Aileen Reid

Aileen’s work at the Survey of London has been a string of highlights – the latest being an interactive map of Whitechapel ‘to which anyone can add photos, audio, research or memories’. Indeed, after 20 years on Fleet Street, she’s big on making academia accessible and less about ‘Masonic signalling from one ivory tower to another’. Her book review in the February 2025 issue sees her parse the mysteries of painting.