[8] She received a fellowship scholarship from the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale, in the same year for the Northern Grand Tour.
In 1987, as the museum's Keeper of Paintings, Prints and Drawings she wrote Londoners, a substantial book to accompany an exhibition of the same name.
[18] In 2013 she spoke out about the panel's budget being cut by 50%, saying “I fear Thurley’s proposals will lead to a dumbing down of the blue plaques scheme, by eroding the numbers and quality of those who assess the candidates.”[19] She resigned the following year, along with Dr Margaret Pelling, in protest, citing that the scheme was “being dismantled and its previous achievements discredited.”[20] Fox has contributed to the following journals and magazines: In 1979 Fox was a founding committee member of The Thirties Society (latterly The Twentieth Century Society).
In reference to the overlooking of the then deputy director Malcolm Rogers she said it showed “an extraordinary lack of judgment and is mischievously wasteful of talent.
I don’t know any other country that would behave like this when there was an obvious candidate with no marks against him.”[37] In 1999, Fox suggested Nelson Mandela for Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth, saying that he was “universally thought of as a major figure of the 20th century.” She also suggested moving the statue of George IV, as “a less heroic figure is hard to imagine.”[38] Fox joined Simon Jenkins for several of his research tours when he was compiling England's Thousand Best Houses (2004)[39] and England's Thousand Best Churches (2009).