Elizabeth is an independent art historian, researcher and lecturer. She is a curatorial advisor to the National Trust on horse-drawn carriages and historic stables, and departmental tutor at the University of Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education. Previously, she worked with antiques and decorative arts, firstly for a leading London furniture dealer and then for Sotheby’s English furniture department.
For four years she was a research fellow at Leeds University and has been awarded research fellowships by the George Washington Presidential Library and the Huntington Library and Art Museum.

Between 2013-2017 she was co-director of the Attingham Summer School, and since then has directed Study Programmes on ‘The Horse and the Country House’ (2018) and ‘The Historic House in Ireland’ (2022) as well as Short Courses on ‘Court Culture and the Horse’ (2024) and ‘New Perspectives in Country House Studies’ (2025). She is chair of trustees of the Hall Bequest Trust, one of four charities that own the collections at Stowe House in Buckinghamshire.