredited lecturer and gives talks to NADFAS groups and has also lectured to the National Maritime Museum, the Institute of Historical Research, the Romney Society, the Soropotomists, the Nelson Society, the Oxford and Cambridge Club, Kensington Palace, the University of the Third Age, the Biographers Club, Chawton House Library, and the Guardian Hay Summer and Winter, The Daily Telegraph Dartington, The Independent Woodstock, and the Althorp, Chester, Clapham, Essex, Henley, Windsor, Kenilworth, Latitude, Mere, Oxford, Scarborough, Wimbledon, Sevenoaks, and Port Eliot Festivals.

Kate's lectures are: 

Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Beauty, Celebrity and Seduction. Click here to read more
Lady Hamilton's Attitudes. Click here to read more
Queen Victoria: Her Struggle for the Throne. Click here to read more
Royal Scandals. Click here to read more
Scarlet Women: Mistresses in History. Click here to read more
Great Queens. Click here to read more
NADFAS lectures and Study Days

2010

Tuesday 12th January at 7pm: 'Young Victoria', North London Historical Association

Wednesday 20th January at 7.30 pm: 'Mistresses in History' with Alison Weir and Tracy Borman, Barnes Literary Society 

Thursday 4th February at 10am: 'Emma Hamilton: From Poverty to Celebrity', American Women of Surrey, Cobham.

Thursday 4th February at 6.30pm: 'Queen Victoria, Success Through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Kensington DFAS, Kensington Town Hall

Tuesday 18th February at 11.30 am: 'Young Victoria', University of the Third Age, Ealing U3A

Tuesday 2nd March at 2.30pm: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and Portraiture in the Eighteenth Century', Brecknok DFAS, Wales

Wednesday 3rd March at 2pm: 'Royal Scandals', Dukeries DFAS, Worksop

Thursday 11th March at 11 am: Royal Scandals, George III, his hedonistic children, and Princess Charlotte, the Queen who never was', North Buckinghamshire DFAS, Newport Pagnell

Wednesday 31st March at 7pm: 'Queen Victoria', Women in History, Hatfield Library, Hatfield.

Thursday 11th March at 11 am: Royal Scandals, George III, his hedonistic children, and Princess Charlotte, the Queen who never was', North Buckinghamshire DFAS, Newport Pagnell

Friday 9th April at 2pm, 'Queen Victoria: Success Through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Linfield DFAS, Surrey

Saturday 10th April at 2pm: 'Young Victoria', The Royalty Weekend, Ticehurst, East Sussex

Sunday 11th April at 11 am: Smithsonian Journeys Tudor Tour to Eltham Palace, led by Alison Weir.

Wednesday 14th April at 7pm: 'Mary Queen of Scots', Deadly Rivals, Treason, Intrigue and Threats to the Tudor Throne, Smithsonian Journeys Tudor Tour

Thursday 15th April at 7pm: 'Dramatising the Tudors', Smithsonian Journeys Tudor Tour  

Wednesday 28th April at 12.30pm: 'Biography, film and wriitng', In conversation with Julian Fellowes, the Saville Club, London

Thursday 29th April at 8pm: 'Royal Scandals', Woburn DFAS

Monday 10th May at 7.30pm: 'Scarlet Women: Mistresses in History', with Tracy Borman, Sarah Gristwood and Alison Weir, Warwick Books History Festival, The Stables, Warwick

Saturday 15th May at 2pm: 'Emma Hamilton', Priors Field School Old Girls Day

Thursday 20th May at 7.45pm with Charlie Williams, Marie Philips and Scott Pack: 'Becoming Queen', Firestation Bookswap, Firestation, Windsor

Thursday 24 June: 'Young Victoria', Sutton Library, Sutton.

