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I’m thrilled that my paper ‘Inheriting Strawberry Hill: Shared Practices and Shared Spaces’ has been accepted for next year’s...

Serena Reading, by James Hopwood Sr, published by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, after George Romney stipple engraving, published 1 October 1811...

Serena Reading, by James Hopwood Sr, published by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, after George Romney stipple engraving, published 1 October 1811...

I’m excited to be presenting my paper ‘Publishing Wilkes’s ‘Villakin’: Reading, Reception and Reputation at Sandown Cottage’ at the...

I’m excited to be presenting my paper ‘Publishing Wilkes’s ‘Villakin’: Reading, Reception and Reputation at Sandown Cottage’ at the...

My review of Heather McPherson’s 2017 book Art and Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds and Siddons is now available online as an early view...

My review of Heather McPherson’s 2017 book Art and Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds and Siddons is now available online as an early view...

I’m currently on a Short-Term Research Fellowship at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, and next month I’ll...

I’m currently on a Short-Term Research Fellowship at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, and next month I’ll...

Anne Vallayer-Coster, Still-Life with Tuft of Marine Plants, Shells and Corals, 1769. I’m hugely excited to be working with Molly Duggins...

Anne Vallayer-Coster, Still-Life with Tuft of Marine Plants, Shells and Corals, 1769. I’m hugely excited to be working with Molly Duggins...

I’m currently in London for the Association for Art History’s 2018 Annual Conference, which is being held between the Courtauld Institute...

I’m currently in London for the Association for Art History’s 2018 Annual Conference, which is being held between the Courtauld Institute...

I’m absolutely delighted to have been awarded a six-month Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art to conduct...

I’m absolutely delighted to have been awarded a six-month Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art to conduct...

The programme and registration details for our conference Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Collected and Composite Forms, 1700-Present are...

The programme and registration details for our conference Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Collected and Composite Forms, 1700-Present are...

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Week in Review post, which is a shame as I find them a useful resource to look back on, particularly...

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Week in Review post, which is a shame as I find them a useful resource to look back on, particularly...

I’m thrilled to announce that my book, Domestic Space in Late Georgian Britain: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion, c. 1750-1840 is now...