Historian
Jennifer
Regan-Lefebvre,PhD
Historian
WINNER OF THE ANDRÉ SIMON
DRINK BOOK AWARD 2022
Imperial Wine: How the British Empire
Made Wine's New World
”A brilliant book from start to finish” - JancisRobinson.com
A fascinating deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry. Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britain’s surprising role in creating the wine industries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand.
New Books Coming Soon
Using History, Selling Wine
Written by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre
A short, open-access book. A historian explains how history is used and abused in wine marketing.
Expected 2027 in the Royal Historical Society's Elements in History and Contemporary Society series.
The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Wine
Edited by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre
Six volumes exploring the cultural history of wine from antiquity to the present. Fifty-two historical experts from ten countries. Expected 2027 as one of the Bloomsbury Cultural Histories from Bloomsbury Academic.
