Christina Hardyment read history at Newnham College, Cambridge, and has twice held the Alistair Horne Historians’ Writing Fellowship at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. She is a writer and broadcaster with wide interests, and lives in Oxford.
Books in order of publication:
1983: Dream Babies: child care from Locke to Spock London: Cape, reprinted in 2012 as Dream Babies: child care from Locke to Gina Ford, London Francis Lincoln
1984: Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint’s Trunk London: Jonathan Cape
1988: From Mangle to Microwave: the mechanization of household work Cambridge: Polity Press
1992: Home Comfort: A History of Domestic Arrangements London: Viking and the National Trust
1995: Slice of Life: the British way of Eating Since 1945, London: BBC Books
2005: Malory : the knight who became King Arthur’s chronicler London: HarperCollins
2010: University of Oxford: The Official Guide, University of Oxford.
2012: Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands London: British Library
2013: The World of Arthur Ransome: Frances Lincoln,
2015: Pleasures of the Table London: British Library
2016: Writing the Thames, Bodleian Library
2018: Novel Houses’, Bodleian Library
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