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Mar 22, 20211 min read

Art on the Radio - Article for Apollo Magazine

Read my article about art on the radio for Apollo Magazine here, featuring Jerry Brotton's series of The Essay, 'Blood and Bronze' for...

Mar 4, 20211 min read

Article about V&A Proposals in The Telegraph

My article about the fatally-flawed proposals for rearranging the V&A's curatorial and conservation departments is out in the Telegraph:...

Feb 4, 20211 min read

Henry VIII'S Crown Jewels?

I wrote about the recent discovery of a gold figure of Henry VI in a field in the Midlands for Apollo Magazine, article online now:...

Jan 25, 20211 min read

Stitches in Time - Review in January Apollo

My review of Marking Time: Objects, People and their Lives, 1500-1800, ed. Ed Town and Angela McShane (Yale University Press, 2020) is...

Dec 3, 20201 min read

Talking Tudors Podcast: Tudor Neuroscience

Last week I recorded an episode of the podcast Talking Tudors with Natalie Grueninger, on 'Tudor Neuroscience' or what Tudor people...

Nov 12, 20201 min read

Interview for Evening Standard Podcast on the Mary Wollstonecraft Sculpture

I gave an interview to The Leader, the Evening Standard Podcast, on the new sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft by Maggi Hambling. Catch up...

Oct 29, 20201 min read

Article on threatened Royal College of Physicians rare books sale in Apollo Magazine

The Royal College of Physicians is considering proposals to sell off its superb collection of rare books to plug a funding hole. I wrote...

Oct 29, 20201 min read

Lively Limnings in British Art Studies Journal

My article 'Lively Limning: Presence in Portrait Miniatures and John White's Limnings of the New World' was published in the September...

Oct 29, 20201 min read

Two Newly-Discovered Flap Engravings by Thomas Gemini in Print Quarterly

My article 'Two Newly-Discovered Flap Engravings by Thomas Gemini' was published in the September edition of Print Quarterly, vol XXXVII,...

Aug 20, 20201 min read

Fashioning the Virgin Queen

Elizabeth I was meant to be a boy; how did artists deal with representing this unprecedented monarch? Read my take on portraits of...

Jul 17, 20201 min read

Tudor Neuroscience at the Virtual Summer Festival of Learning

What did Tudor people think went on in the brain? What does a memory worm have to do with it? I'm delighted to be presenting my talk...

Jun 17, 20201 min read

Seeing is Believing at the Index of Evidence

I recently wrote two posts for the Index of Evidence: https://www.indexofevidence.org/the-index The Index is a project based at the...

May 26, 20201 min read

The Procession to Calvary in Apollo Magazine

I wrote about indie game developer Joe Richardson's Rabelaisian computer game 'The Procession to Calvary' for Apollo Magazine last week,...

May 18, 20201 min read

Ghost Story & Interview Published Online

St John's College, Cambridge have put my latest ghost story, 'The Advent Visitor' (originally published in Ghosts & Scholars Magazine in...

May 17, 20201 min read

Mechanical Amusements - Upcoming Broadcast on Radio 3

On 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 11, 20201 min read

Women in Horology

I am honoured to have been included in Bob Frishman's latest bulletin for the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC)...

May 1, 20201 min read

Directness and Intimacy in Hilliard's Miniatures

My article '“it seemeth to be the thing itsefe”: Directness and Intimacy in Nicholas Hilliard’s Portrait Miniatures' is now out in the...

Apr 23, 20201 min read

Hilary Mantel and Tudor Art

I 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 20, 20201 min read

New Research Fellows Announced at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge

From 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 8, 20201 min read

Apocalypse Now

My piece on Jeremiah 4 for the online 'Visual Commentary on Scripture' is now online. I wrote about climate change, internal conflict,...

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