Tours & Study Days With

Helen Clifford

Helen Clifford trained as an historian, completing a Ph.D. on the royal goldsmiths Garrard.  She combines academic research, writing and lecturing with a hands-on approach to the decorative arts, running her own museum in Swaledale, North Yorkshire. She has curated major exhibitions including A Treasured Inheritance 600 Years of Oxford College Silver (2004) for the Ashmolean, and The Story of Britain and Gold (2012) for the Goldsmiths’ Company, where she is a freeman. She has recently published a book on the silver of the Grocers’ Company.