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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 23, 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 20, 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,...
Apr 8, 20201 min read
'The Advent Visitor' Published in Ghosts & Scholars Magazine
I'm delighted that my ghost story 'The Advent Visitor' has been published in Ghosts & Scholars Magazine no. 38. The story features a...
Mar 30, 20201 min read
Richard III in Apollo Magazine
Last week I visited Hever Castle to see the unveiling of their newest acquisition, a late sixteenth- century portrait of Richard III....
Oct 8, 20191 min read
New 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 18, 20191 min read
Pop-up Anatomy on BBC Free Thinking
On 11th July my 'Postcard' for BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking was broadcast. I was speaking about the amazing pop-up anatomy prints created by...
Jul 11, 20191 min read
BBC Radio 3: Introducing the New Generation Thinkers 2019
The programme launching the 10 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinkers for 2019 was broadcast on 25th April 2019; if you missed it, it can be...
May 9, 20191 min read
Hilliard and Oliver in Context
I spoke at the conference Hilliard and Oliver in Context at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 28th-29th March 2019. I gave the paper...
Mar 29, 20191 min read
New Generation Thinkers 2019
I 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...
Mar 1, 20191 min read
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking
I 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 min read
Elizabethan Treasures opens at NPG
The exhibition Elizabethan Treasures: Portrait Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver, is open at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from...
Feb 20, 20191 min read
PlaceCloud App Released
I am honoured to be a Founding Expert for PlaceCloud App, a beautiful new app for geolocated podcasts known as PlaceCasts, or...
Jan 18, 20191 min read
Tudor Time Machines article out in Renaissance Studies First View
My article 'Tudor time machines: Clocks and Watches in English Portraits c.1530-c.1630' forthcoming in Renaissance Studies is out now in...
Oct 22, 20181 min read
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