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Anna Keay is a historian and broadcaster, and Director of building conservation charity the Landmark Trust.
Born in the West Highlands of Scotland, Anna was educated at Oban High School in Argyll and Bedales in Hampshire.
Anna read history at Magdalen College, Oxford, where she won two academic scholarships and has a PhD on the reign of Charles II from the University of London.
From 1996 to 2002 Anna worked as a curator for Historic Royal Palaces, which looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, Kew Palace and the Banqueting House in Whitehall.
From 2002 until 2012 she was Curatorial Director of English Heritage, responsible for curating and presenting to the public 420 historic sites across England, from Stonehenge to Kenwood House.
Below: Anna with the restoration man himself, George Clarke, another of our GREAT BRITISH SPEAKERS team!
She is now Director of The Landmark Trust, and as such responsible for major building restoration projects across the UK.
As one of the country’s leading female TV historians her work has included commentary on the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and the State Opening of Parliament for the BBC. She presented Restoring Britain’s Landmarks Great British Buildings: Restoration of the Year for Channel 4.
Below: Great British Speakers Dr Anna Keay with fellow Great British Speaker Kevin McCloud both judges of Great British Buildings Restoration of the Year
Anna is a Governor of Bedales School and a member of the National Trust Collections and Interpretation Advisory Group.
She is a popular and eloquent speaker from a wide variety of historical periods and a passionate conservationist.