Hilary French

Hilary French teaches ballroom dancing classes for beginners. Her book Ballroom: a people’s History of dancing, (https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/ballroom) was published in 2022 by Reaktion books and you can hear her discussing it in an interview with Laurie Taylor broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’ in June 2022 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017tcd)

Emeritus Professor (Design) at Bath Spa University, Hilary has many years of experience as a teacher in both Further and Higher education.  She spent 16 years at the RCA as Head of the School of Architecture & Design and has also contributed, as an associate lecturer, to various design courses at other UK Higher Education Institutions at all levels.