Blog.

I’m thrilled to be sharing some material from my upcoming monograph at the BSECS 2021 Annual Conference on a panel on ‘Commemorating...

It’s November, so it’s AcWriMo (Academic Writing Month, based on NaNoWriMo) again. November always seems to need a bit of a push...

Cole and I are delighted to share the details for the latest @Collage_Res_Net event on Queering Collage, which has an excellent lineup,...

I’m thrilled to be acting as a respondent to Matthew Reeve’s brilliant book Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace...

I was thrilled to be on Isabella Rosner’s podcast Sew What? this week, talking about everything from femininity, identity and needlework,...

I’m delighted to share the CFP for this year’s Collage Research Network event, Queering Collage which will be hosted online some time in...

It’s been ages since I’ve done one of these posts, but I’m hoping to start the new academic year as I mean to continue, so here’s my...

We’re thrilled to share the programme for the second season of NDENCA, launching 14 October 2020. You can find the details here. We have...

Dr Madeleine Pelling and I are delighted to share the YouTube channel from the New Directions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art...

I’m already looking forward to being part of The Intermedial Eighteenth-Century: Textual and Visual Arts, 1660-1832 Conference, which...

The historiography of the so-called ‘Ladies of Llangollen’, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, has long been preoccupied with determining...

Over the past few months my conception of home has altered radically. Instead of my usual too-ing and fro-ing between Edinburgh and Derby...

Happy to share my review of Peter N. Lindfield’s book Georgian Gothic: Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730–1840, just...

I’m thrilled to be participating in the newly-established ODSECS (Open Digital Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies) programme this...

Dr. Maddy Pelling and I are delighted to launch New Directions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art (NDENCA), a digital seminar...

In this post (/series?) I want to offer some reflections on the idea of ‘working from home’ during the COVID-19 crisis, and what that...

I’m a little late with this month-in-review post, which, given the current global health crisis, I am not really surprised about. Some...

I couldn’t be more pleased that my article, ‘The Sister Arts: Textile Crafts between Paint, Print and Practice’ is now online in early...

Month-in-review post!? Well, given that it’s been hard to maintain the schedule of doing a weekly week-in-review post, I thought I’d...

I’m super excited to be speaking about ideas of masculinity through the ages as part of Oxford Brookes University’s Think Human Festival....