Elizabeth Jamieson

Elizabeth Jamieson is Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, and is also an independent researcher and furniture historian. She is currently researching and cataloguing the National Trust's collection of over one hundred horse-drawn vehicles, the results of which will be published by Yale University Press in 2016. Over the past nine years she has carried out furniture surveys and written numerous in-depth research reports for the National Trust. The surveys were competed prior to new guidebooks being published, and the in-depth reports have assisted the Trust in re-presenting different showrooms, informing large-scale conservation projects, and in preparing Heritage Lottery Fund applications. Lizzy was formerly a member of the English Furniture Department at Sotheby's from 1997-2003, where she was responsible for researching the furniture for the Bond Street saleroom, as well as for the top lots in the country house and single-owner sales. She was in charge of developing and maintaining the archive, which included extensive records on English houses, furniture makers and furniture types.  Before working for Sotheby's Lizzy worked for Partridge Fine Arts and the National Portrait Gallery. She has an MA in Computer Applications and a BA from the University of East Anglia. Lizzy is Council Member and Hon Newsletter Editor for the Furniture History Society and has been Co-Director of the Attingham Summer School since 2012.