Professor Elizabeth Goldring, FSA FRHistS (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) Honorary Professor

My research interests are interdisciplinary, often straddling the boundaries between art, literature, and history. Areas of particular expertise include: Tudor painting; 16th- and 17th- century court culture; England and the Continental Renaissance; portraiture and biography; and the reception of Tudor art and literature from the 17th century to the present. I am a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Member of the Burlington Magazine's Consultative Committee, and a Member of the Athenaeum's Works of Art Committee. I regularly contribute long-form pieces on art to The London Review of Books.

My latest book, Holbein: Renaissance Master, was published in November 2025 by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art/Yale Press. It was selected by The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The New Statesman, Country Life, The Tablet, The New World, Church Times, and Engelsberg Ideas as a 'Book of the Year' for 2025. Other recent projects include an exhibition of Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits, Miniatures from the Bearsted Collection (Philip Mould & Co., London, 19 November - 19 December 2025), for which I served both as Specialist Consultant Advisor and as co-author of the accompanying catalogue, published in November 2025 by Yale Press in conjunction with Paul Holberton Publishing.

Virtually all of my publications are rooted in new archival or object-based discoveries. My book Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (PMC/Yale, 2019) won the Apollo Book Prize and was short-listed for three other major awards: the William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art History, the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and the Richard Schlagman Art Book Award ('best contribution to art history'). Other books include Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art (PMC/Yale, 2014), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art History; and, as General Editor, John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources (Oxford, 2014), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Reference, the MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition, and was named a TLS 'Book of the Year'.

I am committed to bringing the past to life for the widest possible audience. I have discussed my research in interviews with The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Country Life, and BBC History Magazine, among other publications; and on radio and television programmes such as Radio 4's 'Today' Programme, Radio 3's Hark! An Acoustic Archaeology of Elizabethan England, Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr, Times Radio's On This Day in History, Sky Arts's Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, BBC1's Who Do You Think You Are, BBC 4's Lucy Worsley's Fireworks for a Tudor Queen, and Channel 5's Digging Up Britain's Past.

Watch this space - or follow me on Instagram @elizabeth.goldring - for details of upcoming events relating to my latest book, Holbein: Renaissance Master.

LINKS

Books (written and edited): https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/books

Chapters in Books: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/chaptersinbooks 

Book and Exhibition Reviews: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/reviews/

Articles: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/articles/

Editions of sixteenth and seventeenth-century texts: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/editions

Encyclopaedia and dictionary entries: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/encyclopaedia

Awards (inc. prizes, grants, fellowships): https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/awards/

Conferences (inc. guest lectures, seminars, public appearances): https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/conferences/ 

Media (inc. TV, radio, newspapers, podcasts, blogs): https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/media/

Museum & Heritage work: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/museumheritage

Miscellaneous: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/misc