Amanda Vickery

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Amanda Jane Vickery (born December 8, 1962 ) is an English historian , writer, radio and television presenter and professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London .

Life and academic career

Vickery was born in Preston , Lancashire , England and attended Penwortham Girls' Grammar School. She graduated from the former Bedford College, London (now part of Royal Holloway, University of London ), where she did her PhD in Modern History .

Vickery is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, and has held academic positions at Royal Holloway, University of London and Churchill College, Cambridge . She was visiting professor at Stanford University and California Institute of Technology . She received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University . She is a recipient of the Longman History Today Prize , the Whitfield Prize, and the Wolfson History Prize . Her academic interests span the late modern period from the seventeenth century to the present with a strong emphasis on the Georgian period in England.

Publications

Vickery wrote mainly on social history , literature, the history of romanticism and parliamentarianism, politics, law and crime with an emphasis on women's studies and feminism . Her first book was The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (1998), for which she received the Whitfield Prize, the Wolfson History Prize and the Longman History Today Prize. She was co-editor of Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 (2006), followed by Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (2009). The book received positive reviews from Kathryn Hughes and Dominic Sandbrook .

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Vickery has presented several historical programs for BBC Two . Her three-part Story of Women and Art was shortlisted for a Scottish Bafta. She presented At Home with the Georgians (2010), a three-part television series based on her book Behind Closed Doors. based and The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen (2011). These were produced by Matchlight for broadcast on BBC Two.

Together with Alistair Sooke, Vickery presented Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball (2013). The one-off episode recreated a Regency Ball, the social event held in the heart of Pride and Prejudice to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the novel's publication.

Vickery works mainly with Tom Service . They have jointly presented three documentaries that combine music and history with Reef Television, about Messiah at the Foundling Hospital , La Traviata and Leningrad & the Orchestra That Defied Hitler . Messiah at the Foundling Hospital won the Czech Crystal Prize and was shortlisted for an Emmy.

broadcast

Vickery is a regular contributor to arts, history and culture programs broadcast on BBC Radio . She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 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, which was critically acclaimed and has since been released on CD.

Since 2010 she has hosted the three series of the history show Voices from the Old Bailey on BBC Radio 4. She also produced programs for BBC Radio 4 through the independent production company Loftus Audio.

In March 2011, she was a guest on Private Passions , a biographical music discussion show on BBC Radio 3 .

Works

Books

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year title channel
2010 At Home with the Georgians BBC Two
2011 The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen BBC Two
2013 Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball BBC Two
2014 Messiah at the Foundling Hospital BBC Two
2014 The Story of Women and Art BBC Two
2015 La Traviata: Love, Death and Divas BBC Two
2015 Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power BBC Two
2016 Leningrad & the Orchestra That Defied Hitler BBC Two

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Amanda Vickery - Preston's history woman (with audio). Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Amanda Vickery - personal website. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  3. ^ Royal Holloway, University of London: Department of History. (No longer available online.) May 26, 2010, archived from the original on May 26, 2010 ; accessed on January 12, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ Styles, John., Vickery, Amanda .: Gender, taste, and material culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 . Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT 2006, ISBN 978-0-300-11659-5 .
  5. ↑ Kathryn Hughes: Behind Closed Doors by Amanda Vickery | Book review . In: The Guardian . October 23, 2009, ISSN  0261-3077 (English, theguardian.com [accessed January 12, 2020]).
  6. ^ Dominic Sandbrook: History books of the year . November 26, 2009, ISSN  0307-1235 (English, telegraph.co.uk [accessed January 12, 2020]).
  7. ↑ a b BBC Two - At Home with the Georgians. Retrieved January 12, 2020 (UK English).
  8. ↑ a b BBC - The Many Lovers Of Miss Jane Austen - Media Center. Retrieved January 12, 2020 (UK English).
  9. ↑ BBC Radio 4 Extra - Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life. Retrieved January 12, 2020 (UK English).
  10. ↑ Gillian Reynolds: Radio review: Amanda Vickery, Nicky Campbell, Richard Bacon and more . October 19, 2009, ISSN  0307-1235 (English, telegraph.co.uk [accessed January 12, 2020]).
  11. ^ Euan Ferguson: Desert Island Discs and A History of Private Life | Radio review . In: The Observer . October 3, 2009, ISSN  0029-7712 (English, theguardian.com [accessed January 12, 2020]).
  12. ↑ A History of Private Life, Radio 4Night Waves, Radio October 3, 4, 2009, accessed on January 12, 2020 .
  13. ^ Elisabeth Mahoney: The Beauty of Britain | Radio review . In: The Guardian . October 6, 2009, ISSN  0261-3077 (English, theguardian.com [accessed January 12, 2020]).
  14. ↑ BBC Radio 4 - Voices from the Old Bailey - Episode guide. Retrieved January 12, 2020 (UK English).
  15. ↑ Voices from the Old Bailey, Radio 4Beyond Belief, Radio July 4 , July 18, 2010, accessed January 12, 2020 .
  16. ↑ | Loftus Media |. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  17. ↑ BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions. Retrieved January 12, 2020 (UK English).
personal data
SURNAME Vickery, Amanda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vickery, Amanda Jane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English historian, writer, radio and television presenter and professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1962