Caroline Dakers

Caroline Dakers is course director for BA Hons Criticism, Communication and Curation for Arts and Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

The main focus of Caroline Dakers' research is in the area of British art, architecture, design, and cultural history, particularly the 19th and early 20th century. Previous publications include The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society (Yale UP, 1999) and Clouds: The Biography of a Country House (Yale UP, 1993). She received an AHRC Changing Places research grant in 2002 to work at the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawing Collection, cataloguing the drawings of the High Victorian architect-designer George Aitchison. She is currently working on a new book commissioned by Yale University Press, Making Money in 19th Century Britain: The Morrisons of Fore Street . This examines the rise of a family of millionaire merchants (c.1800-1920), it will explore patronage of the arts, radical politics, the textile trade, British investment in the USA, banking and land management.

She also has an exhibition on 19th century architect J.B.Papworth.