Amanda Jane Vickery was born on 8 December 1962 and is an English historian, writer, radio and television presenter, and professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London.
12 Facts About Amanda Vickery
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Amanda Vickery graduated from the former Bedford College, London, where she completed her PhD in Modern History.
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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.
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Amanda Vickery holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala.
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Amanda Vickery is winner of the Longman History Today prize, the Whitfield Prize and the Wolfson History Prize.
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Amanda Vickery 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.
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Amanda Vickery has presented At Home with the Georgians, a three-part television series based on her book Behind Closed Doors.
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Amanda Vickery is a regular contributor to arts, history, and cultural review programmes broadcast by BBC Radio.
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Amanda Vickery has appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, Saturday Review, and Start the Week.
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Amanda Vickery makes programmes for Radio 4 through independent production company Loftus Audio.
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On 30 January 2015 Amanda Vickery received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Arts at Uppsala University, Sweden.
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Amanda Vickery was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2021.