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My pick of the week is Michael Yonan’s article ‘Materializing Empire in an Eighteenth-Century Lace Gown’ (Textile), which was recently...

My pick of the week is the  Paul Mellon Centre’s new online resource, A Catalogue Raisonné of Francis Towne (1739-1816), by Richard...

My pick of the week is the  Paul Mellon Centre’s new online resource, A Catalogue Raisonné of Francis Towne (1739-1816), by Richard...

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...

Please join us for the ninth and final session in the University of Edinburgh’s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series. The session...

Please join us for the ninth and final session in the University of Edinburgh’s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series. The session...

I’m excited to announce that I’ve been awarded a Stephen Copley Research Award from the British Association for Romantic Studies for...

I’m excited to announce that I’ve been awarded a Stephen Copley Research Award from the British Association for Romantic Studies for...

Please join us for the sixth session in the University of Edinburgh’s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series. The session will...

Please join us for the sixth session in the University of Edinburgh’s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series. The session will...

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....

As it’s the Easter Weekend, my object of the week is this beautiful watercolour by Francesco Bartoli. Painted between 1700 and 1725,...

As it’s the Easter Weekend, my object of the week is this beautiful watercolour by Francesco Bartoli. Painted between 1700 and 1725,...

I’m thrilled to have been awarded a Lewis Walpole Library Travel Grant to conduct research for my postdoctoral research project, Crafting...

I’m thrilled to have been awarded a Lewis Walpole Library Travel Grant to conduct research for my postdoctoral research project, Crafting...

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...

Between May and July 2016, I’ll be delivering an introductory art history course in Edinburgh in association with The New School of Art....