My latest book Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London (Profile Books) was published in February 2026. Details, endorsements and reviews here

My next book Gainsborough and Reynolds: The Art of Rivalry in Georgian London will be published by Yale on 23 February 2027.

I specialise in 18th and 19th century British History and Art. I am Book Reviews Editor for The Art Newspaper and a consultant for museums, galleries, historic buildings, TV and feature films. I was the advisor on Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner (2014) and Peterloo (2018). My books include Jacobites: A New History of the ’45 Rebellion (Bloomsbury 2016, paperback 2017), Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre (Head of Zeus 2018, paperback 2019), Hogarth: Life in Progress (Profile Books 2021, paperback 2022) the Sunday Times Art Book of the Year and Hogarth’s Britons (Paul Holberton Publishing 2023) which accompanied my major exhibition at Derby Museum & Art Gallery (10 March to 4 June 2023). My literary agent is Bill Hamilton A. M. Heath and for all freelance and consultancy enquiries please contact me via jacquelineriding1697@gmail.com