Rosemary Hill

Rosemary Hill is a writer and historian. Her biography, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (2007) won the Wolfson History Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize and the Marsh Biography Award. In 2008 she published a prize-winning study of Stonehenge and its cultural legacy. She is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books, a visiting professor at the University of York, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society of Literature, and a quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Books by Rosemary Hill

Time's Witness

Rosemary Hill

A brilliant exploration of how our understanding of the past was transformed between the French Revolution and the Great Exhibition by a band of long-forgotten antiquaries

God's Architect

Rosemary Hill

A brilliant debut biography of the great architect and designer, the inventor of the Gothic Revival in England, and now revealed for the first time as the designer of Big Ben and much of the Houses of Parliament.