Adrian John TinniswoodOBE FSA (born 11 October 1954) is an English
writer and
historian. He is currently Professor of English Social History at the University of Buckingham.
Tinniswood studied
English and
Philosophy at
Southampton University and was awarded an
MPhil at
Leicester University. He was a regional chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund (2004–10) and a member of the National Trust's Council and its Regional Committee for the South-West, and has served as a trustee on a number of boards, including the Bishop's Palace Wells, Bath Preservation Trust and the Holburne Museum. He is currently a trustee of the Leeds Castle Foundation and a member of the Cathedral Council and of the Fabric Advisory Committee, both at Wells Cathedral.
Visions of Power:Architecture and Ambition from Ancient Rome to Modern Paris (1998)
The Polite Tourist: A History of Country House Visiting First published in the
UK by Basil Blackwell (1989) with a similar title, later published by the
National Trust of
London (1998)
His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren (2001)
By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London (2003)
The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England (2007)
Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean (2010)
The Rainborowes: Pirates, Puritans and a Family's Quest for the Promised Land (2013)
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars (2016)[2]