Rosemary Hill

Rosemary Hill
Hill in 2022
Born10 April 1957
London, England
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge, University of London
Occupation(s)writer, historian and independent scholar

Rosemary Hill FRSL, FSA (born 10 April 1957) is an English writer, historian and independent scholar who specialises on the cultural history of the 19th- and 20th-centuries.

Early life

Hill was born on 10 April 1957 in London, England.[1]

She studied English Literature at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1979. She achieved her PhD from the University of London in 2011.[2]

Career

Hill has published widely on antiquarianism and the cultural history of the romantic period of the 19th- and 20th-centuries, but is best known for God's Architect: Pugin and the building of Romantic Britain (2007), her biography of Augustus Pugin. The book won the Wolfson History Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize,[3] the Elizabeth Longford Prize, and the Marsh Biography Award.[4]

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010.[5]

Hill is a trustee of the Victorian Society,[2] a contributing editor to the London Review of Books,[6] and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[2] She was a member of the English Heritage Blue Plaques Panel from 2014 to 2022.[2]

In 2023, Hill was a Visiting Fellow at Melbourne University's department of Architecture Building and Planning.[2]

Personal life

Hill has been married twice. Her first husband was the poet Christopher Logue (1926–2011), whom she married in 1985;[7] and her second was the architectural historian and journalist Gavin Stamp (1948–2017), whom she married on 10 April 2014.[8]

Select publications

Books:[2]

  • Time’s Witness: History in the age of Romanticism (Allen Lane) (2021)[9][10][11]
  • Stonehenge (Profile) (2008)[12][13]
  • God’s Architect: Pugin and the building of Romantic Britain (Allen Lane) (2007)[2]

References

  1. ^ "Birthdays", The Guardian, p. 37, 10 April 2014
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Dr Rosemary Hill Independent scholar BA, MA, FRSL, FSA". All Souls College, Oxford. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  3. ^ "List of James Tait Black Award Winners" Archived 2007-01-15 at the Wayback Machine University of Edinburgh website, accessed October 29, 2010
  4. ^ "Rosemary Hill". Penguin. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  5. ^ "Hill, Rosemary". Royal Society of Literature. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
  6. ^ "Rosemary Hill". The London Review of Books. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  7. ^ Espiner, Mark. Obituary: Christopher Logue. The Guardian. 3 December 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2025,
  8. ^ Banns read in St Giles church Camberwell and St Augustines Crofton Park.
  9. ^ Pettitt, Clare (30 July 2011). "The antiquarian pursuit of 'non-verbal' history". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  10. ^ "Sarah Watling - Relics, Ruins & Worm-eaten Things. Time's Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism By Rosemary Hill". Literary Review. June 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  11. ^ Stammers, Tom (21 September 2021). "The past and the curious". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  12. ^ "Book Extract: Stonehenge by Rosemary Hill". Stonehenge Stone Circle News and Information. 8 January 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  13. ^ "Book Extract: Stonehenge by Rosemary Hill". The Independent. 7 June 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
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