Dr Anna Keay OBE

Dr Anna Keay has been Director of Landmark since July 2012, following two years as a Trustee. Her background is a historian, curator and broadcaster, with a special interest in 17th-century British history.

From 2002 until 2012 Anna was Curatorial Director of English Heritage, responsible for curating and presenting to the public 420 historic sites across England. Before that she was a curator for Historic Royal Palaces. She has various non-executive roles in addition to her work at Landmark, including as a Trustee of the Royal Collection Trust and of the Pilgrim Trust.

In 2015 Anna co-wrote Landmark: A History of Britain in 50 Buildings with Landmark’s Historian Caroline Stanford, and is the author of a number of books on British history and culture. These includeThe Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown (2022) which won the Duff Cooper prize for Non-Fiction and was Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2022. She was awarded an OBE for services to history and heritage.