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I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the University of Derby as a Post Doctoral Fellow in History in June! I’ll be finishing The...

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the University of Derby as a Post Doctoral Fellow in History in June! I’ll be finishing The...

My object of the week is this albumen portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, which was used to illustrate the National Portrait Gallery’s...

My object of the week is this albumen portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, which was used to illustrate the National Portrait Gallery’s...

My object of the week is an image from Mary Banning’s The Fungi of Maryland, a lush volume with 175 hand-painted watercolors accompanied...

My object of the week is an image from Mary Banning’s The Fungi of Maryland, a lush volume with 175 hand-painted watercolors accompanied...

My object of the week is this book of spirit drawings by the medium Anna Mary Howitt. Now held at Cambridge University Library Special...

My object of the week is this book of spirit drawings by the medium Anna Mary Howitt. Now held at Cambridge University Library Special...

My object of the week is this newly-acquired patchwork made c. 1804 by Birmingham writer Catherine Hutton, now in the collections of...

My object of the week is this newly-acquired patchwork made c. 1804 by Birmingham writer Catherine Hutton, now in the collections of...

I’m thrilled to have received a Design History Society Research Travel & Conference Grant for my project, From House to Home: Gender,...

I’m thrilled to have received a Design History Society Research Travel & Conference Grant for my project, From House to Home: Gender,...

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 Michael Yonan’s article ‘Materializing Empire in an Eighteenth-Century Lace Gown’ (Textile), which was recently...

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...

MS Am 1118.11. Houghton Library, Harvard University My object of the week comes from this fascinating article ‘The Lost Gardens of Emily...

MS Am 1118.11. Houghton Library, Harvard University My object of the week comes from this fascinating article ‘The Lost Gardens of Emily...

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...