Jun 171 minSeeing is Believing at the Index of EvidenceI recently wrote two posts for the Index of Evidence: https://www.indexofevidence.org/the-index The Index is a project based at the Unive...
May 261 minThe Procession to Calvary in Apollo MagazineI wrote about indie game developer Joe Richardson's Rabelaisian computer game 'The Procession to Calvary' for Apollo Magazine last week, ...
May 181 minGhost Story & Interview Published OnlineSt John's College, Cambridge have put my latest ghost story, 'The Advent Visitor' (originally published in Ghosts & Scholars Magazine in ...
May 171 minMechanical Amusements - Upcoming Broadcast on Radio 3On Wednesday 20th May at 10pm I will be on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking talking about the 400th anniversary of Peter Munday's sighting of ...
May 111 minWomen in HorologyI am honoured to have been included in Bob Frishman's latest bulletin for the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC) ...
May 11 minDirectness and Intimacy in Hilliard's MiniaturesMy article '“it seemeth to be the thing itsefe”: Directness and Intimacy in Nicholas Hilliard’s Portrait Miniatures' is now out in the on...
Apr 231 minHilary Mantel and Tudor ArtI wrote for Apollo Magazine on Hilary Mantel's references to Tudor art in her Cromwell trilogy, the final volume of which 'The Mirror and...
Apr 201 minNew Research Fellows Announced at Gonville and Caius College CambridgeFrom October 2020 I will be a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Over the four years of the Fellowship I will aim ...
Apr 81 minApocalypse NowMy piece on Jeremiah 4 for the online 'Visual Commentary on Scripture' is now online. I wrote about climate change, internal conflict, va...
Mar 301 min'The Advent Visitor' Published in Ghosts & Scholars MagazineI'm delighted that my ghost story 'The Advent Visitor' has been published in Ghosts & Scholars Magazine no. 38. The story features a lege...
Oct 8, 20191 minRichard III in Apollo MagazineLast week I visited Hever Castle to see the unveiling of their newest acquisition, a late sixteenth- century portrait of Richard III. Rea...
Jul 18, 20191 minNew Generation Thinkers in Parliament!On 18th July the New Generation Thinkers visited Parliament for a reception hosted by Ed Vaizey MP. We each had 60 seconds to speak about...
Jul 11, 20191 minPop-up Anatomy on BBC Free ThinkingOn 11th July my 'Postcard' for BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking was broadcast. I was speaking about the amazing pop-up anatomy prints created by...
May 9, 20191 minBBC Radio 3: Introducing the New Generation Thinkers 2019The programme launching the 10 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinkers for 2019 was broadcast on 25th April 2019; if you missed it, it can be fo...
Mar 29, 20191 minHilliard and Oliver in ContextI spoke at the conference Hilliard and Oliver in Context at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 28th-29th March 2019. I gave the paper...
Mar 1, 20191 minNew Generation Thinkers 2019I am delighted to have been chosen as an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker for 2019. To find out more about the scheme and read about the o...
Feb 20, 20191 minBBC Radio 3 Free ThinkingI talked about portrait miniatures with Shahidha Bari on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking 'The Joy of Sewing, Poet Fatimah Asghar and Painting...
Feb 20, 20191 minElizabethan Treasures opens at NPGThe exhibition Elizabethan Treasures: Portrait Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver, is open at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from ...
Jan 18, 20191 minPlaceCloud App ReleasedI am honoured to be a Founding Expert for PlaceCloud App, a beautiful new app for geolocated podcasts known as PlaceCasts, or 'microdocum...
Oct 22, 20181 minTudor Time Machines article out in Renaissance Studies First ViewMy article 'Tudor time machines: Clocks and Watches in English Portraits c.1530-c.1630' forthcoming in Renaissance Studies is out now in ...