Best-selling Historian & Author

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Helen Carr is an award nominated writer, historian specialising in medieval history and public history.

Author of the best-selling, The Red Prince: John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, published in spring 2021 and listed in the Times and Sunday Times best books of 2021. The Red Prince was shortlisted for the prestigious 2022 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.

Co-author and editor of What is History, Now? (W&N): A follow up to What is History? (1961) by her great-grandfather, the historian, E.H Carr.

Helen’s next book, Sceptered Isle will be published by Hutchinson Heinemann (Penguin Random House) in Spring 2025.

Helen reviews non-fiction for the TLS, The Spectator, BBC, Unherd and The New Statesman. She hosts podcasts for Intelligence Squared and has previously worked on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time as well as running a hit podcast for the HistoryHit Network.

Helen is a royal historian for Global News Canada and has broadcast for CNN, NBC, Sky and CityTV covering the British Royal Family.

Helen is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society and currently with Queen Mary University London.

  • Sceptered Isle Cover

    Sceptred Isle

    A new history of the Fourteenth Century

    Hutchinson Heinemann

  • The Red Prince cover

    The Red Prince

    John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

    Oneworld Publications

  • What is History Now cover

    What is History Now?

    How the past and the present speak to each other

    W&N