[1][2][3] Alice Prochaska studied at Somerville College in the University of Oxford and received BA and DPhil degrees in Modern History.
Prochaska was initially a museum curator, and then an archivist at the Public Record Office, now The National Archives.
From 1984 to 1992 she was administrator and deputy director at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
[9] Prochaska was involved with the design of the first National Curriculum for history in the United Kingdom during 1989–90.
She chaired the National Council on Archives and was a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.