Jacqueline Riding

Riding graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History from the University of Leicester, a Master of Arts (MA) in History of Art from Birkbeck, University of London and a PhD from the University of York. ==Career==

Riding worked as the former curator of the Palace of Westminster before becoming Director of the Handel House Museum. In 2016, she published Jacobites: A New History of the ’45 Rebellion. In 2018, she published Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre. In 2021, she published Hogarth: Life in Progress, which was the Sunday Times Art Book of the Year. In 2023, she published Hogarth’s Britons. Colette (2018), Gwen (2018) and Prizefighter (2022). She is a trustee of Sandycombe Lodge and the Jacobite Studies Trust. She is a writer of the Historical Writers Association. ==Published works==