Dr Anna Whitelock is a lecturer in early modern history at Royal Holloway, University of London. She lectures on political, social and cultural history in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and is director of the MA Public History.
She gained her Ph.D. from Corpus Christi College Cambridge under the supervision of Dr David Starkey. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Anna is the prize-winning author of Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen (Bloomsbury 2009) (US- Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen (Random House 2010). She was the winner of the 2010 Arts Club Emerging Writer Award and was short-listed for the Biographer’s club Best First Biography Prize.
Anna writes and reviews for The Telegraph, The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, BBC History magazine, History Today and The New York Times. She regularly appears in the media to talk about heritage and public history, the Tudors, monarchy, royal bodies and other aspects of political and social history.
Anna has appeared on Channel 4′s Timeteam, BBC 2′s Newsnight, Radio 4′s Making History and Radio 3′s Nightwaves and commentated on the royal wedding for a number of international news programmes. She has recently appeared in the BBC One series The Manor Reborn and is completing her next book Bedfellows to be published by Bloomsbury next year.
Anna is an accomplished public speaker and regularly gives talks lectures in schools, museums, history societies and literary festivals. She lives in Cambridge.