Terry is an historian and history lecturer with the Open University. She achieved both an MA (Hons), and an MLITT in history at the University of Glasgow, where she specialised in modern European and Scottish Enlightenment history. Terry then went on to gain her PGCE in secondary teaching and a Masters in Education. Terry has recently completed her BA (Hons) in Latin and Classical Civilisation because she can't seem to stop studying! She was born and raised in North Berwick, and has lived in Edinburgh on-and-off for years. She was a history teacher abroad for ten years in London, Stockholm and Abu Dhabi, but the pull of Edinburgh was too great and she moved home in December 2020. Terry currently lectures in Twentieth Century European History with The Open University and writes historical articles for Historic UK.