Tessa Dunlop is a television presenter/historian and radio broadcaster. Over the last five years she has fronted history programmes on BBC2 and BBC1 London, Discovery Europe/UK, Channel 4, UKTV History and the American History Channel. This year she has presented her first reports for BBC1's One Show and recently filmed for the 2011 series of BBC2's Coast. Tessa won an RTS award for her presentation of the BBC's factual series Inside Out and can regularly be heard contributing and reporting on Radio 5, Sky News, Inside Out BBC1 London and the BBC's World Service.

She read history at Oxford University where she won the Gertrude Easton Prize. She is currently doing postgraduate studies in Imperialism and Culture and is nearly finished a memoir about her time in Romania shortly after the Revolution and what happened next.......Her articles have appeared in a number of publications including The Guardian, The Independent, The Mail on Sunday and The Herald.