Rosemary Hill | |
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![]() Hill in 2022 | |
Born | 10 April 1957 London, England |
Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge, University of London |
Occupation(s) | writer, historian and independent scholar |
Rosemary Hill FRSL, FSA (born 10 April 1957) is an English writer, historian and independent scholar who specialises on the cultural history of the 19th- and 20th-centuries.
Hill was born on 10 April 1957 in London, England. [1]
She studied English Literature at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1979. She achieved her PhD from the University of London in 2011. [2]
Hill has published widely on antiquarianism and the cultural history of the romantic period of the 19th- and 20th-centuries, but is best known for God's Architect: Pugin and the building of Romantic Britain (2007), her biography of Augustus Pugin. The book won the Wolfson History Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, [3] the Elizabeth Longford Prize, and the Marsh Biography Award. [4]
Hill is a trustee of the Victorian Society, [2] a contributing editor to the London Review of Books , [5] and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. [2] She was a member of the English Heritage Blue Plaques Panel from 2014 to 2022. [2]
In 2023, Hill was a Visiting Fellow at Melbourne University's department of Architecture Building and Planning. [2]
Hill has been married twice. Her first husband was the poet Christopher Logue (1926–2011), whom she married in 1985; [6] and her second was the architectural historian and journalist Gavin Stamp (1948–2017), whom she married on 10 April 2014. [7]
Books: [2]