Dr Cathryn Spence Author

Dr Cathryn Spence is a museum professional, lecturer and historic gardens consultant. She is currently researching the eighteenth-century artist Thomas Robins, in preparation for a substantial monograph on the painter and his patrons to be published in 2018. She is the Curator of Archives at the American Museum in Britain and was previously Director of the Building of Bath Museum, now the Museum of Bath Architecture. She has also worked at the National Portrait Gallery and the V&A Museum. In addition to her work as a consultant, Cathryn is also an independent researcher, her specialism being the architectural, cultural and social history of Georgian Britain. She wrote a regular monthly column for several years for The Bath Magazine; much of the research undertaken for those articles served as the basis for the four books she has published with The History Press.