Amanda Vickery

I was born and raised in Preston, Lancashire. Growing up in a matriarchal mill town where wives historically worked out of the house as well as in, fostered my love of social and economic history, and fascination with the warp and woof of work and family, power and emotion. Truth to tell, life in a cotton town also inspired a life-long love of clothes.

My latest research project is 'What Women Wanted. Women’s Hopes in Britain, 1945-c.1970'. I have delivered some of the fruits of this work in the Wiles Lectures (link is external) in 2019 and the Lisa Jardine Lecture (link is external) in 2020.

I have wide interests in the history of British society and culture, gender and family, words and objects.

The history of women and men
love and power
Consumerism and fashion
Objects and space
Art and architecture
The Georgians
Post-war British society and culture