Wednesday 30th June at 7pm: 'Scarlet Women: Mistresses in History', with Alison Weir, Tracy Borman, and Sarah Gristwood, Westenhanger Barn, Westenhanger, Kent

Thursday 1st July at 7.30 pm: 'Lady Hamilton's Attitudes', with a live performance of the Attitudes, Dr Johnson's House, London

Wednesday 7th July at 10am: 'Young Victoria', Westerham Fine Arts Society, Kent

Wednesday 7th July at 1pm: 'Becoming Queen', London Civil Service Luncheon Historical Association

Thursday 8th July at 6pm: 'Becoming Queen', Trafford WordFest, Urmston Library

Thursday 5th August at 7.30 pm: 'Young Victoria', Historic Royal Palaces Friends Event, Kensington Palace

Friday 6th August at 7pm: 'Young Victoria', Sheffield Manor Lodge, Sheffield.

Tuesday 5th October at 11am: 'Queen Victoria: Success Through Portraiture and Her Struggle for the Throne', Glade Valley DFAS

Friday 8th October at 10.30am: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century England', Falmouth DFAS, Cornwall.

Tuesday 12th October at 2pm: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and Art in Eighteenth-Century England', Borders DFAS, Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland

Tuesday 12th October at 7.30pm: 'Queen Victoria', Oundle School Senior History Society, Oundle

Wednesday 13th October at 10.30 am: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and Art in the Eighteenth Century', DFAS Bramhall

Thursday 14th October at 2pm: 'Young Victoria', DFAS Cardiff

Monday 18th October at 7.30pm: 'Queen Victoria, Success Through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Bristol DFAS

Tuesday 19th October at 10.30 am: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and Portraiture in the Eighteenth Century', Ashstead DFAS, Surrey

Wednesday 20th October at 11am: ' Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and Portraiture in the Eighteenth Century', DFAS de la Frontera, Spain

Wednesday 20th October at 7pm: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Art and Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century', DFAS Gibraltar

Thursday 21st October at 7.30pm: Tony Lothian Prize for Proposed Biography Prize Dinner, Biographers Club, London

Friday 22nd October at 7pm: Rainbow Trust Literary Dinner, with Waterstones Windsor and the Firestation Bookswap.

Wednesday 27th October at 2pm: 'Young Victoria', University of the Third Age, Sevenoaks

Thursday 28th October at 8pm: 'Queen Victoria: Success Through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Ballinger DFAS, Buckinghamshire

Tuesday 2nd November at 10.30 am: 'Charlotte and Victoria: Young Queens', DFAS Stowmarket

Tuesday 9th November at 2pm: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain', Fife DFAS

Thursday 11th November at 2.30pm: 'Royal Scandals, George III, his hedonistic children and Princess Charlotte, the Queen who Never Was', Walton-Heilsham DFAS, Surrey.

Friday 12th November at 7pm: Prize Giving, Edgbaston High School Senior Speech Day

Tuesday 16th November at 12.30pm: 'Emma Hamilton: from Scandal to Celebrity', Gloucestershire Arthritis Trust Benefit Lunch

Wednesday 17th November at 10.30 am: 'Queen Victoria: Success Through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Welwyn Garden City DFAS

Wednesday 17th November at 1.45pm: 'Queen Victoria: Success Through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Windsor and Maidenhead DFAS, Windsor

Wednesday 17th November at 7pm: Great Queens, with Alison Weir, Tracy Borman and Sarah Gristwood, Dover Castle. Commemorating the Accession of Elizabeth I.

Thursday 25th November at 10.30 am: 'Queen Victoria: Success Through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Chichester DFAS

Thursday 25th November at 7pm: 'The Victorian Age', London History Festival, Kensington Library

Sunday 28th November at 11 am: 'Queen Victoria: Becoming Queen', Marble Hill House, Twickenham

Tuesday 30th November at 11 am: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and Art in Eighteenth Century England', Cavendish DFAS, Derbyshire

Tuesday 7th December at 11am: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and Portraiture in Eighteenth Century England', Tenterden DFAS

Friday 10th December at 12pm: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity - and Christmas', Dover DFAS

Tuesday 14th December at 10.30 am: 'Becoming Queen: Charlotte and Victoria', Dorking DFAS

Tuesday 14th December at 2pm: 'Queen Victoria: Success Through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Newick DFAS

Wednesday 15th December at 7pm: 'Queen Victoria: Succes Through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Uppingham DFAS

