Madeleine Pelling | |
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 Pelling giving a lecture in 2019 | |
| Born | Madeleine Lucy Pelling 1990s |
| Other names | Maddy Pelling |
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Madeleine Lucy Pelling FRHistS (born 1990s), also credited as Maddy Pelling, is an English cultural and art historian. As of 2023, she co-hosts the History Hit podcast After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal with Anthony Delaney. Her debut book Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-century Britain was published in 2024.
Pelling grew up in Leek, Staffordshire. [1] Pelling graduated from with a Bachelor of Art (BA) in English from the University of York in 2014. [2] On a History of Art Department scholarship, she completed a PhD at the York in 2018. [3]
After completing her PhD, Pelling held Postdoctoral Fellowships at institutions including the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the University of Birmingham's Eighteenth Century Centre, [4] and the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH). [5]
Through the Georgian Papers Programme, Pelling co-curated the 2019 virtual exhibition Women and History: Power, Politics and Historical Thinking in Queen Charlotte's Court with Karin Wulf. [6] From 2021 to 2022, Pelling co-hosted podcast Travelling Sisterhood of Art Historians with fellow art historians Freya Gowrley, Serena Dyer and Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth. [7] She also co-hosted Coffee House Perspectives with Adam J Smith for the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS). [8]
In October 2023, History Hit launched the podcast After Dark, which Pelling co-hosts with Irish historian Anthony Delaney. [9] [10] [11] Pelling and Delaney were jointly nominated for Best New Presenter at the 2024 Audio and Radio Industry Awards (ARIAs), [12] while After Dark won Rookie of the Year at the 2024 True Crime Awards [13] and was shortlisted for the Listeners' Choice Award at the 2025 British Podcast Awards. [14]
Pelling also featured in the Channel 4 docuseries The Queens Who Changed the World (2023) [15] and Titanic in Colour (2024), as well as the Sky History docuseries Mayhem! Secret Lives of the Georgian Kings (2024). [16]
Via Profile Books, Pelling's debut book Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-century Britain was published in 2024. [17] [18] Alice Loxton selected Writing on the Wall for the BBC History Best History Books of 2024. [19]
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