The history curriculum in schools must include more women. Full stop.
Kate Murphy is a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University, where she worked from 2012-2020.
In 2015 she became Progamme Leader for the BA (Hons) History degree, which she had founded. Prior to her academic career, Kate was a BBC producer for twenty-four years, primarily on the Radio Four programme Woman’s Hour, where she acted as History Editor.
In 2005, she started a part-time PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London and in 2012, completed her thesis on the employment of women at the BBC in the 1920s and 1930s.
She has since written widely about women at the BBC and her book Behind the Wireless: An Early History of Women was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. Hilda Matheson: A Life of Secrets and Broadcasts, co-authored with Michael Carney, was published by Handheld Press in 2023.