Andy is a London-based writer and cultural historian. Graduating in Art History from St Andrews University in Scotland, he studied cultural criticism at City University of London and modernist literature at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Since 2005 he has taught 500 years of cultural history at galleries, museums, schools and universities across Europe and the United States. He was formally an archivist at The British Library in London, where he co-catalogued the Harold Pinter archive, interviewed Dame Joan Plowright on her life in theatre for the Oral History Archive, co-organised an exhibition on T. S. Eliot and researched the 2012 Cultural Olympiad exhibition Writing Britain . Andy writes articles for AnOther magazine and for Jack Guinness' Queer Bible , and is the author of The Angel of Charleston (2013).