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Lynda Nead

Lynda Nead is a British curator and art historian. Her work studies British art, media, culture and often focuses on gender.

She teaches courses on nineteenth and twentieth-century British art and culture, along with lectures on approaches to the History of Art. She has also contributed to a number of arts documentaries on the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky Arts and is a regular contributor to arts programmes on BBC Radio 4, such as ''Front Row'' and ''Free Thinking''.

Her latest book, ''British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Postwar Britain'', centres on Ruth Ellis, Diana Dors and Barbara Windsor and includes material delivered as the Paul Mellon Lectures at the Victoria & Albert Museum and Yale University in 2023–2024 – it was published by Yale UP for the Paul Mellon Centre on 9 September 2025. she is working on a book on the 1947 British film ''It Always Rains on Sunday'', for the British Film Institute Film Classics series, published by Bloomsbury Press. Provided by Wikipedia