Amanda J. Field

Amanda Field studied art history at Winchester School of Art and took her Masters in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, where she completed her doctorate in 2009. Before embarking on academic study, she had a long career in corporate communications producing publications for blue-chip organisations including IBM, Vodafone, The Science Museum and British Gas.

For five years she was a volunteer at Portsmouth Museum where she helped catalogue the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes material, the Richard Lancelyn Green Collection, uncovering much original material which was then used in her book, England's Secret Weapon, which won the 2010 Howlett Literary Prize from the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.

She is also the author of Sucker Punch: Boxing Films of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, published in 2023, and a series of short ebooks, including How to Choose, Brief and Work with Graphic Designers; Sherlock Holmes in Advertising; Alone in the Crowd - Utopia and Dystopia on the Parisian Boulevards; and a number of books in the 'Short Takes' film studies series. Her novels include A Good Year For The Roses.