Lists & roundups
History writing, history, and writing #11
Social history, women’s education, typewriters, woodsmen, and war.
History writing, history, and writing #10
The art of naming women, working-class computer pioneers, literary forgeries, ruins, and ghost signs.
History writing, history, and writing #9
Historic pubs, white horses, teaching women’s history, and lusting after ruins.
History writing, history, and writing #8
Re-writing one woman’s history, a woman who wrote her own history, a sorceress’ kit, and a printer’s devil.
History writing, history, and writing #7
Women’s journals, positive plague outcomes, history detectives, and printing silk maps.
History writing, history, and writing #6
Handbags, manuscripts, Night Witches, and another London relic revisited.
History writing, history, and writing #5
Digital archives, bone music, purple dye, and textile design.
History writing, history, and writing #4
A literary theory, librarians, the right to light, and a cheeky cat.
History writing, history, and writing #3
A forgotten scholar, feminine figures, graffiti, and a doghouse.
History writing, history, and writing #2
Irish women, Neolithic people, colonisation, and Napolean.
History writing, history, and writing #1
Books and archives, champagne, mythology, and the transmission of ideas.
Favourite sentences and paragraphs from stories I read this year (2024)
Disorderly notebooks, irregular libraries, typing monkeys, and trust in a bystander having a ciggie.
Favourite sentences and paragraphs from stories I read this year (2023)
As is traditional around this time, I've compiled an end of year list. Each year I keep a file of snippets from stories that struck a chord with me....
Favourite sentences from stories I read this year (2022)
As is traditional around this time, I've compiled an end of year list. Taking inspiration from Ann Friedman (here’s her 2022 list), this year I...