Katherine Carter

Katherine is a curator and historian who has managed the house and collections at Chartwell, Winston Churchill’s country home, for more than a decade. A commentator and adviser on the life and legacy of Sir Winston Churchill, she lectures internationally and appears frequently in print and broadcast media. She is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and is a Churchill Fellow of Westminster College, the site of Winston Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech in Fulton, Missouri. Her best-selling first book, Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm, published by Yale University Press, has received rave reviews in both national and international press, as well as critical acclaim. Literary Review magazine called it "a stimulating and enjoyable work that shows us interwar politics from an unfamiliar angle", while The Critic Magazine remarked that it had been written "with such relish that one can smell the cigar smoke exude from every page".