Catherine Haste, Baroness Bragg (6 August 1945 – 29 April 2021)[1] was an English author, biographer, historian and documentary film director, who worked freelance for major television networks in the UK and US over a period of 40 years.
She directed Flashback TV's Hitler's Brides[5] about women in Nazi Germany; produced Death of a Democrat in Secret History, the series broadcast by Channel 4;[6] and Married to the Prime Minister,[7] presented by Cherie Blair, the wife of the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
"[8] Maureen Freely wrote that Rules of Desire (1997) was "as diverting and as suggestive as a very good novel.... temperate, balanced, subtle and humane".
[9] The Daily Telegraph critic wrote that Nazi Women: Hitler's Seduction of a Nation (2001) "opens up the bizarre moral universe of the Third Reich ....at once comprehensible and compelling, and at times deeply moving.
"[10] The prize-winning Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint (2010), a biography/monograph of the Cumbrian Expressionist landscape painter, signalled Haste's shift to biography and was, according to Andrew Lambirth, "a handsome, slim volume ....elegantly and deftly put together".