Experience

• I hold an MA in Victorian Art & Architecture from the University of London
• I am an experienced historical researcher delivering projects to professional standards. I have extensive experience in accessing and utilising archival resources across the UK and overseas
• I am experienced in researching fine and decorative art collections. I can offer provenance research; historical research on a particular artwork; advice on collections care; inventory and cataloguing projects; or buying at auction. I have advised private clients on a variety of fine art research projects.
• My specialist interests include 19th and 20th century art & design, Anglo-Indian decorative art, the Arts & Crafts Movement and the Art Deco period; and social history
• My vast experience enables me to appraise works of art, source on your behalf, give advice on cataloguing and collections care, research an artwork, or track down that special piece to complete your interior
• I also have over 20 years' experience working in the heritage and museum industry, including freelance consultancy, for the following:

- Royal Collection Trust

- Historic Royal Palaces

- Society of Antiquaries of London

- Farley's House & Gallery: Home of the Surrealists Lee Miller & Roland Penrose

- Kelmscott Manor

- DrJenner's House Birthplace of Vaccination

- Gloucester Cathedral

- The Churches Conservation Trust

- Visit Bristol

- Southernhay House Hotel, Exeter

- Wellcome Trust

- Private clients

Voluntary museum consultancy::

- Newhaven Fort

- Shoreham Fort

Museum & Heritage Experience

I have been privileged to manage three internationally important museums in England: 

Dr Jenner's House Birthplace of Vaccination in Gloucestershire; Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire, the former home of Arts & Crafts Pioneer, William Morris; and Fishbourne Roman Palace, Britain's largest Roman home in Britain & Britain's oldest planted gardens located in West Sussex.

I am an experienced curator, for example, I worked at Historic Royal Palaces as a curator for over ten years in the Works of Art department covering Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, Kew Palace, the Banqueting House, and HM Tower of London. During this time I managed a three-year cataloguing project encompassing the entire palaces' collections of fine and decorative arts, and architectural and archaeological artefacts. I also became the Lead Curator on a major exhibition utilising 8 years of my research. 

I have also worked for the Royal Collection Trust covering Buckingham Palace; The Royal Mews London; Clarence House; The Queen's Gallery London; Windsor Castle; Palace of Holyrood, Scotland; and The Queen's Gallery, Holyrood.

In 2014-2015 I was appointed Trustee of The Cheltenham Trust: The Wilson – Gloucestershire’s premier Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham Town Hall, Pittville Pump Room, Leisure at Cheltenham and the Prince of Wales Stadium. I stepped down due to relocation.

Awards

- WINNER Gold Award Best Small Visitor Attraction, Cotswold Tourism, Kelmscott Manor

- Travelzoo International Excellence Award, Best Attraction or Activity , Kelmscott Manor

-  FINALIST Guardian's Top Five UK's Most Inspiring Museum/Heritage Attraction Museum & Heritage Awards 2014; 2015 , Kelmscott Manor

- FINALIST Best Small Visitor Attraction, South West Tourism, Dr Jenner's House

-  FINALIST Clore Award for Museum Learning 2011 , Dr Jenner's House

-  Visitor Assured Quality Attraction award (VAQAS 2010-12), Dr Jenner's House      

I have significant experience of the media including appearances on: 

- BBC Tales from the Palaces 

- BBC The One Show

- BBC The One Show Live from Hampton Court Palace 

- BBC Escape to The Country

- BBC Inside Out

- BBC A History of the World: Jenner's Marvellous Medicine

- BBC Bargain Hunt

- BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour 

- BBC Radio London

- LBC Radio  

- Talk Radio

- The UN (Pan American Health Organization)

I have written a range of publications and articles involving original research, including:

• Ghosts in the Attic: from Smallpox to MMR (Wellcome Trust)
• The Edward Jenner Museum & the History of Vaccination (Clinical & Experimental Immunology; co-author, A.J Morgan Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol, UK)
• Grace and Favour: The Hampton Court Palace Community, 1750-1950; ISBN-10: 1873993552; ISBN-13: 978-1873993552
• Grace & Favour: A handbook of who lived where in Hampton Court Palace 1750 to 1950; ISBN 1 873993 50 1 
• History Today The Quality Poorhouse Volume 55