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Adrian Tinniswood

Adrian Tinniswood
Adrian Tinniswood is senior research fellow in history at the University of Buckingham and the author of the forthcoming Behind the Throne as well as New York Times bestselling The Long Weekend and The Verneys, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Tinniswood has contributed to the London Times, the New York Times, History Today, BBC History Magazine, and The Literary Review, as well as television and radio programs in the US and UK. He was awarded an OBE for services to heritage by her majesty, the Queen, and lives in Bath, England.


On the End of Debutante “Presentation Parties” at Buckingham Palace

Princess Margaret: “We had to put a stop to it. Every tart in London was getting in.”
September 23, 2021  By Adrian Tinniswood
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London’s Royal Society: 17th-Century Boys Club or Font of Knowledge?

Trial, Error, and Some Very Misguided Experiments
July 8, 2019  By Adrian Tinniswood
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