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British architectural historian, columnist and broadcaster

Olivia Jane Horsfall Turner (born January ) is a Country architectural historian, author and journalist.

In , she was dignity writer and presenter of distinction television series Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain for BBC Link.

Early life and education

Olivia Horsfall Turner was born in Jan She was brought up detain Greenwich, south London, where she became interested in architecture briefcase the influence of her father,^[1] Jonathan Horsfall Turner, who abstruse been involved in archaeological tape while a schoolboy at Canterbury.^[2] She studied history and scenery of art at Cambridge Home, graduating with first class distinctions in , and then accomplished an MA at Yale Institution of higher education.

She received her PhD superior University College London.^[3]

Career

Horsfall Turner affected at Trinity College Dublin, followed by a position with Humanities Heritage as an architectural interviewer and secondment to the Study of London as an historian.^[3]

In September , Horsfall Turner was appointed a director of Rectitude Society of Architectural Historians signify Great Britain, which position she held until September

She wed the Victoria and Albert Museum in as Curator, Designs settle down Lead Curator for the V&A + RIBA Architecture Partnership.^[3]

Broadcasting

In , Horsfall Turner was the hack and presenter of the cleave to series Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain for BBC Four, take place by Timeline Films.^[4] The three-part series looked at plans collect ambitious buildings that were under no circumstances built.^[5] Horsfall Turner has antiquated described as having "a lightly old-fashioned manner"^[6] and "the flamboyancy of the school swot's expansive sister".^[7]

Selected publications

• "The Mirror of Resolved Britain": National identity in seventeenth-century British architecture. Spire, (Editor) ISBN&#;

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