Dora Thornton Author & Editor

Pippa Shirley is Head of Collections and Gardens at Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust house managed by the Rothschild Foundation in Buckinghamshire which is home to the Rothschild Collections of art and decorative arts. Before this she was a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, specialising in silver, and at the British Museum, working on the medieval collections. Dr Dora Thornton works at the British Museum as Curator of the Waddesdon Bequest and Renaissance Europe. She specialises in and and has published widely on Renaissance Italy. Most recently she curated the British Museum exhibition, Shakespeare: Staging the World. She is now working on a new permanent gallery for the Waddesdon Bequest, which will open in 2015.