Robert Heaven was born and grew up in Cirencester in the 1950s and '60s. He has degrees and post-graduate qualifications in Art History and Victorian studies and co-curated the Richard Redgrave RA exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Yale University in 1988. Robert writes for the 'Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard' and is currently digitising and archiving the photographic archive for the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Public Record Offices.