Dr Tessa Murdoch FSA worked at the Museum of London 1981-1990 and at the V&A 1990-2021. Recent and forthcoming publications are Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture (V&A, 2021) and as consultant Great Irish Households: Inventories from the long eighteenth century (John Adamson, 2022). For Bloomsbury, she is co-editing with Dr Heike Zech A Cultural History of Craft in the Age of Enlightenment for publication 2024
Tessa advises the National Trust and the National Heritage Memorial Fund, serves the Arts Council England as member of the Acceptance in Lieu panel, is a Board Member of the Idlewild Trust, and Acting Chair of Trustees of the Huguenot Museum.
