Olivia Jane Horsfall Turner (born January 1980) is a British architectural historian, author and broadcaster.
She was brought up in Greenwich, south London, where she became interested in architecture through the influence of her father,[1] Jonathan Horsfall Turner, who had been involved in archaeological recording while a schoolboy at Canterbury.
[3] Horsfall Turner worked at Trinity College Dublin, followed by a position with English Heritage as an architectural investigator and secondment to the Survey of London as an historian.
[3] In 2013, Horsfall Turner was the writer and presenter of the television series Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain for BBC Four, produced by Timeline Films.
[5] Horsfall Turner has been described as having "a delicately old-fashioned manner"[6] and "the flamboyancy of the school swot's big sister".