Mireille Galinou

Mireille Galinou, an art and urban historian, is a graduate from Bordeaux University France and Birkbeck College London. She has spent nearly fifty years working on the subject of London - first as the art curator of the Museum of London, then as a freelance consultant, and finally, since 2015, as a small independent publisher - Your London Publishing. She has written many books and articles, including 'London in Paint', the Museum of London catalogue of paintings (with John Hayes, 1996); 'City Merchants and the Arts' (as editor, 2004) and 'Cottages and Villas' (Yale, 2010) which charted the birth of the garden suburb in London and won the John Brinckerhoff Jackson book prize (Society for Landscape Studies in New York). 'London's South Bank' is the third book on London suburbs published by Your London Publishing; it was the winner of Book of the Year 2023 (London Historians).