Michael Wheeler

Professor Wheeler is a leading historian of the Victorian age, whose books and talks are lively and multidisciplinary. Known for the clarity of his writing and the accessibility of his talks, Michael has published extensively with Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press, Longman and Macmillan, and has lectured in eighteen countries outside the UK. During a decade lecturing for NADFAS, in the UK, Germany and Australia, Michael was very much in demand.

Having taken a double first in English at Magdalene College Cambridge and a doctorate at University College London, Michael became Lecturer and later Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University, where he masterminded the project to build the Ruskin Library, before moving to Hampshire, where he was co-Director of Chawton House Library and Professor (now Visiting Professor) at the University of Southampton. He is a former Lay Canon and Member of Chapter at Winchester Cathedral and Chairman of Trustees at Gladstone’s Library. He is a member of the Athenĉum and a regular reviewer for the Church Times.

He is married to the therapist Susan Woodhead and lives in Andover, Hampshire.