Amanda Vickery

On 30 January 2015 Vickery received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Arts at Uppsala University, Sweden.

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.

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

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. and The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen (2011). These were produced by Matchlight for screening on BBC Two.

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

In 2009, she wrote and presented the 30-part series A History of Private Life on BBC Radio 4, which received critical acclaim. It has since been made into a BBC CD.

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 Wolfton History prize and the Longman-History Today prize. She co-edited 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 was well received by Kathryn Hughes and Dominic Sandbrook.

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