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Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D.

Vanessa Wilkie

Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D.

William A. Moffett Senior Curator of Medieval Manuscripts and British History and Head of Library Curatorial

Department: Library, Curatorial Department (626-405-2203)

vwilkie@huntington.org

626-405-3525


Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D., is the head of the Library Curatorial department and curates the Library’s renowned collections of medieval manuscripts and British history. She earned her Ph.D. in British history from the University of California, Riverside, and was a visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Redlands before coming to The Huntington in 2013. Wilkie has curated two exhibitions: “Magna Carta: Law & Legend” and “The Reformation: From the Word to the World.” She also served on the advisory committee for the arts initiative /five. She has published on female editorial practices, patronage, and death rituals. Her book A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England (Atria/Simon & Schuster) was published in April 2023.


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Indenture document from the Hastings Collection identifying the winning candidate in a local parliamentary election in March 1640

Securing Election Results in 1640

Posted on Jan. 13, 2021

The first page of the General Prologue in the Ellesmere Chaucer

Graffiti in the Ellesmere Chaucer

Posted on Dec. 13, 2017

Medieval manuscripts curator Vanessa Wilkie in Battle, England, standing with visitors from France dressed as Norman soldiers

Finding Harmony in Battle

Posted on Dec. 19, 2016

Detail of A.A. Milne’s illustration of King John staring at a row of Christmas cards

Bad King John

Posted on Aug. 28, 2015

Detail of an illuminated leaf that comes from one of The Huntington’s 15th-century manuscript copies of the 1225 Magna Carta

(The) Magna C(h)arta

Posted on July 21, 2015