Thursday 16th December at 2pm: 'Queen Victoria: Success Through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Paris DFAS

2009

Wednesday 21st January at 12pm: 'Victoria and Emma on Screen', Dining Room, Kensington Palace, Kensington
 
Thursday 12th February at 7pm: 'Albert and Victoria: Love and History', Daunt Books, Fulham Road, London
 
Wednesday 18th February at 12pm: 'Victoria: Rebel Princess', Chelsea Luncheon Club, The Sloane Club, Chelsea
 
Friday 27th February at 1pm and 4pm, Book Signings at 'Who Do You Think You are Live', Olympia Exhibition Hall, London

Wednesday 4th March at 7pm, 'The Young Victoria', Blackwells Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, London

Thursday 5th March at 8pm: 'Albert and Victoria: Love and History', Essex Book Festival
 
Friday 13th March at 7pm: 'Victoria: Rebel Princess', Waterstones Notting Hill Gate, Notting Hill Gate

Saturday 14th March at 4pm, Introducing 'Young Victoria' at the Everyman Cinema, Belsize Park
 
Wednesday 18th March at 7pm: 'Queen Victoria', Priorsfield School, Godalming, Surrey
 
Thursday 19th March at 7pm: 'Victoria: Rebel Princess', Somerville Literary London Group, Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall

Thursday 26th March at 4pm, 'Queen Victoria and her Struggle for the Throne', London Oratory School Historical Society
 
Thursday 2nd April at 2pm: 'Biography and History', Borders Bookshop, Oxford. Oxford Literary Festival Fringe

Saturday 25th April at 12pm: 'Scarlet Women: Mistresses in History', with Alison Weir, Tracy Borman and Sarah Gristwood, Scarborough Literary Festival
 
Tuesday 12th May at 7pm, 'Victoria: Becoming Queen', Warwick Books History Festival

Thursday 21st May at 10am: 'Victoria: Becoming Queen', University of the Third Age Ealing, Ealing.
 
Sunday 24th May at 5.30pm: 'Victoria: Rebel Princess', the Guardian Hay Festival, Hay on Wye. Click here for the programme

Thursday 28 May at 7pm: 'Victoria: Women in History', Ealing Library, Ealing.

Thursday 11th June at 7pm: 'Queen Victoria: first Royal Rebel', Sutton Library
 
Saturday 14th June at 3.30pm, 'Victoria: Becoming Queen', Althorp Literary Festival, Althorp

Tuesday 2 July: Young Queen Victoria, Bermondsey Cinema

Sunday 17 July: 'Victoria', Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Southwold, Click here for more information

Friday 24th July at 7pm: 'Artists, Models and their Studios', Cultural Olympiad, Bradbrooke House, London

Thursday 30th July at 7pm: The History Girls, with Alison Weir, Tracy Borman and Sarah Gristwood, Wokingham Library, Woking

Sunday 2nd August at 2pm: 'Victoria: Becoming Queen', Burton Manor, Neston, Cheshire

Friday 28th August at 7pm: 'Victoria: the First Royal Rebel', Halsted Trust Family History Conference, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham

Saturday 19 September at 12.30pm: Victoria, Becoming Queen, Independent Woodstock Literary Festival, Woodstock, Oxfordshire

Tuesday 22 September at 4pm: Victoria, Becoming Queen, Clapham Literary Festival, Clapham

Thursday 30th September at 7pm: 'Who's the Greatest Monarch', speaking for Queen Victoria, Windsor Library

Friday 2nd October: 'Victoria: Becoming Queen', Henley Festival of Literature, Henley

Tuesday 6th October: 'Victoria: Rebel Princess', Wimbledon Lit Fest

Wednesday 7th October at 2pm: 'Victoria: Becoming Queen', Gloucestershire Arthritis Trust, Cheltenham

Thursday 8th October at 11 am: 'Victoria: Success Through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Kemble DFAS
 
Tuesday 13th October at 7.30pm, Women in History', Mere Literary Festival, Wiltshire

Thursday 15th October: 'Emma Hamilton: from Poverty to Celebrity', The London Oratory School

