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Lucy Inglis (born 1977) is an English writer and historian.

Lucy Inglis was born in Lincolnshire and studied English and Language at Hull University.

She has acted as a consultant about Georgian London and was the creator of the award-winning Georgian London blog. She brought a new approach on the cultural history about the city of London through the lesser-known aspects of the capital during the Eighteenth Century -including architecture, art, food, immigration, society and sex-. She has lectured in many countries : United Kingdom, United States, Pakistani or Indonesia.

She is also a novelist and published in 2015 'Crow Mountain', a novel about the birth of the state of Montana which was awarded by Young Adult Novel of 2016 prize at the Romantic Novelists' Association Awards. Social historian and writer, she shares her life between England and South of France.

Historical works

 * Georgian London: Into the Streets, Viking for Penguin, London, 2013. (shortlisted for the History Today Longman Prize).
 * Milk of Paradise : A History of Opium, Pan Macmillan, London, 2019.

Novels

 * City of Halves, Chicken House, 2014. (Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Branford Boase award).
 * Crow Mountain, Chicken House, 2015. (Young Adult Novel of 2016 prize at the Romantic Novelists' Association Awards).

Short story

 * The Julian Bower, Shortfire Press, 2011.