Matthew Dennison
Research Associate

Profile

Biography

Matthew Dennison's life of Caroline of Ansbach, The First Iron Lady, was published by William Collins in 2017. The first full-length biography since the Second World War of Britain's first Hanoverian queen consort, it drew on primary sources from archives across Europe, including the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, and examined Caroline's role in anglicising the Hanoverian succession, as well as the role of the consort in late-Baroque and early-eighteenth-century court culture.

Matthew is the author of nine other biographies, published in more than twenty languages and adapted for radio and, in one case, as a ballet, a former Costa Prize judge and, previously, Douglas Jerrold Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford.

His postgraduate research explored porcelain hyacinth-growing vessels produced by the Sevres factory in the 1750s.