Bridget Clifford

Bridget Clifford is Keeper of Tower Armouries at the Royal Armouries at the Tower of London.

Bridget joined the National Maritime Museum after graduating in History from Manchester University in 1977, having cut her museum teeth as a volunteer in her ‘local’ at Hereford. Four years later, having started as a Weapon and become an Antiquity (mainly flags and glassware, but other nameless horrors with nautical associations) Bridget Clifford moved to the Armouries and the Department of Edged Weapons, spending the first year battling with “old Tower stock” of the pointy kind in the Brick Tower.

Four children and 20 years part-time curating later – which included working on projects such as the re-storage of the Royal Armouries collections in the Tower in the mid-80s, to taking over the Tower Library and Archive in celebration of the new millennium, and several Tower exhibitions in between – Bridget Clifford returned to full-time work as Keeper of Collections South (and library) in September 2006.

Publications

• Clifford, B. 1999. ‘Life with the Lions’, Royal Armouries Yearbook 4.
• Clifford, B. 2001. ‘My favourite piece’, The Armourer 46.
• Clifford, B. 2002 ‘Chicken Run’, Royal Armouries Yearbook 7.
• Clifford, B. and K. Watts 2003. An Introduction to Princely Armours and Weapons of Childhood, exhibition catalogue 2002, Leeds: Royal Armouries.

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