Adrian Tinniswood


Adrian John Tinniswood FSA is an English writer and historian. He is currently Professor of English Social History at the University of Buckingham.
Tinniswood studied English and Philosophy at Southampton University and was awarded an MPhil at Leicester University. He was a regional chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund and a member of the National Trust's Council and its Regional Committee for the South-West, and has served as a trustee on a number of boards, including the Bishop's Palace Wells, Bath Preservation Trust and the Holburne Museum. He is currently a trustee of the Leeds Castle Foundation and a member of the Cathedral Council and of the Fabric Advisory Committee, both at Wells Cathedral.
Tinniswood has often acted as a consultant to the National Trust, and has lectured at several universities in both the United Kingdom and United States, including the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham's Humanities Research Institute and Director of Buckingham's Country House Studies programme.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to heritage.

Selected works

Historic Houses of the National Trust Belton House, Lincolnshire Country Houses from the Air Life in the English Country Cottage Travels with Pevsner 1 &2 Visions of Power: Architecture and Ambition from Ancient Rome to Modern Paris A History of Country House Visiting ; later published by the National Trust of London as The Polite Tourist: A History of Country House Visiting His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean The Rainborowes: Pirates, Puritans and a Family's Quest for the Promised Land The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars Mount Stewart, County Down: A Souvenir Guide. Swindon: National Trust