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Judith Miller (antiques expert)

{{short description|British antiques expert, writer, and broadcaster (1951–2023)}}

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|birth_place = Galashiels, Scotland

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|death_place = London, England

|occupation = Antiques expert, author, broadcaster

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Judith Henderson Miller (née Cairns; 16 September 1951 – 8 April 2023) was a Scottish antiques expert, writer, and broadcaster.

Early career

Born Judith Henderson Cairns in Galashiels, Scotland, Miller first began collecting antiques while studying history at the University of Edinburgh. In 1979, she co-wrote the Miller's Antiques Price Guide with her first husband, Martin Miller, whom she had married the year before, and had two children with.{{cite web|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20040106/antiques06/antiquing-with-judith-miller-nostalgia-and-greed-drive-the-collectors-market|title=Antiquing with Judith Miller: Nostalgia and greed drive the collectors' market|last=Betts Hickman|first=Elizabeth|date=6 January 2004|work=The Seattle Times|publisher=The Seattle Times Company|access-date=10 March 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://news.scotsman.com/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=2470976|title=Fire and Ice|last=McGlone|first=Jackie|date=18 October 2003|work=The Scotsman|accessdate=10 March 2010}}{{cite web |last1=Thorton |first1=Kay |title=Martin Miller (1946 - 2013) |url=https://www.salvoweb.com/salvonews/17611-martin-miller-1946-2013?salvonews%2F17611-martin-miller-1946-2013= |website=www.salvoweb.com |publisher=Salvo |access-date=13 April 2023}}

Television presenter

Miller worked as a consultant to and co-presenter of eight series of The Antiques Trail (Meridian, HTV and Discovery), run on ITV.{{cite news|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/04/14/judith-miller-obituary-antiques-roadshow-price-guide/|title = Judith Miller, co-founder of Miller's Antiques Price Guide and stalwart Antiques Roadshow expert – obituary|newspaper = The Daily Telegraph|date = 14 April 2023|accessdate = 14 April 2023|url-access = subscription}} She had also presented It's Your Bid for the Discovery Channel. She was a regular expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, and also appeared on Priceless Antiques Roadshow.

Miller co-presented The House Detectives on BBC Two.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121110025135/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv-reviews-1271220.html The Independent (UK), "TV Reviews," including "The House Detectives" with Judith Miller (scroll down)]

Journalism and lecturer

Miller was a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines including BBC Homes & Antiques, where she wrote a four-page feature on "Starting a Collection". She also wrote the antiques column for The Scotsman magazine and a monthly feature for the Financial Times weekend supplement "House and Home". She was the antiques and collecting columnist for The Daily Telegraph. Miller was also the antiques agony aunt with Antiques and Collectables magazine. She wrote a monthly feature in Canadian Home and Country magazine and was a regular contributor to US Traditional Home and Country Living.{{Cn|date=April 2023}}

Miller also regularly lectured at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Smithsonian.{{cite web|url=http://www.millersantiquesguide.com/about-us/|title=About us|publisher=Octopus Publishing Group|accessdate=10 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714095517/http://www.millersantiquesguide.com/about-us/|archive-date=14 July 2011|url-status=dead}}

Publishing and select bibliography

In 2001, Miller embarked on a joint venture with Dorling Kindersley to publish two full-colour annual price guides to antiques and collectables, a series of specialist collectors guides and price guides beginning with costume jewellery. In 2007 she returned to Miller's, an imprint of Octopus Books (a division of Hachette Livre).{{Cn|date=April 2023}}

Personal life and death

After her marriage to Martin Miller ended in divorce in 1992, Miller began a relationship with John Wainwright, and they had one son. The family lived in North London {{as of|2004|lc=yes}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.boston.com/yourlife/home/articles/2004/08/29/labor_of_love/|title=Labor of Love|last=Kooker|first=Naomi R.|date=29 August 2004|work=The Boston Globe|publisher=Globe Newspaper Company|accessdate=10 March 2010}} Miller and Wainwright married in 2015.

Miller died at a hospital in North London on 8 April 2023, at the age of 71.{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/world/europe/judith-miller-dead.html|title = Judith Miller, 'Antiques Roadshow' Mainstay, Is Dead at 71|newspaper = The New York Times|last = Green|first = Penelope|date = 6 May 2023|accessdate = 6 May 2023|url-access = limited}}

Bibliography

Miller published more than 100 books on antiques and interiors, including:

