Elizabeth McKellar is an architectural historian specialising in seventeenth and eighteenth-century British architecture and culture. She has a particular interest in London’s history and buildings and is a member of the Editorial Committee of the London Journal. She is currently researching the relationship between city and country in London’s hinterlands in the long eighteenth century for a book to be published by Yale University Press. She also writes regularly on architectural historiography particularly that of the late nineteenth and twentieth century. She has previously held posts at the University of North London, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Birkbeck College.
Elizabeth McKellar has supervised a number of research students and particularly welcomes applications in the areas of: architectural history - especially British and early modern; urban history; and British eighteenth-century cultural history.
Teaching contributions to Open University courses include a section on Pugin for AA100 The Arts Past and Present. She has been involved with the development of the new Heritage Studies strand, now launched as A180 Heritage, whose heritage? and is writing for the new second level course AD281 Understanding Global Heritage. She is also a course team member of A216 Art and its Histories and the forthcoming remake of this course.
The Birth of Modern London: the development and design of the city, 1660-1720, (Manchester University Press, 1999)
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Co-editor with Barbara Arciszewska, Articulating British Classicism: New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Architecture, Aldershot & Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2004
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‘C. H. B. Quennell (1872-1935): Architecture, History and the Quest for the Modern’, Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 50, 2007, 211-46
‘Representing the Georgian: Constructing Interiors in Early Twentieth Century Publications, 1890-1930’, Journal of Design History, 20:4, 2007, 325-44
‘Popularism versus professionalism: John Summerson and the twentieth-century creation of the “Georgian”’, in Barbara Arciszewska and Elizabeth McKellar (eds), Articulating British Classicism: New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Architecture, (Ashgate, 2004), 35-56
‘Peripheral Visions: alternative aspects and rural presences in mid-eighteenth century London’, Art History, 22:4, 1999, 495-513
‘The City and the Country: the London vernacular in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century’, in Neil Burton (ed.), Georgian Vernacular, (The Georgian Group, 1996), 10-18
‘Architectural History: The Invisible Subject’, The Architecture Journal, 1:2, 1996, 159-64
See also Open Research Online for further details of Elizabeth McKellar’s research publications.
