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Lecture

Catherine Ostler and Trudy Gold
The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal

Wednesday 19.08.2026

How to watch

This lecture starts on 19 August at 7:00pm (UK).

Summary

Catherine Ostler’s new book, The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal is available here.

Catherine Ostler

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Catherine Ostler is an author and journalist who has been Editor-in-Chief of Tatler, the English Standard (London), the Evening Standard magazine (London), and Editor of The Times (London) Weekend. She has also written for a wide range of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph (London), the Financial Times, and Vogue. She studied English at Oxford University. Her first book was the critically acclaimed The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London. Her new book, The Renoir Girls is available here.

Trudy Gold

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Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.