Writing & research
A (not so) crazy idea came to me in the queue for the bar
A textile art project with an unlikely inspiration.
Mary Linwood showed that women’s needlework was indeed art
Her permanent exhibition of embroidery was one of 19th-Century London’s most celebrated attractions.
Women: can’t produce an heir without them; often denied the privilege of inheriting like one
How cultural and legal conventions prevented women from staying in their ancestral homes.
Alice Cornwallis made damn fine desserts
My search for a half-named woman from the 16th Century.
‘A Survey of London’: a pioneering history of a rapidly changing city
‘A visionary conception’ of telling the story of 16th and 17th-Century London.
A brief history of the development of the field of women’s history
Let’s get meta this Women’s History Month.
What is public history?
Why and how I do what I do.
Is it time to re-examine the ‘witch’ as a symbolic feminist figure?
Or at least, make sure we’re clear about and comfortable with its origin story?
What’s in a recipe book?
The simple name that belies a wealth of culinary, medical, scientific, and social historical knowledge.
How women’s ability to read and write could be both damning and redeeming
‘In relation to literacy, most early modern women could not win.’
How a 16th Century book lover approached the threat of the Dissolution of the Monasteries
John Leland found a way to balance his devotion to literature and history with his loyalty to Henry VIII.
Research: the influence of women’s under-representation on women history practitioners
Analysis of a data sub-set from an online survey of almost 1,000 history practitioners. This is the third (and final, for now) in a series of...
Research: the state of women’s (under)representation in history outputs
Findings from an analysis of almost 27,000 history outputs from 2024. This is the second in a series of articles drawn from my Public Histories MA...
Research: the who, what, and why of history practice today
Findings from an online survey of almost 1,000 history practitioners. This is the first in a series of articles drawn from my Public Histories MA...
The candid smile that caused a stir
The ‘unfortunate incident’ of the queen photographed having a good time.