Juliet Gardiner

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Juliet Gardiner (born 24 June 1943)

British social history from Victorian times through to the 1950s. She is a former editor of History Today magazine, a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, and an honorary fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and at the University of Edinburgh. She has taught at Middlesex University and Oxford Brookes University.[2] Gardiner has also worked as a publisher for Weidenfeld & Nicolson
. Since 2001 she has been a full-time writer.

Early years

In her autobiography Gardiner writes that she was born as "Olivia" to an unmarried mother from Italy. At the age of two she was adopted by a Hemel Hempstead sanitary inspector called Charles Wells and his wife Dolly. Her new parents renamed her "Gillian".[3]

Work

Her books include Wartime: Britain 1939-1945 (Headline, 2004) which recounts the history of the Home Front during

Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, The Guardian
and BBC History.

Gardiner's book on 1930s Britain, The Thirties: An Intimate History, was published by HarperCollins in 2009.[4] Its purpose was, as Gardiner herself has explained, to take the structure of the 1930s, formed over the years by political and economic historians, and "fill in as many details as possible" about how people lived their lives during that period.[5]

Gardiner's most recent[

ISBN 978-0-007240777
).

In 2012, Gardiner wrote and presented a series for BBC Radio 4 entitled The History of the Future a series of ten programmes exploring how cultures of the past viewed the possibilities of the future.[6]

Personal

On 18 February 1961, she married George Gardiner, a British Conservative Party politician and journalist.[7] During the next couple of years she stopped being "Gillian" and became "Juliet".[3] She would later describe being married to a Conservative politician as being "like a vicar's wife who doesn't believe in God".[3] There were three recorded children, but in 1980 the marriage ended in divorce.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. 24 June 2014. p. 35.
  2. ^ Home page at University of Edinburgh School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Centre for the History of the Book
  3. ^ a b c Valerie Grove. "Joining the Dots: A Woman in Her Time by Juliet Gardiner (book review)". Oldie Publications Ltd., London. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  4. ISBN 978-0-00-724076-0
  5. ^ Juliet Gardiner in History Today, April 2010
  6. ^ BBC Radio 4. "The History of the Future". BBC. Retrieved 18 September 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  8. ^ Gardiner, Sir George (Arthur). A & C Black, London. 2001. p. 752. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

External links

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