HeyJaredKate Thompson - Forgotten Histories
Sunday Times bestselling author of fiction and non fiction. Journalist. Social Historian. Ghostwriter. Podcast: From The Library With Love. Sharing the stories missing from the history books.
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- Sep 11, 2026
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Happy 100th birthday to Gabriele, the girl who escaped the Nazis... (opens the original)
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Hello Friends…Hope you’ve all had a wonderful summer and are looking forward to the cosy season.Kate Thompson - Forgotten Histories is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<div class="fa
The damning story behind Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. (opens the original)
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On this day, 71 years ago…It is a little before 9am on the morning of July 13, 1955. A diminutive 28-year-old blonde woman sits calmly in her prison cell. Prisoners who are about to be executed are allowed to wear their own clothes, so she has eschewed the regulation blue smock, in favour of her own skirt and blouse. She does however have to wear prison issued padded calico knickers. Ruth declined breakfast. Instead, she drank a glass of brandy and received communion.Kate Thompson - Forg
What I learnt from my wartime namesake (opens the original)
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Kate Thompson was a woman who took multi-tasking to a new level. The mother of nine raised all her children in three rooms of a condemned slum in Bethnal Green, East London, yet still she found time to nurse her neighbour’s son through double pneumonia, fight her rapacious landlords for a groundbreaking reduction in rent and calmly extinguish incendiary bombs during the Blitz. Kate Thompson - Forgotten Histories is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work,
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