​Democratizing Knowledge:
In Chambers's Encyclopaedia

2025

11 October, Speaker 'Illustrating Dogs in Dickens’ Novels' ‘Dickens and Art’ Dickens Day Conference 2025, School of Advanced Studies, University of London

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Past Research-Related Travel:

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2024

12 November, Speaker 'Named Awards and the Influence of Kate Greenaway on Illustrations and Illustrators' 
Portico Library Events

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2023

30 October, Speaker 'Curating Children's Literature.' 
Diverse Literatures, Diverse Literacies Conference.
Bishop Grosseteste University

12-14 June, Speaker 'Working Women: Chambers's Encyclopaedia Authors and Translators, 1850-1900.' Women, Money and Markets Conference.
Sheffield Hallam University
 

2022

6-7th September, Speaker 'Approaches to accessible and inclusive staff development: benefits for all'. Redefining Engagement: Connections, Collections, and Communities Mercian Collaboration Annual Conference. 

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31 March, Speaker 'Political Cartoons: Political and Social Satire through the centuries' Sheffield Central Library Events

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2021
20-21 July, Speaker `Imagining the Alps during the nineteenth-century tales of the Great St Bernard and peaks, passes, and glaciers'.  A Visitor attraction: printing for tourists webinar.
 

1-2 July, Speaker for the session Decolonialising the Curriculum @ BGU with Dr Jonathan Memel, and Dr Sheine Pert. BGU Learning and Teaching Conference 2021: Access, Participation and Inclusivity, Lincoln (online)

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2020

November 30, Speaker at History of the Printed Image Network Webinar

Further travel plans disrupted by Covid-19 pandemic

February - March 2020, UCLA Clark Library

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2019

12-14 2019, December Research in NLS, Edinburgh

6-7 November, Cultures of the Book Conference: Science, Technology and the Spread of Human Knowledge, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy

18-21 July, Graduation Ceremony University of Reading, and London visit
20-21 June, Workshop for Images, Copyright, and the Public Domain, Paris

4 January - March, Teaching Winter Quarter, UCLA, Los Angeles

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2018

12-13 December, NMS Meetings, Edinburgh

21-22 November, Viva Voce, Reading

20-21 September Leeds Library Conference, Leeds

14 September, Women in Print Conference, Birmingham

22 August, Supervisor Meeting, Reading

21 June, Supervisor Meeting, London

30 April -25 May, Historical Society of Pennsylvania Fellowship, Philadelphia

13 April, Supervisor Meeting, London

20-21 March, Meeting in Edinburgh

8 January - March, Teaching Winter Quarter, UCLA

 

2017

21 December - Supervisor meeting, BL, London

6-9 December - Edinburgh
20-24 November - Edinburgh

8-9 October - Good, Fast, Cheap APHA + CHAViC, Amer. Antiquarian Society MA
21 September - Blocks, Plates Stone Conference, London, poster 

5 August - Study Day, Manchester

3 August - Study Day, Manchester

31 July - 1 August, Supervisors Meeting Edinburgh

28 July Study Day, Manchester
13-14 July - Speaker ARLIS Conference & launch of Art Researcher's Guide to Liverpool 

7-9 July- Speaker British Society for the History of Science Conference, York

20 June - PhD Research Conference, Reading

15-19 May - Research, Edinburgh

25 April - Speaker at Using Archives CDP training, London

20-24 March - Research in Edinburgh

13 March - Lecture on W. & R. Chambers for TY1HIS, Reading

27 February - Lecture on Baskerville & Bodoni for TY1HIS, Reading

6 February - Lecture on Plantin & Estienne for TY1HIS, Reading

11 January - Study day Leeds
 

2016

 8 December -My Doctoral Seminar, Reading

 1 December - Talk 'Late Victorian Book Illustration' Sheffield Central Library

11 November - Edinburgh

10 November - AHRC Partnership meeting, Stirling

31 October - 9 November, HSP Philidephia USA

18-19 October, NLS Edinburgh

26-28 September, University of Sheffield, Study Days, Penny Cyclopaedia

12-16 September, Research NMS, Edinburgh

31 August - 1 September BAVS Conference, Cardiff

11-14 and 18-21 July Research at NMS, Edinburgh

9-13 and 16-20 May Research at NMS/NLS, Edinburgh

19-22  April Research at (NMS/NLS), public programs talk, Edinburgh

11-15 April  Research at NMS, Edinburgh

21-24  March Research at NLS, Edinburgh

16-17 March RRDP Training & Doctoral Seminar, Reading

7-10 March Research at NLS, Edinburgh

3-5 February, Becoming Animal with Victorians, Paris

25 February, My Doctoral Seminar, Reading

28 January, Doctoral Seminar, Reading

25 January, RRDP Training, "Public Speaking" Reading
4-8 Jan Research at NMS, Edinburgh (possibly 11-13 too)

2015

14-17 December - Research at NMS, Edinburgh

4 December -Illustrating History/Illustré l'historie, Université de Valenciennes, France

10 December - Doctoral Seminar & Supervisor meeting, Reading

25-26 November - CPD 2nd Year Training, "Making Exhibitions,"  London

23-25 November-Research at NMS, Edinburgh

16-17 November-RRDP Training,  A. & C. Black Archive Research, Reading

2-4 November - Research at NLS, NMS & CPD Meeting, Edinburgh

5-7 October -Research in Edinburgh

10-11  September Communities of Communication Conference, Edinburgh

7-9 September - Research in Edinburgh

27-28 August - BAVS Conference, Leeds
​20-23 and 27-31 July - Research in Edinburgh

15-16 July   -ARLIS Conference: Minning for Innovation: Book Launch

10 July         -Copyright, Intellectual Property and Ethics in Cultural and Heritage

23-24 June  -Print Identification Course

22 June       -2015 PHRC  Annual Photography in Print Conference

23  April      - Doctoral Seminar, University of Reading

1    April      - Print and Digital Cultures, University of Dundee

5   March     - Doctoral Seminar & RRDP, University of Reading

4   March     - CDP 1st Year Training, Researching Objects and Material Culture

5,12 & 26 Feb - Doctoral Seminar & RRDP, University of Reading

30  January    - Bibliography Workshop, University of Edinburgh

28   January   - RRDP, How to Write a Thesis, University of Reading

23   January   - Doctoral Seminar, Digital Scholarship, British Library

16   January   - RRDP, Research in Social Sciences, University of Reading

15   January   - Doctoral Seminar, University of Reading

14   January   - Traces Thru Time Data Workshop, Senate House, London

7-8 January   - Wood Engraving course with Chris Daunt, Newcastle

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2014

  1 December  - National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

  2 December  - CDP, National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh
11 December  - History of Reading Workshop, University of Stirling 

18 November - Study day at Chethams' Library, Manchester

27 November - Doctoral Seminar, University of Reading

28 November - Study day the British Library, London