Tessa Dunlop

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Tessa Dunlop
Born1974 (age 5051)
Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland
EducationPitlochry High School, Strathallan School
Alma mater St Hilda's College, Oxford (BA);
Sheffield Hallam University (MA, PhD)
Occupation(s) Historian, author, TV broadcaster
Children2 daughters
ParentDonald Dunlop (1940–2009)
Relatives Dunlop baronets
Websitewww.tessadunlop.com

Tessa Dunlop FRHistS (born 1974 in Scotland) is a British historian, writer and broadcaster.

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She has written several history books based on oral history, and presented history programmes for the BBC, Channel 4, Discovery Channel, UKTV History and the History Channel.

Background and education

Dunlop's father was Donald Henry Dunlop (1940–2009), only son of the physician Sir Derrick Dunlop.

After Pitlochry High School, Dunlop attended the private Strathallan School, another school in Perthshire, [1] before reading history at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she won the 1995 Gertrude Easton Prize for History. [2] She then pursued further studies in Imperialism and Culture at Sheffield Hallam University graduating as MA, before receiving a PhD degree in 2020 for her thesis entitled Representations of Romania in British Public and Political Discourse, 1907–1919. [3] [4]

Career

After university, Dunlop joined London radio station LBC, then BBC London 94.9. [5]

In 2005, Dunlop was named Regional Television Personality in the Royal Television Society's West of England Awards for her work on the regional magazine show Inside Out West. [6] In 2007, Dunlop filmed Paranormal Egypt, an eight-part series with Derek Acorah on location in Egypt. In 2011, she became one of the presenters in BBC2's BAFTA-winning Coast series, and she has since presented several history series. [7]

Dunlop writes oral history books focused on women, war and the royal family. Titles include The Bletchley Girls, The Century Girls, (a Sunday Times best seller) and most recently Elizabeth and Philip and Army Girls. [8]

The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History (2018) describes, with quotations from interviews, the lives of six women born in or before 1918: Olive Gordon, Joyce Reynolds, Ann Bauer, Phyllis Ramsay, Helena Jones, Edna Cripps. [9] [10] [11]

In March 2025, Dunlop launched the podcast Where Politics Meets History with LBC host Iain Dale. [12]

Personal life

In 2005, Dunlop married a Romanian; they live in London and have two daughters. She struggled to conceive and has written about her experiences with miscarriage and IVF. [13]

Publications

References

  1. Dunlop, Tessa (13 October 2017). "Sorry if I don't sound Scottish enough for you". inews.co.uk.
  2. "Colleges, Halls and Societies". Oxford University Gazette No. 4367. University of Oxford. 8 June 1995.
  3. "Tessa Dunlop". BBC2 Coast. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  4. Dunlop, Tessa (14 May 2020). Representations of Romania in British Public and Political Discourse, 1907–1919 (doctoral thesis). Sheffield Hallam University.
  5. "Tessa Dunlop comes back to BBC London 94.9FM". BBC. 22 March 2002.
  6. "West of England Awards 2005". Royal Television Society. 11 January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  7. "BBC Two - Coast - Tessa Dunlop". BBC. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  8. Dunlop, Tessa (9 January 2022). Army Girls. Headline. ISBN   9781472282095 . Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  9. "Book review: The Century Girls, by Tessa Dunlop". The Scotsman. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  10. "Woman's Hour, Margot Robbie, Young Women and Home Ownership, The Century Girls". BBC. 19 February 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  11. Dunlop, Tessa (2018). The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History. Simon & Schuster UK. ISBN   978-1-4711-6133-9 . Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  12. "Iain Dale & Dr Tessa Dunlop to host bi-weekly podcast from Global". Global. 3 March 2025. Archived from the original on 6 April 2025. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  13. Dunlop, Tessa (17 February 2018). "'I put my head on her knee and cried': what my 102-year-old friend taught me about grief". the Guardian. Retrieved 3 March 2025.