Tessa Dunlop

Dunlop attended Strathallan School and read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford University, where she won the 1995 Gertrude Easton Prize for History.[1] She also studied at Sheffield Hallam University and was awarded an MA in Imperialism and Culture.[2]

After graduating, Dunlop worked for both London radio station LBC and BBC London 94.9.[3]

She was named Regional Television Personality in the Royal Television Society's West of England Awards in 2005 for her work on the regional magazine show Inside Out West.[4] In 2007 Dunlop filmed Paranormal Egypt, an eight-part series with Derek Acorah on location in Egypt.

She has written for several British newspaper publications including The Guardian, The Independent, The Mail on Sunday and Scottish broadsheet The Herald.[5]

Dunlop's first book, To Romania with Love, a memoir set in post-revolution Romania about how she met her future husband, was published in May 2012.[6] Several further books written by her have been published:

• Tessa Dunlop (2018). The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1471161322.
• Tessa Dunlop (2015). The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-1444795714.
• Tessa Dunlop (2012). To Romania With Love. London: Quartet Books. ISBN 978-0704372573.

Dunlop has spoken of the death of her unborn IVF child due to listeriosis and as to how difficult it is to avoid Listeria bacteria in foods. She advised that heating food immediately before eating it destroys the bacterium, giving her more peace of mind during a later pregnancy.[7]