Catherine Fletcher

I'm a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe and author of books including The Roads to Rome: A Journey Into Europe’s Past, The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance, The Black Prince of Florence: The Life of Alessandro de' Medici, and The Divorce of Henry VIII. My latest book, published 2026, is The Firearm Revolution. Podcast and radio credits include "You're Dead to Me", "In Our Time" and "Free Thinking". I'm currently Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University.