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Just as I did last year, I wanted to make a post on this blog reflecting on 2017, whilst also looking forward to what’s happening in...

Last week I was in London for the excellent Sibylline Leaves: Chaos and Compilation in the Romantic Period conference. In this post, I’ll...

Last week I was in London for the excellent Sibylline Leaves: Chaos and Compilation in the Romantic Period conference. In this post, I’ll...

For the next few days I’ll be in Umeå, Sweden for the 2017 Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History. This...

For the next few days I’ll be in Umeå, Sweden for the 2017 Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History. This...

Perhaps the most significant event this week, was the passing of the great art critic John Berger, whose hugely influential book and tv...

Perhaps the most significant event this week, was the passing of the great art critic John Berger, whose hugely influential book and tv...

Inspired by a number of reflective end-of-year blog posts (including this and this) I thought I’d map out my aims and activities for...

Inspired by a number of reflective end-of-year blog posts (including this and this) I thought I’d map out my aims and activities for...

I was thrilled to find out that I’ll be presenting my paper ‘A literary inheritance: Romantic family histories and textual afterlives in...

I was thrilled to find out that I’ll be presenting my paper ‘A literary inheritance: Romantic family histories and textual afterlives in...

I’ve now Storified our AAH 2016 panel, The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture, which is...

I’ve now Storified our AAH 2016 panel, The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture, which is...

With the Association of Art Historian’s Annual Conference less than a week away, I’m publishing the session abstracts here on the blog....

With the Association of Art Historian’s Annual Conference less than a week away, I’m publishing the session abstracts here on the blog....

Page from the commonplace book of Ellen Warter, granddaughter of Robert Southey, Coll-1559, Centre for Research Collections, University...

Page from the commonplace book of Ellen Warter, granddaughter of Robert Southey, Coll-1559, Centre for Research Collections, University...

Object biographies: family histories and textual afterlives in the commonplace books of Ellen Warter This paper will focus on two...

Object biographies: family histories and textual afterlives in the commonplace books of Ellen Warter This paper will focus on two...

See the Storify for Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference Difficult Women in the Long Eighteenth Century here and here. #feminism #history...