Women's Annual Lecture
The annual Women's Lecture will take place at 5.15pm in the New College Chapel, on Thursday 12th March 2026. It is open to New College Old Members.
The lecture will be given by New College Old Member and international bestselling author, Kate Mosse, CBE FRSL. The lecture will last approximately one hour.
To watch the livestream of the talk please click the following link to the New College Choir You Tube Channel.
We would also be very pleased to welcome Old Members who wish to attend in person; to register your place at the event, please email the New College Development Office on oldmembers@new.ox.ac.uk or telephone 01865 279509.
Due to it being term time, there will be no parking available so we would advise arriving on foot. Should you have mobility problems, please let us know, so that we can see what might be possible.
About the speaker:
Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, performer, interviewer and writer of history and memoir. The author of twelve novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel), the No 1 bestselling Joubert Family Chronicles (The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship, The Map of Bones) and Gothic fiction The Taxidermist’s Daughter and The Winter Ghosts. Her highly-acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries and her first YA non-fiction book Feminist History for Every Day of the Year. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign, Kate is also a trustee of the British Library, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors and a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. She was awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours list 2024.
