Emily Brand
Author, Historian, Genealogist
Emily is an author & historian specialising in the long eighteenth century, especially the trials and tribulations of romantic (and not-so-romantic) relationships in England.
More info
*BBC Radio 4
Book of the Week*
*A Sunday Times
Book of the Year*
*A Mail on Sunday
Book of the Year*
*A BBC History Magazine
Book of the Year*
*Sunday Times
Best Paperbacks of 2021*
Ask me about the history of...
Love & Romance * Sex * Marriage & Divorce
* Lord Byron & his Family *
Courtship & Seduction * Jane Austen
*'Fallen Women' & C18th Sex Work*
Women's Lives * Family History
* Georgian & Regency England *
World Monuments Fund lecture:
Newstead Abbey, 2020
PODCASTS
Make-Up: A Glamorous History, with Lisa Eldridge
BBC2, April 2021
Pandemic-era authoring!
Virtual launch party for The Fall of the House of Byron
at the #HouseOfByron youtube channel
Guide to Finding a Husband in 18th-century India
Collaboration with FindMyPast & the British Library
Contact
For media or literary enquiries, please contact Kirsty McLachlan at
If you would like to say hello or ask about Emily's existing work, and for enquiries about public talks or consulting, please use the form below.