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Welsh historian, author and travel writer (1926-2020)

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Catharine Jan Morris was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She was known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968-1978), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, including Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong and New York City.

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2015Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
1999Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1960Heinemann Award
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

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Catharine Jan Morris was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She was known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968-1978), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, including Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong and New York City. She published under her birth name until 1972, when she had gender reassignment surgery, transitioning from male to female.

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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deceased
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Lived 1926 to 2020 · aged 94
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20 languages

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