Estelle is a historian and an Assistant Professor in History. She is the author and editor of five books. Her latest book, Blood, Fire, and Gold has been named “Best History Books of 2022” in History Today, “10 Best History Books of 2022” Smithsonian Magazine, Amazon’s Editor Pick for “Best History Books of the Month” (December), Best Books Summer 2022 (The Times), Book of The Week (18 June 2022, The Times).
She completed her PhD in Early Modern History at University College London in 2016. She turned her PhD into a monograph that was published in November 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan Elizabeth I of England Through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558-1588.
Books in order of publication:
Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens – 2017
Elizabeth Through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen 1558-1588 (Palgrave Macmillan, published November 2018)
Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Political Agency, Myth-Making, and Patronage, co-edited with Dr Valerie Schutte (Routledge, published in October 2018)
Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France: Reputation, Reinterpretation, and Reincarnation – 2019
Blood, Fire & Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici – 2022
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