Katharine Quarmby
Award-winning writer, editor and journalist.
Author: Katharine Quarmby
-
I’ve added my election statement for the Society of Authors management committee below. There are some very good other candidates and I look forward to a fair election. Because of space I wasn’t able to include details of my committee and campaigning work. I am a member of English Pen and the NUJ. I am…
-
Mo Stewart (a pen name) wrote this book, Cash Not Care, as an impassioned, critical response to what some might call ‘welfare reforms’ – and many, many others would call the austerity measures that have tightened since 2010, when the Coalition Government came to power in the UK. This administration was followed by a Conservative…
-
On Sunday our road held its annual street party and we did something new – a story tent which I was lucky enough to put together, with help from some other lovely neighbours, most notably Dorothy Newton. You can hear the recordings here: There were several strands behind the story tent, but I think…
-
It’s a bit unusual to have three publications out in one month, but very exciting – and they are all collaborations with lovely people. The first two are picture books, co-written with the English Traveller, Richard O’Neill, and are published to coincide with Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month. Yokki and the Parno Gry, about a…
-
From the co-ordinators of the Disability Hate Crime Network: We are all saddened and shocked by the killing of Jo Cox and we would like to extend our sympathies to her family, to her constituency and to all those who knew her. A local man has been named as her alleged attacker and his…
-
Women and violence – some more thoughts on my article for Mosaic Science The long feature that I have just written for Mosaic Science on women and violence has, in truth, taken a long while to write. I have reflected long and hard on our place, as women, in the history of power and…
-
In today’s blog-post, I want to link back to a chapter I wrote in my 2011 book, Scapegoat: why we are failing disabled people. In this book I investigated disability hate crime, but I also wanted to set it in its wider context. This chapter looks at that wider context – how our society…
-
In August 1975 our family flew to Kathmandu to visit my uncle, Andrew Quarmby, an aid worker and film-maker, his wife Diana and our cousin Sarah. Andrew and my dad, Michael, had been keen walkers since their days growing up in hill-country in Yorkshire, as sons of farmers. Now they wanted to take all of…
-
Originally posted on Katharine Quarmby: In this extract from my book, Scapegoat: why we are failing disabled people (Portobello, 2011), on Holocaust Memorial Day, I am sharing my analysis of how the T4 Nazi killing machine was inspired by eugenics enthusiasts in the UK and the US. It’s a grim read, I’m afraid, but important…
-
Originally posted on Katharine Quarmby: I have been very moved by the many wonderful contributions to Holocaust Memorial Day, all around the world. Here’s my contribution – a short extract from my book, No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers, published by Oneworld Publications in 2013. It contains a…
Katharine Quarmby 