Breeze Barrington a cultural historian specialising in the artistic cultures of the seventeenth century, with particular focus on women’s history and female artists. Her PhD, which looked at the literary and artistic cultures of the early Stuart court, was awarded in 2021, from Queen Mary, University of London.

As an arts writer and critic, she has written for Apollo Magazine, The Art Newspaper, CNN Style, The Conversation, the Financial Times, and the Times Literary Supplement, and has appeared as a guest on podcasts including History Hack, Talking Tudors, the Colnaghi Foundation, and the TLS Podcast. She has also worked as a consultant for Working Title and Monumental Pictures.

Her academic writing includes articles on seventeenth century music and visual arts for The Seventeenth Century Journal and Bloomsbury Academic. She teaches literature at the University of Cambridge and has previously taught seventeenth century literature and culture at Queen Mary, University of London, as well as Biography/Non-Fiction on the presitigious Creative Writing degree at the University of East Anglia.

Breeze is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and is represented by PEW Literary Agency. Her first book, The Graces, about Maria of Modena and the community of female learning she cultivated within the Jacobite court, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2025.