I gained a first in Art History at Leicester University in the early 1980s. After a year working with adults with special needs, I studied for a PhD at the Warburg Institute in London under the supervision of the late J.B. Trapp. My subject was the life and building activity of Richard Fox, an Early-Tudor bishop of Winchester and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After completing my PhD, I took a break from academe, to concentrate on raising my children. Though I continued to research in spare moments and also took the opportunity to give talks in schools on historical subjects.

Before moving to Somerset, I spent more than a decade teaching mature learners in Lifelong Learning for Leicester University, taking students on field trips and teaching undergraduates for the Department of History of Art & Film. I also devised and delivered a number of undergraduate modules for Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln in connection with the Heritage Degree programme. Those modules included an architectural and cultural history of the English country house and a survey of English church art and architecture. In between teaching commitments, I have worked as a researcher for the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE), liaising with museum staff in the Midlands and cataloguing their holdings. I have also led art history classes for Remit, a scheme organised by Leicester City Council for adults with mental health issues.

I became an accredited lecturer for the Arts Society (formerly NADFAS) in 2006 and have travelled widely speaking to groups in the UK and further afield. In 2012 I was invited by ADFAS to Australia for a lecture tour. I have led a number of cultural tours across Spain for the Sydney-based company, Academy Travel and have lectured for several cruise lines including Fred Olsen. I regularly lecture in aspects of art history at Dillington House near Ilminster and have had had spots talking history on both radio and tv.

I have published articles and reviews in scholarly journals on a diverse range of subjects including Thomas More, early Tudor stained glass and Netley Abbey. My research for NICE culminated in a number of online entries and I contributed sections to two CD Roms produced for the Christianity and Culture Project at the University of York . A friend and I formed our own publishing company, The Book Forge, through which we launched three books: A Timeline for Family Historians, A Timeline of Art History and also a history of the Leicestershire village in which I lived for 12 years. The Timeline for Family Historians has been revised and extended and published in 2021 by Pen & Sword publishing.  An edition of the late medieval building accounts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was published by Boydell and Brewer for the Oxford Historical Society in 2018.

I live with my husband in a small hamlet in Somerset, where we are engaged on our own grand design: rebuilding two old barns and developing a smallholding. If you are interested in seeing our progress, take a look at our blog. The link is:

 angie9138.wixsite.com/barn-again

When I have a spare moment, I enjoy spending time with friends, reading, listening to music, sewing, watching films and I am a keen genealogist.