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 at the National Army Museum as part of a new Research team. 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 origins of objects from the former Royal United Service Museum, and is preparing 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.