Dr. Diane Atkinson is an author and historian who specializes in women in history, especially the history of the Suffragettes in England. Previously, Atkinson was a curator at the Museum of London, where she prepared their Suffragette exhibition in 1992. Atkinson's first book, "The Purple, White and Green: Suffragettes in London," was published in 1992 She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia. She married the artist Patrick Hughes in 1986.