Dan Cruickshank is an author, architectural historian and broadcaster. His books on London life and architecture include: London: the Art of Georgian Buildings; Life in the Georgian City; A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea; The Secret History of Georgian London: how the sex industry shaped the capital; Spitalfields: a History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets; Cruickshank’s London; Soho: its history, architecture and people, and Built in Chelsea.

Cruickshank is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architecture; was a visiting Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Sheffield; has served on the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group and on the Architecture Panel of the National Trust, and is a founding Trustee of the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust.