Jane S.M. Bowen

Curator, Amersham Museum, Amersham (since 2005).

Previous employment

• 1979-1985: Science Museum, London.
  • Inter alia, involved with the exhibitions Challenge of the Chip and This is IT, and curatorial work on the computing collections. See early programming using Babbage's Difference Engine!
  • Seconded to help set up the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford.

• 1985-1990: Oxford University Press.
  • Part-time work on scientific entries for the 8th edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (1990).

• 1990-1994: Oxfordshire County Council.
  • Oxfordshire Photographic Archive, Oxford.
  • Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Witney.

• 1994-2005: River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames.
  • First Director and Senior Curator.

Education

Personal

• Married to Jonathan Bowen (1979).

• Children: Alice (1986) and Emma (1988).

• Resident of Sonning.

• Brother: John Horsfall, works for R B Hawkins & Associates, Cambridge.

• Other museums.
• Photographs rowing on the river Cherwell with daughter, Alice, August 1995.