Dr Vanessa Taylor

Dr Vanessa Taylor is a historian of water, rivers and environmental history at the University of Greenwich. She has published extensively, written for BBC History Magazine and appeared on Channel 4 TV, and is one of the foremost experts on the history of the river Thames.

Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History (W&N/Orion) is her first book for the trade and was published in August 2025 with Weidenfeld & Nicolson.