​Democratizing Knowledge:
In Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Thanks to the Royal Historical Society and the Bibliographical Society who provided a modest amount of funding, I spent a week and a half...

I'm going to be giving a public talk at Sheffield Central Library on Thursday, 1 December from 10:30-11:30. The event is free, but...

In Victorian London, ‘woodpeckers’ or ‘peckers’ was slang for wood engravers. At this time, wood engraving was the medium of mass...

I spent the last two days in Cardiff at the British Association of Victorian Studies, held at Cardiff University. Because of the...

We spent one day of our family vacation with the kids in Kent at Down House, the former residence of Charles Darwin, now run by English...

There is a podcast that I listen to called This American Life. The latest podcast is about Captain's logs and "neutral language" which...

Over the next month I'm working on trying to write 30,000 words, a first draft of a segment of my thesis, because I blinked and suddenly...

This is the end of two weeks that I've spent in Edinburgh. I took some data on blocks for the 1st edition and 2nd edition of the...

My latest book review on Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street by Mary L. Shannon,...

Sometimes it's a good idea to read just outside of the area you are studying, just to get a bit more perspective. In my spare time (what...