About

Dr Margarette Lincoln is Visiting Researcher at the University of Portsmouth and Curator Emeritus at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, where she was Deputy Director until 2015. She was a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London from 2015 to 2020, and Visiting Researcher at the University of Portsmouth 2021 to 2024. Her latest book, Perfection: 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty was published by Yale in September 2024.