Judith Miller (antiques expert)
Judith Henderson Miller was a Scottish antiques expert, writer, and broadcaster.
Early career
Born Judith Henderson Cairns in Galashiels, Scotland, Miller first began collecting antiques while studying history at the University of Edinburgh. In 1979, she co-wrote the Miller's Antiques Price Guide with her first husband, Martin Miller, whom she had married the year before, and had two children with.Television presenter
Miller worked as a consultant to and co-presenter of eight series of The Antiques Trail, run on ITV. She had also presented It's Your Bid for the Discovery Channel. She was a regular expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, and also appeared on Priceless Antiques Roadshow.Miller co-presented The House Detectives on BBC Two.
Journalism and lecturer
Miller was a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines including BBC Homes & Antiques, where she wrote a four-page feature on "Starting a Collection". She also wrote the antiques column for The Scotsman magazine and a monthly feature for the Financial Times weekend supplement "House and Home". She was the antiques and collecting columnist for The Daily Telegraph. Miller was also the antiques agony aunt with Antiques and Collectables magazine. She wrote a monthly feature in Canadian Home and Country magazine and was a regular contributor to US Traditional Home and Country Living.Miller also regularly lectured at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Smithsonian.
Publishing and select bibliography
In 2001, Miller embarked on a joint venture with Dorling Kindersley to publish two full-colour annual price guides to antiques and collectables, a series of specialist collectors guides and price guides beginning with costume jewellery. In 2007 she returned to Miller's, an imprint of Octopus Books.Personal life and death
After her marriage to Martin Miller ended in divorce in 1992, Miller began a relationship with John Wainwright, and they had one son. The family lived in North London as of 2004. Miller and Wainwright married in 2015.Miller died at a hospital in North London on 8 April 2023, at the age of 71.