Jacqueline Riding

Dr Jacqueline Riding specialises in British history and art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Formerly Assistant Curator at the Palace of Westminster and Director of the Handel House Museum, she is the Book Reviews Editor for The Art Newspaper, a consultant for museums, galleries, historic buildings, and historic adviser on feature films including Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner and Peterloo and Wash Westmoreland's Colette. Her books include Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion, Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre, Hogarth: Life in Progress and Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin's London.