About
I am a historian, author and broadcaster with over 1.6 million followers on social media.
I am passionate about history! Through my publications, broadcasting work and social media platforms (@history_with_amy) I am committed to bringing history to life in an engaging and exciting way.
I am a regular expert contributor, having appeared in numerous documentaries including ‘Mayhem! Secret Lives of the Georgian Kings’ (Sky History, forthcoming) and ‘Buckingham Palace with Alexander Armstrong’ (Channel 5, 2023).
I attained my PhD in architectural history from the University of Cambridge. My thesis explored the architectural patronage of women in eighteenth-century Britain. After completing my doctoral thesis, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Queens' College, Cambridge.
I have worked in a curatorial capacity at Holkham Hall, Goodwood House and Woburn Abbey. I have also worked as a research consultant for the National Trust at Stowe Landscape Gardens and for Historic Royal Palaces at Kensington Palace. I was recently a Senior Properties Historian for English Heritage.
I served as the chair of the Young Georgians and as a trustee of the Georgian Group for many years.
My debut book Hidden Patrons: Woman & Architecture in Georgian Britain (Bloomsbury, 2023) has received rave reviews. I am now working on my second book Decadence & Display (Yale University Press) which explores the exciting world of the eighteenth-century country house dining room!
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