Julie Summers | |
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Born | 1960 |
Occupation(s) | Writer Researcher Historian Actress |
Years active | 2004 - Present |
Known for | Inspiring Home Fires |
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Julie Summers (born 1960) is an English author, historical consultant[1] and writer, best known for the book Jambusters. The book focuses on several women who were members of the Women's Institute during World War II and who were inspiration for the ITV series Home Fires. She is the granddaughter of Philip Toosey and the great niece of Sandy Irvine.
She was born at Clatterbridge on the Wirral Peninsula in 1960. She attended Culcheth Hall School, Altrincham; Howell's School, Denbigh and Wycombe Abbey School. She was at Munich Business School 1978-80 and spent one year at Deutsche Bank. She then studied German and History of Art at Bristol University; Courtauld Institute of Art: Medieval Architecture. At the Royal Academy of Arts was secretary 1986-1989 to Norman Rosenthal, then she was Deputy Curator for the Henry Moore Foundation 1989-1996, a freelance exhibition organiser 1996-2000 and Head of Exhibitions at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 2000-2004.[2]
Summers was also the research consultant on the popular film The Woman in Black: Angel of Death.