| Amanda Vickery | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 Preston, Lancashire, UK |
| Residence | London |
| Citizenship | British |
| Fields | Modern history |
| Institutions | Queen Mary, University of London |
| Alma mater | Bedford College, London |
Amanda Vickery (born 1962, Preston, Lancashire) is a British historian and television presenter.
She graduated from the former Bedford College, London (now part of Royal Holloway, University of London) where she completed her PhD in Modern History.[1] She is professor of Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London and has held academic posts at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of York. Her academic interests encompass the Late Modern period from the seventeenth century to the present with a strong emphasis on the Georgian period in England.
She has written widely on social history, literature, the history of romance and the home, politics, law and crime with an emphasis on women's studies and feminism.
In 1998 she published her first book The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England, for which she received the Whitfield prize, the Wolfton History prize and the Longman-History Today prize.[2]
In 2006 she co-edited Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830.[3]
In 2009, Vickery authored Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England to wide critical acclaim.[4][5][6]
In March 2011 she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.[7]
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Vickery has contributed to a number of Open University history programmes for the BBC and has appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.
In 2009 she wrote and presented the 30-part series A History of Private Life on BBC Radio 4,[8] which received critical acclaim.[9][10][11][12] It has since been made into a BBC CD.[13]
In 2010, she presented the four-part BBC Radio 4 history series Voices from the Old Bailey.[14][15] Vickery makes programmes for Radio 4 through independent production company Loftus Audio.[16]
In November 2010 she presented At Home with the Georgians, a three-part television series for BBC Two based on her book Behind Closed Doors.[17] Amanda Vickery has also appeared on "The Review Show" (the programme on a Friday night on BBC Two after Newsnight) as on September 30, 2011.