Matilda is the author of a monograph on Napoleonic soldiers’ memoirs, Dead Men Telling Tales (OUP, 2021), and the co-editor of two books, Enemy Encounters in Modern Warfare (Palgrave, 2024) and Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives (Bloomsbury, 2025).

She received her PhD in 2018 from the European University Institute in Florence, and subsequently held research and teaching posts in France, Ireland, the UK, and Spain, winning the equivalent of more than £100k in national grant funding for her work. Since 2022, she has worked as a Historian and subsequently Senior Historian (Narrative Lead) at the National Army Museum in the Research and Collections teams. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

She is currently directing an internal collections research project on the history of military valour, leading on the interpretation for several upcoming exhibitions, and is writing a second monograph on emotional histories in the British Army.

Matilda is interested in bridging academic and public history, with experience as a talk host, podcast speaker, and writer. She is open to media requests.