Thanks for visiting my website! I'm a historian specialising in Renaissance and early modern Europe. My book Our Man in Rome, about Henry VIII’s last ambassador to the papal court, Gregorio Casali, is out now. It tells the inside story of Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon from the ambassador's point of view. The US edition, retitled The Divorce of Henry VIII, is out on June 19... go to the Our Man in Rome page to read more.

I'll be talking about the book:

• THIS WEEK at Kenilworth Festival, on Friday 18 May 2012 at 7pm.
• at Chalke Valley History Festival, Saturday 30 June 2012 at 9pm.
• at Ilkley Literature Festival, 28 September-14 October 2012, time tbc.

Follow me on Twitter @cath_fletcher.

You can order a signed copy of Our Man in Rome from Hatchards.

Listen to me talking about the book:

• On BBC Radio 4's Open Book programme, now available to listen online.
• On BBC Radio 3's Night Waves programme, now available to listen online.

For more information about my academic research projects: Our Men in Rome: Ambassadors and Agents at the Papal Court, 1450-1530 and Public history in Florence: from western civilization to world heritage, click here.

News

The Divorce of Henry VIII. The US edition of Our Man in Rome will be published on June 19 by Palgrave Macmillan.
 

"A glittering debut. Fletcher's book is at its best in her account of precisely what it meant to be an ambassador in those treacherous times." Miranda Seymour reviews Our Man in Rome in The Sunday Times.
 

"Reclaims a period of history all too often simplified... a cracking story". Sarah Vine reviews Our Man in Rome in The Times, Saturday 4 February 2012.
 

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