Kate Thompson - Forgotten Histories

Farewell Pat Spicer, the Pocket Venus of the East End

It’s with a heavy heart that I share the news that yet another of the wonderful wartime women I have had the privilege of interviewing, has passed away.

Apr 24 • Kate Thompson

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March 2026

Read all about it - the Underground Blitz newspaper

Complete with it's own lonely hearts club!

Mar 7 • Kate Thompson

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February 2026

London's Travelling Wartime Library

To celebrate the upcoming publication of my fifteenth book, The Secret Society of Librarians, I’m sharing some of the remarkable stories I uncovered in…

Feb 28 • Kate Thompson

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Come with me and visit an ancient, hidden library in the heart of London.

To celebrate the upcoming publication of my fifteenth book, The Secret Society of Librarians, I’m sharing some of the remarkable stories I uncovered in…

Feb 21 • Kate Thompson

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Happy 102nd birthday, Marianne.

Life lessons from an extraordinary woman...

Feb 14 • Kate Thompson

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January 2026

What happened when Auschwitz survivor Renee Salt returned to the Nazi death camp - with her grandson.

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, marking 81 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.

Jan 27 • Kate Thompson

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Remembering Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss

Eva Schloss was known to the world as the posthumous stepsister of Anne Frank, but she was so much more than her connection to Anne.

Jan 17 • Kate Thompson

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Publication of A Mother's Promise in paperback.

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a Holocaust memoir.

Jan 15 • Kate Thompson

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Farewell Henry. The last boy to board the Kindertransport.

It is with great sadness that I learnt of the passing of my friend Henry Glanz.

Jan 4 • Kate Thompson

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December 2025

The GIs who swept a nation's women off their feet.

84 years ago today, Pearl Harbor was bombed, bringing the US Army into WW2. The reverberations of the cultural, social and sexual explosion caused by…

Dec 7, 2025 • Kate Thompson

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My friendship with a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor and the valuable lessons it has taught me.

Renia Berkowicz was 10 years old when German forces invaded Poland on the 1 September, 1939.

Dec 5, 2025 • Kate Thompson

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November 2025

Smutty dragons and raunchy cowboys...

My day as a bookseller inside England's first romantic fiction bookshop

Nov 15, 2025 • Kate Thompson

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