NEWS! My next trade history book Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London, 1843-1913 (Profile Books) will be out in November 2025.
I specialise in British history and art (an expert in the 1745 Jacobite Rising and British 18th-century painting, notably the work of William Hogarth and Joseph Highmore see British Art Network) and an advisor/consultant for museums, historic buildings, film and TV, including Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner (2014), Peterloo (2018) and Wash Westmorland’s Colette (2018). Among my current projects, I am advising on a forthcoming Hogarth exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and a TV drama based on Chris Bryant’s 2020 non-fiction book The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought Hitler. Please contact me via jacqueline1697@gmail.com if you have a project you would like to discuss.
Hear me talking about an 18th-century art hoax on Lucy Worsley’s new podcast Lady Swindlers available now via BBC Sounds and discussing the 1745 Jacobite Rising and the Battle of Culloden with William Dalrymple and Anita Anand on their Empire podcast (broadcast 24 & 26 September 2024).
See “Recent News & Events” on this home page for details on my books Hogarth’s Britons (Paul Holberton 2023), Hogarth: Life in Progress (Profile Books 2021), Peterloo (Head of Zeus 2018), Basic Instincts (Paul Holberton 2017) and Jacobites (Bloomsbury 2016). To support your local bookshop you can buy them online via Hive or in your local bookshop! For all trade-book related enquiries please contact my literary agent Bill Hamilton at AM Heath.
For the second year running I am a judge on the Historical Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Award. For updates on the 2024 prize including long and short lists click here. I am the literary editor for the international The Art Newspaper and review books for this title, Country Life and BBC History Magazine.
