Before joining Arts Council England, Antonia was Director of the Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University, an academic research library and cultural centre containing the largest collection of women’s history in the UK.

Prior to joining the library, Antonia was head of literature at Southbank Centre, which involved overseeing the literature programme of around 130 events a year and overall management of the poetry library.

She is a governor of the Bishopsgate Institute and since 2008 has been governor of New Buckinghamshire University.

John Huddy first studied art history at school and went on to gain an MA (Hons) in History of Art at St Andrew’s University. John subsequently worked at auctioneers Christies in St James’s, London, where he extended an interest in old master drawings and paintings. However it was his close family connection with publishing that sparked his appreciation of  the outstanding range and quality of the books he had grown up with; as a child he had met many leading authors and artists which ultimately led on to founding the Illustration Cupboard in 1995.

Read an interview with John