Nino Strachey

Nino Strachey is an author and historian, specialising in the work of the Bloomsbury Group. Her books Young Bloomsbury and Rooms of their Own shine new light on the queer history of the Bloomsbury Group, revealing changing attitudes towards gender and sexuality in the 1920s. Nino has a personal connection to Bloomsbury through her relative, the biographer Lytton Strachey.

Nino enjoys exploring the relationships between people and place, seeing buildings as biography. In 2024 she completed the Conservation Plan for Virginia Woolf’s house, and her chapter on Strawberry Hill featured in a new book on Jewish Country Houses. Nino has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, Apollo, the London Magazine, the Literary Review and Country Life. She loves connecting directly with audiences, and over the last few years has appeared at the Cheltenham, Bath, Edinburgh, Blenheim, Dartington and Charleston Literary Festivals (to name just a few). She has lectured on Bloomsbury in America and Italy, and at museums, universities and historic houses in the UK.

Nino is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, chairs the Strachey Trust, and has been a Trustee of the Charleston Trust and the Strawberry Hill Collection Trust. She worked as Head of Research for the National Trust, where she led their successful application to become an Independent Research Organisation, embedding research excellence at the heart of their activities, She has been a curator for the National Trust and English Heritage, and is a graduate of Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Author photo by Alex Schneideman