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Katherine Lack originally trained as an agricultural scientist at Oxford, where she took her doctorate in 1985. Later she studied medieval and modern history, obtaining a second doctorate from Birmingham University. This diverse background led her to explore the links between superficially different subjects. The three years she spent living with her family in Gibraltar gave insights into the creative tensions between cultures and religions, and it was while working as a guide at Lincoln Cathedral that she discovered an enthusiasm for sharing her knowledge with others.

Dr Lack is the author of three books of medieval biography, each of which also traces a European journey and its historical context. This was followed by a book on civilian internment diaries from the Second World War. More recently she has written up an innovative project linking historical research to mental health recovery. This project was also described in a Blog produced by participants. 
After a pause to ghost-write and edit the life of a remarkable man who worked as chief engineer at an early twentieth-century asylum and oversaw the Wartime Emergency Hospital built in its grounds, she returned to more familiar territory. Her comparative history of Herefordshire farmers and farming was posthumously published by Logaston press in November 2021.

As well as these books, Katherine Lack has written several academic papers and contributed to a variety of other conferences and publications. She also lectured widely, and led tours and field visits to sites of historic and spiritual interest, in Britain and Europe.

Katherine died in July 2021 after a short illness.

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