In residence at the 'City of Brotherly Love'
I’ve started my short-term fellowship, and have been in Philadelphia for a week. I feel like I’ve made a good start. I’ve come across...
Democratising Knowledge is up at the National Museums Scotland website
The online resource I've been working on for the past few months with staff at NMS, namely my supervisor, Curator Alison Taubman, and...
Teaching a course at UCLA
From 1999-2001 I studied at the UCLA Department of Information Studies, which is where I got my Masters in Library and Information...
Transatlantic Connections session, APHA
This month I journeyed to Old, New England to attend "Good, Fast, Cheap: Printed words and Images in America before 1900." It was a...
Five unusual items from the University of Reading Special Collections
I just spotted this link when I was doing a COPAC search and thought I'd promote it as most of these items are from the 19th century....
To what extent did illustrations aid readers' understanding of content in Chambers's Encyclo
One of the questions I'm trying to answer with my research is: To what extent did illustrations aid readers' understanding of content? ...
Woodpeckings: Victorian prints, book illustration and word-image narratives
I had the pleasure of attending part of this 2-day conference at the British Museum, which was organised by Bethan Stevens and George...
Some final PhD Year plans
In addition to work that I'll be doing for National Museums Scotland at the end of the year on an online resource for the W. & R....
More on Walter Crane and drawing for woodblocks
Today I visited John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester to see the Walter Crane Archive. I was curious to see if any of...
Some famous names worked on Chambers's Encyclopaedia
Walter Crane (1845 – 1915), was one of the most influential and prolific English artists and book illustrators. When one thinks of the...