Wednesday 21st October: 'Victoria: Success through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Abingdon DFAS

Thursday 22nd October at 7.30pm: 'Emma Hamilton: England's Mistress', Sutton Library, Sutton

Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4th November: 'Queen Victoria', 'Royal Scandals' and 'Emma Hamilton', DFAS Antwerp, Brussels and the Hague

Thursday 5 November at 7.30pm: 'Queen Victoria: Success through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Skipton DFAS

Wednesday 10th November at 10am: 'Young Victoria', Schools Event, Windsor Library

Wednesday 18th November at 2pm: 'Queen Victoria, Success Through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne', Liverpool DFAS

Thursday 19th November at 7pm: 'Emma Hamilton: England's Mistress', Beckenham and Bromley Historical Association.

Monday 23rd November at 2pm: 'Young Victoria', University of the Third Age, Sevenoaks  

Saturday 28th November at 2pm: 'Young Victoria', Priorsfield School Literary Festival,  Goldaming, Surrey

Thursday 3rd December at 2pm: 'Emma Hamilton, Scandal, Celebrity and Portraiture in the Eighteenth Century', Paris DFAS, France

2008

Friday 15th February at 7 pm: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and the Attitudes - with a live performance of the Attitudes', Waterstones Notting Hill, 39-41 Notting Hill Gate. enquiries@notting-hillwaterstones.com

Saturday 16th February: 'Emma Hamilton: England's Mistress', 'Panorama of History Conference Weekend', Wellesbourne Hotel, Warwickshire.

Saturday 6th March at 2pm: Who’s The Greatest Monarch, Windsor Festival, Windsor

Tuesday 15 April: 'Emma Hamilton: from Poverty to Celebrity' - Ealing Historical Association, Ealing Green Church, Ealing.

Monday 21nd April at 4.30pm: 'Emma Hamilton: England’s Mistress', Lady Hamilton Hotel, Stockholm, www.victoryhotels.se

Tuesday 22nd April at 4.30pm: 'Emma Hamilton: England’s' Mistress, Lady Hamilton Hotel, Stockholm, www.victoryhotels.se

6-20 May: Emma Hamilton: The first Eighteenth-Century Celebrity?, Nelson: A Great British Hero?; Queen Victoria, the First Royal Rebel?; Royal Scandals through the Ages, on the Queen Victoria Cruise Ship, Mediterranean Delights Voyage.

Wednesday 9th July at 7pm: 'The History Girls', with Alison Weir, Tracey Borman and Sarah Gristwood, Millers Academy of Arts and Sciences, 28a Hereford Road, London W2

Saturday 19-Sunday 20 July, 'Emma Hamilton: England’s Mistress', English Heritage, Festival of History, Kelmarsh Hall, Warwickshire, www.english-heritage.org

Sunday 14th September at 3pm: Kate talks with Anne-Marie Minhall on Classic FM's 'The Guest List'.

Tuesday 16th September at 7pm, Emma Hamilton, from Poverty to Celebrity, Ealing Library, Ealing

Wednesday 17th September at 7pm: 'Who's the Greatest Monarch', speaking for Queen Victoria, Kensington Library
 
Thursday 18th September at 7pm: Launch of 'Becoming Queen' at Waterstones, Notting Hill Gate, Notting Hill

Sunday 21st September at 4pm: Kate appears on Classic FM's 'The Guestlist', with Anne-Marie Miniver

Monday 22 September at 3.30: Kate signs books at Hatchards, Piccadilly.

Wednesday 24 September at 9.30 am: Kate discusses 'Becoming Queen' on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour

Saturday 27th September at 2.30pm: ‘Princess Charlotte’, Windsor Festival.

Saturday 27 September at 10pm: 'Emma Hamilton's Attitudes  - with a life performance of the Attitudes', Shoreditch Town Hall, Last Tuesday Society Basement Experience

Tuesday 7th October at 7.30pm: Queen Victoria: the First Royal Rebel, Wimbledon LitFest.

