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<\/a><\/p>\nElizabeth McKellar is Professor Emerita in Architectural History at the Open University having previously held posts at Birkbeck College, London and the Victoria and Albert Museum, where she was Head of Higher Education. \u00a0She specialises in British architecture and culture and urbanism, particularly that of London.\u00a0 She is the author of many books and articles including:\u00a0The Birth of Modern London: the development and design of the city 1660-1720\u00a0<\/em>(MUP, 1999);\u00a0Articulating British Classicism: New Approaches in Eighteenth-Century Architecture\u00a0<\/em>(Ashgate, 2004);\u00a0Neo-Georgian Architecture\u00a01880-1970: a reappraisal<\/em>\u00a0(Historic England, 2016); and\u00a0Landscapes of London: the City, the Country and the Suburbs 1660-1840\u00a0<\/em>(YUP, 2013).\u00a0 She held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2011-12 to research the latter book which was the winner of the Society of Architectural Historians (US) Elisabeth Blair Macdougall Award 2017.\u00a0 She has previously been a member of the Editorial Board of\u00a0The London Journal<\/em>, The London Record Society and a member of Historic England\u2019s London Advisory Committee.\u00a0 She is currently the President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and is writing a cultural biography of Sir John Summerson, for which she was awarded a Paul Mellon Senior Fellowship in 2018-19 and a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship for 2021-23.<\/p>\n