Jacqueline Riding Author

Dr Jacqueline Riding specialises in British history and art of the long eighteenth century. Formerly curator of the Palace of Westminster and Director of the Handel House Museum, she is the award-winning author of Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre and Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion, as well as a consultant for museums, galleries, historic buildings and feature films. She was the historical adviser on Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner (2014), Peterloo (2018) and Wash Westmoreland's Colette (2018). Jacqueline is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Department of History of Art at the University of York and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and is a trustee of the Jacobite Studies Trust and Turner's House, Twickenham. She lives in South London.