Wednesday 8th October at 7.30pm: Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and the Attitudes, with a Live Performance of the Attitudes, Sutton Library, Sutton

Wednesday 15th October at 1pm: Queen Victoria: Royal Rebellions, Morley Literature Festival Literary Lunch, Morley

Thursday 23rd October at 2.00pm: 'Scarlet Women: Mistresses in History', with Tracey Borman, The Electric Theatre, Guildford Book Festival

Wednesday 29th October at 2pm: Emma Hamilton: from Poverty to Celebrity, University of the Third Age, Sevenoaks

Sunday 9th November at 2.30pm: 'Emma Hamilton: From Poverty to Celebrity', Burton Manor College, The Village, Burton, Neston, Cheshire, CH64 1SJ

Friday 21 November at 1pm: 'Queen Victoria'. Kate hosts the prizegiving at Spalding High School, Lincolnshire

Thursday 27th November: Kate signs at Hatchards Christmas Customer Evening, Hatchards Book Shop, Piccadilly.

Friday 28 November at 7pm: 'The Original People's Princess', Soroptomists Literary Dinner, Stone Manor, Bromsgrove

Saturday 29 November: 'Victoria: Rebel Princess', Hay Festival Winter Weekend, Hay

2007

Friday 1st June: Emma Hamilton: England's Mistress. The Hay Festival. www.hayfestival.com

Tuesday 12th June at 2pm: Writing Biography, at Ursuline High School, Wimbledon.

Wednesday 27th June at 6.30pm: ‘Emma Hamilton and Biography’, Chelsea Library, Kings Road

Thursday 12th July: ‘Emma Hamilton: England’s Mistress’, Ways With Words Festival Dartington Hall. www.wayswithwords.co.uk/dartington

Friday 20 and Saturday 21st July: 'Lady Hamilton's Attitudes' - with a live performance of the Attitudes. The Port Elliot Lit Fest, Cornwall.
www.porteliotlitfest.com

Saturday 11th August: 'Lady Hamilton's Attitudes' - with a live performance of the Attitudes. The Bohemia Arts Festival, Kent. www.bohemiafestival.co.uk

Saturday 11th August: 'Emma Hamilton- England's Mistress' - an illustrated talk. The Bohemia Arts Festival, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
www.bohemiafestival.co.uk

Saturday 6th October at 7pm: ‘Emma Hamilton, Celebrity and the Attitudes’ -with a live performance of the Attitudes. Sevenoaks Literary Celebration. www.sevenoaksliterarycelebration.org.uk

Tuesday 9th October at 7pm: Wimbledon Literary Festival. 'Emma Hamilton's Attitudes'. With a live performance of the Attitudes. Merton Abbey Millls. www.mertonabbeymills.com

Thursday 11th October at 12.30pm: ‘Emma Hamilton, England’s Mistress and me’. Chester Literary Festival Lunch. www.chester-literature-festival.org.uk

Monday 15th October at 10.20am: ‘Emma Hamilton and her eighteenth-century life’
University of the Third Age. Hampstead Town Hall.

Wednesday 17th October: 'Emma and Nelson' in 'Love and History', Waterstones High Street Kensington.

Saturday 20th October: 'Emma Hamilton: England's Mistress', Wellesbourne Hotel, Warwickshire

Thursday 8th November at 7.30 pm: 'Emma Hamilton: Scandal, Celebrity and the Attitudes - with a live performance of the Attitudes'. Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, London

Wednesday 14th November at 7pm: 'This House Believes that Prizes are Bad for
the Arts' - speaking against. The English Speaking Union, Dartmouth House,
37 Charles Street, London W1J 5ED

Thursday 15th November at 7pm: Interviewing Simon Sebag Montefiore and Adam Zamoyski, Waterstones High Street Kensington

Friday 29th November at 7pm: Signing at Hatchards Christmas Customer
Evening, Hatchards, Piccadilly

Thursday 6th December at 7.30pm: 'Emma Hamilton', Neston Library Centenary
Celebrations, Neston Library, Cheshire

Thursday 26th December at 10am: Kate hosts the 'History Girls' Party for the Woman's Hour Mistresses Special.

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