Amanda to give the First Annual Lecture of the Centre for Studies of Home
Join Amanda for her event, entitled 'Family Life Makes Tories of us All: Love and
Power at Home in Georgian England' (6pm, 22 November, click here for more details)
At Home with the Georgians airs in the US!
Amanda Vickery's hit TV show At Home with the Georians will be showing
on American Public Television this Autumn.
Amanda's new BBC2 series, December 2011
The Many Lovers Of Miss Jane Austen. Blog comment on the series from Austen Only
More information from the BBC
coming soon
BBC Radio 4 | Series Two, 27th July - 17 August
Part 1. Riots, 27th July 9am/9.30pm
Part 2. Sexual Subcultures, 3rd August 9am/9.30pm
Part 3. Servants, 10th August 9am/9.30pm
Part 4. Whose Law Was it Anyway?, 17th August 9am/9.30pm
Find out more from the BBC website
Produced by Elizabeth Burke, with music arranged by David Owen Norris.
A History of Private Life
(BBC Audio, 2009)
'[The] very essence of good radio'
- Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph
Presented by award-winning historian Professor Amanda Vickery. Here we have men behaving badly, adultery on the sofa, servants running amok, witches, poltergeists, burglars, bashful bachelors, glamorous widows, bedbugs, pots and pans. This is original research embellished with readings from letters, diaries and court records as well as recreations of previously unrecorded songs. The result is a vivid picture of home life from the 16th - 20th centuries.
The six weekly topics : A Private Space, Running the Home, Visitors at Home, Those without Homes, Showing off, Escaping the Home.
In Our Time (3 episodes)
Taste | Politeness | Tea
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of Politeness. A new idea that stalked the land at the start of the eighteenth century in Britain, Politeness soon acquired a philosophy, a literature and even a society devoted to its thrall. It may seem to represent the very opposite now, but at that time, when Queen Anne was on the throne and The Spectator was in the coffee houses, politeness was part of a radical social revolution.
How did the idea of politeness challenge the accepted norms of behaviour? How did a notion of how to behave affect the great wealth of eighteenth century culture?
With Amanda Vickery, Reader in History at Royal Holloway, University of London; David Wootton, Professor of History at the University of York; John Mullan, Senior Lecturer in English at University College London.
Behind Closed Doors has been shortlisted for the Longman / Pearson History Today 'Book of the Year' Prize. The winner will be announced in January. Behind Closed Doors was also highly commended by the judges of the Hessell-Tiltman prize & described as 'outstanding in every way'
The Gentleman's Daughter (Yale, 1998), won the Whitfield prize, the Wolfson prize and the Longman- History Today prize.
Praise for Behind Closed Doors
"Vickery is that rare thing an academic historian who writes like a novelist ... an enthralling slice of domestic history." Daily Mail
"Amanda Vickery breathes new life into 18th century society." Sunday Telegraph
"A sparkling and erudite work from one of our best historians." Daily Telegraph
"Behind Closed Doors is both scholarly and terrifically good fun. Worth staying at home for." Sunday Times
Praise for The Gentleman's Daughter
"A lively and engrossing, sometimes funny study of 18th
century genteel women. Serious history is rarely this
much fun." - Financial Times
"This scholarly, self-assured work is both a major
contribution to the study of women in eighteenth-century
England and a delight to read."
- Jeremy Black, History Today
" The Gentlemans Daughter is written with charm and
suffused with wry commentary that testifies to Vickerys
intimacy with her subjects. It is both an academic triumph and a spell-binding read."
- Julie Wheelwright, Independent
"Innovative, expertly researched and luminous in style."
- Linda Colley, London Review of Books
"It is an engrossing book. At one level it can be enjoyed for the vivid social detail that it purveys - the absolute stuff of history."
- Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times
"A graphic, voice-filled study of Lancashire gentry." - The Observer
Find out more about The Gentleman's Daughter
"Simon Schama possibly excepted, television has never before seen so exuberant a history presenter: Vickery enthuses about her Georgians like soap-opera characters and treats the viewer as a confidante" - Sunday Times
"[At Home with the Georgians] is a fascinating three-parter… With a little discreet dramatisation, these people come vividly alive, often in surprising ways. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that Georgian house-hunting was such an emotionally charged process, and driven less by women than by men" - Daily Mail
"Vickery is that rarity among historians: A skillful and elegant writer... Vickery retains a noticeable Lancashire accent as well as an unselfconscious directness that makes her a powerful and engaging communicator, as effective on the screen as on the page."
- History Today
"In history… the study of homes and home life has undergone a revolution in the past few decades. One of the leading figures in that revolution is Amanda Vickery. Who can resist a book that describes one diarist as a confirmed grumbletonian. One would have to be a confirmed grumbletonian indeed not to find enlightenment – and pleasure – on every page of this book."
- Judith Flanders,
The Sunday Telegraph
"Amanda Vickery makes a delightful study of these roles and homes and draws from a huge range of period sources as she delves into the lives both of the rich and of the everyday Georgian. This book takes an unstarchy look at domestic life in Georgian England and is full of delicious detail."
- House and Garden
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Backwards in High Heels
"[Vickery] has got into her subjects' shoes - she knows how they think and what they feel: the codes by which they live, their aspirations, their values - and she tells the Georgian story with vivacity, with wit and wry asides, her commentary informed by her scholarship and meticulous research but also by her own engaging personality."
"It is quite brilliant. It is all Lord Reith ever wanted: informative, educational and entertaining. It is aesthetically rich, historically revelatory, and surprisingly moving. There is a bit about Jane Austen towards the end which actually made me cry."
"Amanda Vickery fleshes out a nuanced and often shocking portrait of the Georgian home to create a vivid portrait of 18th-century lives as they were lived: at home, in bed, in the Parlour of Venus, and in secret chambers of all kinds."
- Sarah Bakewell, Independent
" Amanda Vickery is a naughty, clever, humourous eavesdropper on the past… She has the Georgians in her sights like no one since Jane Austen".
- Sunday Telegraph
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