Caroline Roope

Caroline Roope is a freelance writer specialising in social history and genealogy, and author of The History of the London Underground Map (Pen & Sword, 2022) and Nineteenth Century Female Explorers (Pen & Sword, 2023) She contributes regularly to Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, Best of British, Discover Your Ancestors Periodical and Discover Your Ancestors Bookazine, writing on social history topics as diverse as Scalextric to Victorian cross-dressing. Following an MA with Distinction in...See more

Caroline Roope is a freelance writer specialising in social history and genealogy, and author of The History of the London Underground Map (Pen & Sword, 2022) and Nineteenth Century Female Explorers (Pen & Sword, 2023) She contributes regularly to Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, Best of British, Discover Your Ancestors Periodical and Discover Your Ancestors Bookazine, writing on social history topics as diverse as Scalextric to Victorian cross-dressing. Following an MA with Distinction in Heritage Management she spent over ten years working in the heritage and museums sector, for small scale independent charities as well as the National Trust and English Heritage and is published academically in the International Journal of Intangible Heritage. See less