There are currently 20 names in this directory beginning with the letter C.
Callil, Carmen
Carmen Callil founded the Virago Press in 1972. At Virago, amongst other business and editorial aspects of the company, she was responsible for the creation and development of the Virago Modern Classics list. In 1982 she also became Publisher of Chatto & Windus & The Hogarth Press. She retired as a publisher in 1995. She is now a writer and has published The Modern Library: The Best 200 Novels in English since 1950 co-written with Colm Toibin, BAD FAITH: A Forgotten History of Family & Fatherland, a book about Vichy France and OH HAPPY DAY: Those Times & These Times, the story of her ancestors from Leicestershire & Lincolnshire, and their despatch to Australia in the mid-nineteenth century, published November 2020.
Campbell, Katharine- Dr Katharine Campbell
Katharine’s special interest is in biography coupled with medical/scientific history and analysis relevant to her subjects’ life stories. Her first book, Behold the Dark Gray Man: Triumphs and Trauma, the Controversial Life of Sholto Douglas, published in July 2021 by Biteback, is the story of her father, a senior RAF commander who served in both world wars. Woven through the book is an account of his struggle from childhood with incipient post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The book was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize in 2018. It has also been selected for the Chief of the Air Staff’s Reading List in 2022.
She was trained as a neuroscientist, having completed an MSc in Biomedical Sciences Research (with distinction) at King’s College and University College London (UCL), followed by a PhD in Neuroscience at UCL and many years as a postdoctoral neurophysiologist. She has rewarding associations with leading experts on PTSD in Australia, the Netherlands and the UK, and collaborates with historians throughout Europe.
Katharine was invited to participate in the Australian Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, beginning in July 2021. Recently, she has had a paper about moral injury, which also affected her father, accepted by the Royal United Services Institute Journal. She was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 for a documentary on the first Nuremberg Trial, in which her father reviewed the pleas for clemency, on its 75th anniversary in 2021. She campaigns for the charity Combat Stress.
She was trained as a neuroscientist, having completed an MSc in Biomedical Sciences Research (with distinction) at King’s College and University College London (UCL), followed by a PhD in Neuroscience at UCL and many years as a postdoctoral neurophysiologist. She has rewarding associations with leading experts on PTSD in Australia, the Netherlands and the UK, and collaborates with historians throughout Europe.
Katharine was invited to participate in the Australian Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, beginning in July 2021. Recently, she has had a paper about moral injury, which also affected her father, accepted by the Royal United Services Institute Journal. She was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 for a documentary on the first Nuremberg Trial, in which her father reviewed the pleas for clemency, on its 75th anniversary in 2021. She campaigns for the charity Combat Stress.