Lizzie Rogers

I am a historian of eighteenth-century gender history, collecting and the English country house.

My PhD research focused on the collecting practices, curiosity and learning of elite women within the eighteenth-century country house, and how this can be read as part of wider intellectual currents and cultures. I am interested in objects, conversations and relationships, and how the social and material aspects of the Enlightenment could enable elite women to shape their own spaces of knowledge creation, curation and exchange.

I have been successfully examined on my thesis at the University of Hull, where I also completed my BA and MRes, specialising in History of Art and Gender History.

Alongside my research, I have volunteered with the National Trust, Girlguiding UK and the University of Hull Art Collection, where I conducted tours, ran the social media and had chance to speak to media outlets. I also spent a summer as a Curatorial Intern at Stratford Hall in Virginia, researching and creating an online exhibition of the Margaret Law Collection.

I write more generally about art, museum history, books, period drama and Jane Austen, and run my own history blog.