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Kate Vigurs
Dr Kate Vigurs is a full time historian and author of Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE, with her second book Mission Europe due for publication in 2025. She speaks widely on women's history and both World Wars at museums, history festivals and clubs.
She regularly appears on radio and TV, including documentaries on PBS America, Netflix and the BBC. Kate works as a guide on trips covering the Western Front battlefields, Berlin and Krakow/Auschwitz.
She also has her own historical theatre company ‘History’s Maid’ and regularly produces scripts, films and live performances in castles, stately homes and heritage sites.
In what spare time she has Kate enjoys riding her horse Daxi, walking her dog and going to the theatre.
Courses
Meet the remarkable women who shaped the modern age: from suffragettes and spies to artists and pioneers. This course uncovers their real stories through lively discussion and fresh perspectives on a century of courage, wit, and change.
Uncover the hidden stories of courage and resistance in World War II. This course explores espionage, uprisings, and intelligence operations across occupied Europe, revealing how ordinary people shaped history through extraordinary acts of defiance.
Delve into the hidden world of intelligence, sabotage and espionage during this summer course in Oxford that uncovers the murky world of under cover agents and spies.
Delve into a world of secret agents and sabotage and uncover the stories of some of the most incredible women of the 20th century. Operating behind enemy lines they blew up factories and railways, fooled the Nazis and undertook high risk prison breakouts.