Speakers’ profiles:
Loyd Grossman, Chairman, The Heritage Alliance
Loyd Grossman is a writer and presenter whose work, broadcast and in print, reflects his
lifelong interest in history, arts and heritage. Loyd was educated at Boston University, the
London School of Economics and Cambridge. After working as a journalist for Harpers &
Queen and the Sunday Times, he moved into television as a writer, presenter and producer
on programmes ranging from Through the Keyhole to A History of British Sculpture. He has
served as a Commissioner for English Heritage, a founding member of the Museums,
Libraries and Archives Council and as the founder of the 24-Hour Museum, now Culture24.
He is a powerful ambassador for the independent heritage movement. In 2007 he was
appointed Chairman of The Churches Conservation Trust, and in 2009 Chairman of The
Heritage Alliance which represents some 90 non-governmental and voluntary organisations
working in the heritage sector
Dr Anna Whitelock, Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr Anna Whitelock is the author of Mary Tudor: England's First Queen (Bloomsbury, 2009)
and Elizabeth's Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen's Court (Bloomsbury, May
2013). She lectures on political, social and cultural history in the sixteenth and seventeenth
century and is director of the MA Public History and Director of Centre for Public History,
Heritage and Engagement with the Past. This new Centre runs an MA course for those
wishing to pursue a career in history working in broadcasting or in film, in museums, heritage
or in journalism..
Anna writes and reviews for The Telegraph, The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, BBC
History magazine, History Today and The New York Times. Anna regularly appears on the
TV channels as a royal expert, historical consultant and commentator in such programmes as
The Manor Reborn (BBC1), The Queen’s live jubilee pageant (BBC1), and The British (Sky
Atlantic). She wrote and presented Heritage Wars on BBC Radio 3 and was one of the
contributing historians on BBC Radio 4′s landmark series The Art of Monarchy.
Dr John Goodall, Architectural Editor, Country Life
As the architectural editor of Country Life, John is responsible for writing and commissioning
the celebrated series of architectural features published in the magazine every week. John
has been involved in various television series on history and architecture. He was the series
consultant for the BBC1 television series on architecture presented by David Dimbleby, The
Way We Built Britain (2007). Previous to his present post, John worked as a historian at
English Heritage (2003-7), where he was involved in launching the new guidebook series
known as the Red Guides and worked on several presentation projects. His most recent
book The English Castle (2011) has won several awards including the society’s Alice Davis
Hitchcock Medallion. John is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, sits on the
Fabric Advisory Committees of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and St Albans Abbey.
Ed Taylor, Executive Producer, ITV Studios
Ed Taylor is a factual Executive Producer for ITV Studios, the production arm of ITV. Last
year he produced ITV’s first collaboration with the British Museum, Britain’s Secret Treasures,
showcasing artefacts and treasures discovered by the public and submitted to the Portable
Antiquities Scheme. This prime time series took ITV into unfamiliar territory, but proved to be
a success with viewers and critics alike, and was nominated for a Broadcast award for Best
Popular Factual. He is currently making a follow-up second series to this, and editing the
accompanying book, as well as producing Britain’s Secret Homes, a collaboration between
ITV, English Heritage, Historic Scotland, CADW and Northern Ireland’s Environment Agency.
This series will tell the stories behind some of the most extraordinary little known homes in
Britain.
Prior to working at ITV, Ed was a Head of Development at the BBC, where he devised Secret
Britain for BBC 1, supervised the re-commissions of Coast for BBC 2 and brought the book
How To Read A Church by Richard Taylor to BBC 4.