​Democratizing Knowledge:
In Chambers's Encyclopaedia

At the end of August, I presented a paper at the The British Association for Victorian Studies Conference: Victorian Age(s). I was...

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I spent Saturday in Peebles. My husband and children came up Saturday evening from Sheffield so that we could all go to Peebles for a...

I found a reference in UK RED to a work by Philip Waller that G. K. Chesteron had been reading Chambers’s Encyclopaedia. Chesterton wrote...

The 19th century, like our own times, was full of contradictions. I say this because of the material I’ve been looking at recently. Last...

This will be a very busy week for me. I'm spending lots of time in the NMS offsite collection store facility and looking at specific...

There will be quite a few interesting conferences and workshops that I'll be attending this summer, as well as presenting at 2...

I came across this post by Dr Bethan Stevens (from the University of Sussex) about different audience experience in the 19th Century...

No, those are not words referring to the modern environmental movement, they are about Chambers’s publications and the reuse and...

You’re probably wondering why there is an image of a ship on this blog. Not only does it look like the ship I helped Malcolm (the NLS...