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London’s Outrage punk fanzine My object of the week comes from Jon Savage’s article ‘Fanzines: the purest explosion of British punk‘,...

London’s Outrage punk fanzine My object of the week comes from Jon Savage’s article ‘Fanzines: the purest explosion of British punk‘,...

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,...

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...

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

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

Image from the MGHG Biennial Conference site. The upcoming MGHG Biennial Conference: Gendering Museum Histories (Ashmolean Museum,...

Image from the MGHG Biennial Conference site. The upcoming MGHG Biennial Conference: Gendering Museum Histories (Ashmolean Museum,...

My chapter ‘Taste a-la-Mode: consuming foreignness, picturing gender’, has just been published in Jennifer Germann and Heidi Strobel’s...

My chapter ‘Taste a-la-Mode: consuming foreignness, picturing gender’, has just been published in Jennifer Germann and Heidi Strobel’s...

This week my twitter feed has been full of historical valentines and love themed art objects, such as this ‘Lobster in Love’ valentine’s...

This week my twitter feed has been full of historical valentines and love themed art objects, such as this ‘Lobster in Love’ valentine’s...

On 25 February I’ll be presenting research developed from my doctoral thesis on the relationship between needlework, painting and print...

On 25 February I’ll be presenting research developed from my doctoral thesis on the relationship between needlework, painting and print...

Friendship book of Anne Wagner (1795-1834), New York Public Library. Another week in review, another favourite from the Public Domain...

Friendship book of Anne Wagner (1795-1834), New York Public Library. Another week in review, another favourite from the Public Domain...

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...