Leonardo St Paul's, London
Friday 13 June 2025
18:20 - 19:10
Conn Iggulden, Kate Williams & Hallie Rubenhold.
Conn Iggulden was born in London in 1971.
He read English at London University and worked as a teacher for seven years
before becoming a full-time writer. He is
one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today. He is
married with four children and lives in Hertfordshire, England.
Kate Williams studied her BA at
Somerville College, Oxford where she was a College Scholar and received the
Violet Vaughan Morgan University Scholarship. She then took her MA at Queen
Mary, University of London and her DPhil at Oxford, where she received a
graduate prize. She also took an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She
now teaches at Royal Holloway. Hallie Rubenhold was born in Los
Angeles, California. Hallie received her B.A. in History from the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst and an M.A. in British History and History of Art from
the University of Leeds. Remaining at Leeds, she embarked on her studies for a
PhD and later completed her thesis on the subject of marriage and child-rearing
in the eighteenth century. Before making a full-time commitment to her computer
keyboard, she pursued a more visually stimulating career in the world of
museums and galleries, working for a Bond Street art dealer and as a curator at
the National Portrait Gallery in London. Hallie has also taught university
courses on the history of London and on eighteenth-century painting, and has
lectured widely on a variety of aspects of British social, literary and art
history in the Stuart and Georgian periods (1660 1830.
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