Rachel Hewitt

RACHEL HEWITT completed her doctoral thesis on the subject of the early Ordnance Survey at the University of London in 2007, and is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. In 2008 she won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction. She lives in Cambridge. Her previous books include Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey and A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind.