Name Mark Hill | Role TV presenter | |
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Books Miller's Collectables Handboo, Cracking Antiques, Collectables Handbook, Buy - Keep Or Sell?, Miller's Collectibles Handboo | ||
Mark hill
Mark Hill (born 1975) is a British antiques expert, TV presenter, author and publisher.
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Early life and education
Educated at Cranmore Preparatory School in West Horsley and the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, he studied History of Art & Architecture at the University of Reading.
Career
In 1996, he joined Bonhams as a porter, and then became a Junior Cataloguer in their Collectors Department. He moved on to join Sotheby's in London as a Specialist in their Collectors Department.
In 2001, he joined Internet company icollector.com, rising to become Director of Auction House Services.
He has contributed to DK Collectables Price Guide (by Judith Miller) and has been co-author of the annual Miller's Collectables Price Guide from 2009 to 2014. He has also contributed to a number of other titles in association with Miller including Buy, Keep or Sell? for the Reader's Digest, Decorative Arts and DK Collectors' Guide: 20thC Glass.
In 2006, he founded his own publishing company, Mark Hill Publishing Ltd, specialising in producing books on new and developing areas in 20th century design.
He is the antiques columnist for the Daily Mail, and has lectured widely, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He is also a member of the vetting committees for a number of major international fairs, including the Olympia Fine Art & Antiques Fair and the British Antiques Dealers' Association's annual fair. He is also a co-founder of Antiques Young Guns, a website and internet-based association that promotes young people working in the Antiques Trade, In 2010, he fronted National Antiques Week, organised by Antiques Are Green. In 2014 he rediscovered the copper etching plates for a series of etchings by Pierre-Georges Jeanniot inspired by Francisco Goya and Jacques Callot and covering The Rape of Belgium, which he restored and published after they were banned in 1915 and subsequently lost.
Television
He has been a specialist in the miscellaneous and collectables teams on the BBC Antiques Roadshow since 2007, and regularly appears on the show. He has also co-presented three primetime television series for BBC2; Cracking Antiques with Kathryn Rayward in 2010, and Antiques Uncovered with Lucy Worsley in 2012. In 2014, he co-presented Collectaholics, a new primetime BBC2 series, with Mel Giedroyc.
Other information
Hill lives in London with his partner. He is a Patron of the King's Lynn Arts Centre, a Freeman of the City of London, and a Freeman of the City of London Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars.
Publications
Published by Miller's, an imprint of Octopus Books (a division of Hachette Livre):
Published by Mitchell Beazley, an imprint of Octopus Books (a division of Hachette Livre:
Published by Dorling Kindersley: