Juliet Gardiner

Juliet Gardiner is a British historian. Gardiner is a former editor of "History Today" magazine, and a respected commentator on British social history from Victorian times through the 1950s.She has been Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and was an honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University and previously taught at Middlesex University and Oxford Brookes University. [ [http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb/JulietGardiner.htm Home page at University of Edinburgh School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures] Centre for the History of the Book.] Gardiner has also worked as a publisher for Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Since 2001 she has been a full time writer

Work

Her her most recent books include "Wartime: Britain 1939-1945" (Headline, 2004) which tells the story of the Home Front during the Second World War. She also wrote the books to accompany the Channel 4 television series The 1940's House (2000) and The Edwardian Country House (2002), and three books linked to exhibitions at London's Imperial War Museum, 'From the Bomb to the Beatles' (1999) "The Children's War: The Second World War Through the Eyes of the Children of Britain" (2005) and "The Animals' War: Animals in Wartime from the First World War to the Present Day" (2006). Gardiner was also the editor of "Who's Who in British History" (2000, Collins & Brown), the "History Today" Companion to British History" (1996, Collins & Brown) with Neil Wenborn and 'The Penguin Dictionary of British History' (2000) She acted as historical consultant to the film of 'Atonement' and is a frequent broadcaster on radio and televison, a reviewer and a contributor to the national press, including the Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian and BBC History. She is currently writing a book on 1930s Britain to be published by HarperCollins in 2009.

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