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Since beginning my research on the commonplace books of Ellen Warter, I – like their author – have been preoccupied with the Brontës. For...

This week’s object of the week isn’t mine per se, but Zara Anishanslin’s. In her recently published book, Portrait of a Woman in Silk:...

This week’s object of the week isn’t mine per se, but Zara Anishanslin’s. In her recently published book, Portrait of a Woman in Silk:...

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...

I’ve written previously about wanting to explore ideas and thoughts for my next research project on this blog. Today I’d like to do so by...

I’ve written previously about wanting to explore ideas and thoughts for my next research project on this blog. Today I’d like to do so by...

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...

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to help with the implementation of this year’s Sutton Trust History Summer School, hosted by the...

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to help with the implementation of this year’s Sutton Trust History Summer School, hosted by the...

My pick of the week is the forthcoming exhibition at Edinburgh Museum A Wise Man Knows His Craft: Henry Taylor Wyse and Holyrood Pottery,...

My pick of the week is the forthcoming exhibition at Edinburgh Museum A Wise Man Knows His Craft: Henry Taylor Wyse and Holyrood Pottery,...

I’m excited to announce that I’ve been awarded a Research Funding Award from the British Association for Victorian Studies for research...

I’m excited to announce that I’ve been awarded a Research Funding Award from the British Association for Victorian Studies for research...

Like many researchers, I’m both interested and invested in the idea of productivity and the varying methods used to increase it. So it...

Like many researchers, I’m both interested and invested in the idea of productivity and the varying methods used to increase it. So it...

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,...