Judith Miller (antiques expert)


Judith Miller is an antiques expert, writer and broadcaster based in the UK.

Early career

Born in Galashiels, Scotland, Miller first began collecting antiques while studying history at Edinburgh University. In 1979, she co-wrote the Miller's Antiques Price Guide with her first husband, Martin Miller.

Television presenter

Miller has worked on as consultant to and co-presenter of eight series of The Antiques Trail, run on the ITV network. She has also presented It's Your Bid for the Discovery Channel. She is a regular expert on the BBC Antiques Roadshow, and has also appeared onPriceless Antiques Roadshow.
Miller has co-presented The House Detectives on BBC2.

Journalism and lecturer

Miller is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines including BBC Homes & Antiques, where she writes a four-page feature on 'Starting a Collection'. She has written the antiques column for The Scotsman Magazine and writes a monthly feature for the Financial Times weekend supplement "House and Home". She is the antiques and collecting columnist for the Saturday Telegraph property supplement. She is the antiques agony aunt with Antiques and Collectables magazine. She writes a monthly feature in Canadian Home and Country magazine and is a regular contributor to US Traditional Home and Country Living.
Miller also regularly lectures at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Smithsonian.

Publishing and select bibliography

In 2001, Miller embarked on a joint venture with Dorling Kindersley to publish two full-colour annual price guides to antiques and collectables, a series of specialist collectors guides and price guides beginning with 'Costume Jewellery'. In 2007 she returned to Miller's, an imprint of Octopus Books.

Personal life

Judith Miller lives with her second husband John Wainwright and the youngest of her three children in North London.