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Amanda Vickery (born 1962, Preston, Lancashire) is a British historian, writer, radio and television presenter, academic reviewer, and professor of Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London.

Education

Amanda Vickery graduated from the former Bedford College, London (now part of Royal Holloway, University of London) where she completed her PhD in Modern History.^[1]

Career

Vickery 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.

Writing

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]

Television

Vickery has contributed to a number of Open University history programmes for the BBC.

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.^[7]

Vickery has appeared on "The Review Show" on BBC Two, as on September 30, 2011.

Radio

Vickery is a regular contributor to a number of arts, history, and cultural review programmes for BBC. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, Saturday Review, and Start the Week.

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 March 2011 she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.^[17]

Books

• The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (1998)
• [ed.] Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 (2006)
• Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (2009)

References

External links

• Official website
• Review of At Home With The Georgians, Leicester Mercury