Clare Mulley

Mulley contributes to TV and radio , e.g. 'BBC2, Rise of the Nazis (2019); BBC1 D-Day 75 (2019); BBC1 Newsnight (2019); Channel 4, David Jason's Secret Service; Channel 5 Adolf and Eva: Love and War, and radio e.g. The Today Programme, PM, Women's Hour, Great Lives.

Mulley writes and reviews non-fiction for The Telegraph, The Spectator, and History Today. She was Chair of the Judges for the Historical Writers Association 2017 Non-Fiction Crown.

Mulley's most recent work, "The Women Who Flew for Hitler" was published by Macmillan in the UK and St Martin's Press in the US, in 2017.

In 2017 she was Chair of the judges for the Historical Writers Association Non-Fiction Crown.

Mulley is an honorary patron of the Wimpole History Festival, and a regular speaker and chair at many Literary and History Festivals. In 2017 she gave a TEDx talk at Stormont, and she has lectured at the House of Lords, Imperial War Museum, National Army Museum, Special Forces Club, University Women's Club and British Library. She is a historian guide for the travel company Historical Trips.

Before writing, Mulley worked with Save the Children and Sightsavers International, raising charitable donations on behalf of the organisations. She has also served as a member of the advisory board of the World Development Movement, a British NGO which campaigns on issues of global justice and development in southern countries identified according to the global North–South divide, and as a trustee of the national charity, Standing Together against Domestic Violence.

The biography has now been published in Britain, the USA (St Martin's 2013), Poland (Swiat Ksiazki, 2013), Hungary and China.

In 2013 Mulley was awarded with the Bene Merito honorary distinction by the then Foreign Minister of the Republic of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski.

In 2012 Macmillan published Mulley's biography, The Spy Who Loved: the Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War II.

Her first book, The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb (Oneworld, 2009) won the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club Prize, and was republished in 2019 to mark the centenary of Save the Children. The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain's First Female Special Agent of the Second World War (Macmillan, 2013) has been widely translated, and optioned by Universal Studios. Mulley's third book, The Women Who Flew for Hitler (Macmillan, 2017), is a joint biography of two women at the heart of the Third Reich but who ended their lives on opposite sides.

The biography was published in 2009, to coincide with the 90th anniversary of Save the Children and the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The book was published to critical acclaim and then-UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown called it a "truly brilliant book". Reportedly, Brown read the book while away on holiday and was moved to offer the unsolicited review.

In 1999, while working for Save the Children, Mulley was introduced to the life of Victorian-era British social reformer Eglantyne Jebb. Her biography, The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb (Oneworld, 2009) won the Daily Mail Biographers' Club Prize.

Clare Margaret Mulley (born 1969) is an English award-winning biographer.

Clare Mulley was born in 1969 in Luton, England. In 2006 she graduated from the University of London with a distinction for her master's degree in Social and Cultural History. Her dissertation was on Affection or Affectation: The Role and Rhetoric of Maternalism in the Development of Women's Social Action in Victorian Britain.