  • Co-founder Miller's Antiques Price Guide (first edition 1979)
  • Miller's Collectables Price Guide (first edition 1989)
  • Classic Style (Mitchell Beazley), {{ISBN|978-1-84000-050-4}}
  • Country Finishes and Effects (Mitchell Beazley), {{ISBN|978-1-85732-888-2}}
  • Country Style (Mitchell Beazley), {{ISBN|978-1-85732-465-5}}
  • Miller's How to Make Money out of Antiques, {{ISBN|978-1-85732-584-3}}
  • Miller's Antiques and Collectables
  • Miller's Antiques Checklists – 12 titles
  • Miller's Antiques Encyclopedia, {{ISBN|978-1-84533-433-8}}
  • Miller's Pine and Country Furniture Buyer's Guide, {{ISBN|978-1-84000-374-1}}
  • Miller's Understanding Antiques, {{ISBN|978-1-85732-857-8}}
  • Period Details (Mitchell Beazley), {{ISBN|978-1-85732-043-5}}
  • Period Details Sourcebook (Mitchell Beazley), {{ISBN|978-1-84000-137-2}}
  • Period Paint Finishes (Mitchell Beazley)
  • Period Style (Mitchell Beazley), {{ISBN|978-0-85533-731-5}}
  • Period-style Soft Furnishings (Mitchell Beazley), {{ISBN|978-1-85732-792-2}}
  • The Style Source Book (Mitchell Beazley)
  • Victorian Style (Mitchell Beazley), {{ISBN|978-1-85732-955-1}}
  • Wooden Houses (Ryland Peters & Small), {{ISBN|978-1-84172-175-0}}
  • Victoriana, {{ISBN|978-0-905879-06-2}}
  • Miller's Pocket Antiques Factfile, {{ISBN|978-0-670-82059-7}}
  • Period Finishes and Effects (Mitchell Beazley), {{ISBN|978-0-8478-1569-2}}
  • Miller's Classic Motorcycles Price Guide (Mick Walker), {{ISBN|978-1-84000-962-0}}
  • More Period Details: The House Renovator's Bible (Mitchell Beazley), {{ISBN|978-0-609-60410-6}}
  • Care & Repair of Antiques & Collectables (Mitchell Beazley), {{ISBN|978-1-84533-418-5}}
  • Great Escapes (Ryland, Peters & Small), {{ISBN|978-1-84172-000-5}}
  • Judith Miller's Guide to Period-Style Curtains and Soft Furnishings (Mitchell Beazley), {{ISBN|978-1-58567-054-3}}
  • A Closer Look at Antiques (Marshall Publishing), {{ISBN|978-0-8212-2734-3}}
  • Colour (Marshall Publishing), 978-1840282917
  • The Illustrated Dictionary of Antiques and Collectables (Marshall Publishing), {{ISBN|978-1-84028-337-2}}
  • The Antiques Hunter's Guide to Europe (Marshall Publishing), {{ISBN|978-1-84028-334-1}}
  • BBC Antiques Roadshow Antiques Price Guide 2008 (30th Anniversary Edition), {{ISBN|978-1-4053-2543-1}}
  • Dorling Kindersley Antiques Price Guide US 2003–2008 (annual)
  • Dorling Kindersley Collectables Price Guide UK 2003–2008 (annual)
  • Dorling Kindersley Collectibles Price Guide US 2003–2008 (annual)
  • Dorling Kindersley German Antiques Price Guide 2004–2005 & 2006–2007
  • Grund French Antiques Price Guide 2004–2008 (annual)
  • Dorling Kindersley Collectors Guide to Costume Jewellery, {{ISBN|978-1405318129}}
  • Dorling Kindersley Collectors Guide to Art Nouveau, {{ISBN|978-1-4053-0251-7}}
  • Dorling Kindersley Collectors Guide to Art Deco, {{ISBN|978-1-4053-0754-3}}
  • Dorling Kindersley Collectors Guide to Arts & Crafts, {{ISBN|978-1-4053-0882-3}}
  • Dorling Kindersley Collectors Guide to 20thC Glass, {{ISBN|978-1-4053-0592-1}}
  • Dorling Kindersley Collectors Guide to Tribal Art, {{ISBN|978-1-4053-1289-9}}
  • Inspired Interiors, Jacqui Small Editions, Aurum Press, {{ISBN|978-1-903221-55-6}}
  • Reader's Digest Buy Keep or Sell, {{ISBN|978-1-4053-4514-9}}
  • Dorling Kindersley Encyclopedia of Furniture, {{ISBN|978-0-13-243642-7}}
  • Dorling Kindersley Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, {{ISBN|978-1-4053-1290-5}}
  • Dorling Kindersley Collectors Pocket Book: Handbags, {{ISBN|978-0-7566-1920-6}}
  • Dorling Kindersley Collectors Pocket Book: Metal Toys'', {{ISBN|978-1-4053-0624-9}}
  • Dorling Kindersley Collectors Pocket Book: Perfume Bottles, {{ISBN|978-1-4053-0625-6}}
  • Dorling Kindersley Collectors Pocket Book: The Sixties, {{ISBN|978-1-4053-0628-7}}
  • "Modern Country or Country by Jacqui Small Editions", Aurum Press
  • Dorling Kindersley The Antiques Detective, {{ISBN|978-1-4053-4196-7}}
  • Dorling Kindersley BBC Antiques Roadshow A-Z of Antiques and Collectables, {{ISBN|978-1-4053-1765-8}}
  • Miller's Antiques Price Guide 2009, {{ISBN|978-1-84533-313-3}}
  • Miller's Collectables Price Guide 2009, {{ISBN|978-1-84533-442-0}}
  • Miller's Fact Book, {{ISBN|978-1-84533-430-7}}
  • Miller's Shoes, {{ISBN|978-1-84533-475-8}}
  • Miller's Watches, {{ISBN|978-1-84533-476-5}}
  • Chairs, {{ISBN|978-1-84091-523-5}}
  • 20th Century Design, {{ISBN|978-1-84533-513-7}}
  • Miller's Collectables Handbook 2010–2011, {{ISBN|978-1-84533-514-4}}
  • Miller's Antiques Handbook & Price Guide 2010–2011, {{ISBN|978-1-84533-515-1}}

References

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External links

  • [http://skirtedroundtable.blogspot.com/2009/12/renowned-antiques-expert-judith-miller.html Interview with Judith Miller on The Skirted Roundtable blog]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20101013151606/http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/features/miller/interview.html Interview with Judith Miller on Dorling Kindersley website]
  • [http://www.marthastewart.com/article/chairs-with-judith-miller "Martha Stewart Home & Garden" Show, "Chairs with Judith Miller," October 15, 2009]
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Category:1951 births

Category:2023 deaths

Category:20th-century Scottish women writers

Category:21st-century Scottish women writers

Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh

Category:Scottish antiques experts

Category:Scottish antiquarians

Category:Scottish broadcasters

Category:Scottish television personalities

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Category:People from Galashiels

Category:Antiques Roadshow