About me:
I am a director at Storey Communications and proud founder of community heritage project BabiesinMuseums.com a not-for-profit organisation which champions the contributions the heritage industry can make to parental mental health and early years development.
My contribution to public history and the heritage industry includes 10 years leading the events and heritage engagement team at Lambeth Palace, supporting senior leadership teams through capital projects and project managing acclaimed temporary exhibitions. I support heritage organisations and museums on a freelance basis and specialise in communications and commercial strategy, marketing and community engagement projects.
I research and write about the history of pregnancy, within the context of dress, motherhood and elite culture in eighteenth century Britain. This is the first in-depth research into the history of maternal experience and the embodiment of pregnancy within the context of early modern western Europe. I use my role as a researcher specialising in the history of pregnancy and motherhood as a platform to advocate for the needs and rights of women and mothers today.
I am a PhD candidate in the History Department at Exeter University and my groundbreaking research is disrupting the world of dress history and the history of motherhood. I hope that my research will inform policy surrounding pregnancy and the maternal body in the 21st Century.
If you would like to collaborate on a project, have a question or would like to know more about pregnancy in the past please get in touch.
Ask me about:
- museum communities and maternal wellbeing
- What eighteenth century maternity clothing can teach us about slow fashion and adaptable clothing
- The culture surrounding pregnancy and motherhood in the eighteenth century and today
CV Highlights:
Postgraduate convenor of British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar Series at the Institute of Historical Research 2023 – 2024.
PhD candidate in History begun in September 2022. My PhD supervisor is Prof. Helen Berry
Founder of heritage engagement project Babies in Museums since 2019
Conferences and Programme at The Costume Society since 2018
Director at Storey Communications since 2013
Hall Place Historic House and Gardens 2016 – 2017
Head of Events and Heritage Engagement at Lambeth Palace 2007-2016
Special Exhibitions at Lambeth Palace Library Treasures of Lambeth Palace Library 2010, Out of the Original Sacred Tongues 2011 and Royal Devotion 2012.
M.Litt in History from Newcastle University 2007
BA (Hons) in History from Newcastle University 2004
Amy Wilson 