Chloe-Anne is a historian on a mission to bring the past to life with her historical adventures around the globe. Through playful yet rigorously researched storytelling she sparks public curiosity and makes history feel alive, surprising and irresistibly relevant. She roams happily across every corner of the past (and the planet!), but her heart lies in the history of science: the discoveries, ideas and people who shaped how we understand the world.
Chloe-Anne is a 28-year-old, Oxford-based historian with a passion for bringing to light the joy, adventure and magic of the past.
Chloe-Anne studied an undergraduate Master’s degree in English Literature and History at the University of Edinburgh, before going on to study a postgraduate Master’s degree in History at the University of Bristol. Academically, her research focuses on the history of science and medicine, the history of ideas, and the history of emotions. In her public history work, and particularly on social media, Chloe-Anne’s focus is a lot broader — researching and telling the history of everything from the Rosetta Stone to supercars. Her aim is to inspire interest in history by showing that it’s so much more than just sitting in a dusty room with dusty books!
Chloe-Anne has collaborated with a variety of organisations on social media to highlight the best of history everywhere. Recently these collaborations have included the Natural History Museum, Oxford University, Shapero Rare Books and Salon Privé, among many others. She also enjoys working with fellow historians, content creators and experts from a wide array of disciplines, to bring history to life from new perspectives.
Chloe-Anne also recently starred in the first season of the BBC’s adventure reality show Destination X, in which she competed against 12 others to guess her location and win £100,000.
Areas of focus
History of science & medicineHistory of ideasHistory of emotionsPublic historyEarly modern
What does “Be more Tigerlily than Wendy” actually mean?
A note from Chloe-Anne
Growing up, I suffered from crippling anxiety which stopped me from taking up a lot of opportunities and doing a lot of things that I wanted to do. But when I was 15 years old I went to see an RSC production of Wendy and Peter Pan (an adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan created by Ella Hickson). I remember watching the play and seeing Wendy whining and crying, too afraid to do anything without Peter, and realised that that was me… I was Wendy. Then on the other hand, there was Tigerlily, this amazing, fearless warrior princess who was capable of anything (and had a bow and arrow, which was just cool) and I wanted to be her.
So from that day forwards I decided to live by the motto ‘Be more Tigerlily than Wendy’, which essentially means: be brave, trust yourself, and give it a go. From then on I only allowed myself to answer to opportunities as Tigerlily would, not like Wendy, and slowly I found myself beating the anxiety and becoming the person that I’d always wanted to be. Of course, I’ll never quite get there — that’s the joy of Tigerlily; she lives in my imagination and so she’ll always be just out of reach, always something to aim for — but I’m an awful lot closer than I was at 15.
I think 15-year-old me might faint if she saw what my day-to-day looks like now (let alone if she knew I’d jumped out of a plane!). So that’s where ‘Be more Tigerlily than Wendy’ comes from and what it means, and also why I call myself ‘Tigerlily History’. I hope that if you also find yourself suffering from anxiety, Tigerlily might be able to help you too…
Events & Talks
Events
Archive — for now
A record of past talks, lectures, panels and live appearances. [When you have upcoming dates, add them at the top and remove the archive note.]
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Chloe-Anne starred in the first season of the BBC’s adventure reality show Destination X, in which she competed against 12 others to guess her location and win £100,000.
Destination X is a BBC adventure reality series, hosted by Rob Brydon, in which 13 contestants boarded a bus with blacked out windows, somewhere in Europe, and had to complete challenges to help them guess their location whilst it drove all over the continent. Chloe-Anne was hoping her historical knowledge of Europe might help her to solve puzzles and pick up on clues the others missed, but did she succeed? Watch the series to find out!
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Social media
Where to keep up with most of my historical adventures...
Recent collaborations
Natural History Museum
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Watch on Instagram →Bodmin Jail
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Watch on YouTube →Shapero Rare Books
Watch on YouTube →Salon Privé
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