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Elizabeth McKellar

Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor
BA Modern History (Oxford), MSc Architectural History (London), PhD (Royal College of Art)

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 was a member of the Editorial Committee of the London Journal from 2000-2010. She received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2011-12 to complete her book Landscapes of London: the City, the Country, and the Suburbs 1660-1840  which is to be published to be published by Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in October 2013. She also writes regularly on architectural and design historiography particularly that of the late nineteenth and twentieth century. She is currently researching histories and perceptions of Neo-Georgian architecture and design and is one of the co-editors of a forthcoming international volume on the subject. She has previously held posts at 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, a chapter on the contemporary presentation of Blenheim Palace to AD281 Understanding Global Heritage, as well as a section on ‘The Metropolitan Urban Renaissance: London 1660-1760’ for course A226 Exploring Art and Visual Culture.

elizabeth.mckellar@open.ac.uk

Selected Publications

Books

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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Articles

‘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.

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