Adrian Tinniswood

Adrian Tinniswood OBE FSA is the author of eighteen books on social and architectural history, including Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House; Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household; The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller; His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren and The Verneys: a True Story of Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England, which was shortlisted for the BBC/Samuel Johnson Prize. He is currently Professor of British Cultural History at the University of Buckingham and Adjunct Professor of History At Maynooth University. He and his wife Helen live in the West of Ireland.