Anna Parker

Anna is a historian and writer. She is Past & Present Fellow at the Institute for Historical Research, University of London, where her work focuses on central Europe, the home and visual/material culture. She has a PhD in History from Cambridge – where she occasionally teaches – and previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Society for Renaissance Studies.

She has written for the Times Literary Supplement, Granta and ArtReview, among others.

Anna was a London Library Emerging Writer for 2020-1, and was winner of the 2020 British Czech and Slovak Writing Prize and the 2020 German History Society Essay Prize.