My (ongoing) website presents aspects of my research for a global audience. It is the only working archive of the history of the cinema usherette. It contains unique photographs, oral history testimony and written articles.REF submission: Several elements of this projec...

This article reconsiders Mary Tudor's victory in the succession crisis of July 1553. It challenges the traditional interpretation which accounts for Mary's unexpected triumph as the result of a 'spontaneous' rising of the East Anglian gentry. Instead it reclaims a centr...

The thesis examines the career of the artist and craft worker Phoebe Traquair (1B52-1936) and her role in both the establishment and development of an Edinburgh arts and, crafts school between the 1880s and the 1920s, The first chapter looks at early influences on Traqu...

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In nineteenth-century France, science and religion have often been portrayed as irredeemably opposed to one another. This article seeks to revise this interpretation by showing how these apparently dissonant views intermingled in the study of hysteria. Through a survey ...

Using a substantial set of vagrancy removal records for Middlesex (1777–86) giving details of the place of origin of some 11,500 individuals, and analysing these records using a five-variable gravity model of migration, this article addresses a simple question: from whi...

The number of prehistoric ceramic studies in Catalonia has increased since the beginning of this century. Most of these studies regard pottery as the result of a technological process and focus on raw material procurement, modifications of clay and technological aspects...