From the Classroom to the BBC
Amanda Vickery is professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London, and has held academic posts at Royal Holloway, University of London and Churchill College, Cambridge. She has been visiting professor at Stanford, Munich, and the California Institute of Technology. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala. She is winner of the Longman History Today prize, the Whitfield Prize and the Wolfson History Prize. 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.
Vickery is a regular contributor to arts, history, and cultural review programs broadcast by BBC Radio and television and has written extensively on social history, literature, the history of romance and the home, politics, law and crime with an emphasis on women's studies and feminism.