Amanda Vickery

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. 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.[3] She co-edited Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 (2006)[4] followed by Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (2009). The book was well received by Kathryn Hughes and Dominic Sandbrook.[5][6]

Vickery has presented several history programmes for BBC2. Her three part Story of Women and Art was shortlisted for a Scottish Bafta. She has presented At Home with the Georgians (2010), a three-part television series based on her book Behind Closed Doors.[7] and The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen (2011).[8] These were produced by Matchlight for screening on BBC Two.[7][8]

With Alistair Sooke, Vickery co-presented Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball (2013). The one-off episode recreated a regency ball, the social event at the heart of Pride and Prejudice, to mark the 200th anniversary of the novel's publication.

Vickery enjoys working with Tom Service. They have co-presented three documentaries linking music and history with Reef Television, on Messiah at the Foundling Hospital, La Traviata, and Leningrad & the Orchestra That Defied Hitler. Messiah at the Foundling Hospital won the Czech Crystal award and was shortlisted for an Emmy.

Vickery is a regular contributor to arts, history, and cultural review programmes broadcast by BBC Radio. 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,[9] which received critical acclaim.[10][11][12][13] It has since been made into a BBC CD.[14]

Since 2010, she has presented the three series of the BBC Radio 4 history programme Voices from the Old Bailey.[15][16] Vickery makes programmes for Radio 4 through independent production company Loftus Audio.[17]

In March 2011, she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.[18]

• The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (1998) ISBN 0300102224
• Women, Privilege, and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present (2001) ISBN 0804742847
• [ed.] Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 (2006) ISBN 0300116594
• Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (2009) ISBN 0300168969