Kassia St. Clair is a writer and cultural historian. She specialises in telling gripping stories about the overlooked and the everyday.
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Podcast.
The Blue Plaque Pod, your new favourite history podcast, launches March 2024.
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Books.
Buy The Secret Lives of Colour, The Golden Thread and The Race to the Future.
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Journalism.
Kassia writes essays, criticism, profiles and long reads for newspapers and magazines.
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Talks.
Find out more about upcoming in-person and online talks.
About.
Kassia St. Clair is based in London and is Britain’s bestselling historian under 40. Her first book, The Secret Lives of Colour, is a top-ten bestseller, was selected as Radio 4′s Book of the Week and has been translated into twenty languages. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Sunday Times Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Somerset Maugham Award. Her third book, The Race to the Future, is out now in the UK; it will be published in the US in 2024.
Features, interviews, essays and reviews have appeared in the Economist, the Telegraph, Architectural Digest, the TLS and Wired; she had a colour column in Elle Decoration for seven years. You can see a selection of her published work on the journalism page.
An accomplished speaker, Kassia has given talks at international venues including the Dallas Art Museum, Hay Festival, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Soho House and for brands including Chanel, Farrow & Ball and Christie’s. She has contributed to NPR, BBC Radio 4, and CNN. In 2018 she created an exhibit for Color Factory, New York. To find out more, visit the Talks and TV | Radio pages.
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