Martha

I wrote before about the fortune-telling exhibition I created (with Imogen Knox and Francesca Farnell) to celebrate Coventry’s year as City of Culture. Reading people’s… Read More »Stars, Sieves & Stories

Something exciting happened last week (June 2022): I finally received the professionally printed version of Witch Hunt 1649! Lots of it. Enough boxes to occupy… Read More »Witch Hunt 1649

2021 was Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture, and the University of Warwick contributed the Resonate Festival, a year-long programme of talks, events and… Read More »Fortune-telling exhibition

After not having published anything in academic journals for a little while (babies are distracting), I’ve had a few pieces appear at once. Co-authored with… Read More »Some recent publications

I’m always interested in finding new ways to tell curious stories from the past. Recently I’ve been experimenting with shadow puppetry. I’ve run a couple… Read More »Shadow puppets

Hello, and welcome to the site! I’ll be posting notifications here on the rare occasions that I actually finish things. In exciting short-term news, I… Read More »Welcome