Current Projects
Past Projects
CV
- The Language of Flowers (Beatrix Potter Gallery, Hawkshead, 2022)
- Photographing Fairies (Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, 2021)
- Wildflowers: Growing Up in Edwardian Wimborne (East Dorset Museum, 2018)
- Edinburgh Alphabet (City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 2017)
- It’s Alive! The House of Automata (Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh, 2017)
- Bedtime Stories (Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh, 2016)
- Clangers, Bagpuss & Co (Young V&A, 2016)
- Small Stories: At Home in a Dolls’ House (Young V&A, 2014)
- A Treasured Collection (Young V&A, 2013)
- Mascots of the Olympic Games (Young V&A, 2012)
- Walking in my Shoes (Cuming Museum, 2011)
- Founding editor: Digital Childhoods (2023-24)
An online magazine for the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth. - Co-creator / editor: Quizogyny (2019-)
A feminist pub quiz zine of not-so-general knowledge. - Publisher: Wide Open Sea
Indie micro-press publishing lovingly made books in collaboration with passionate souls. Includes crowdfunding for creative projects, management of design, editing and publishing books, zines, ebooks and audiobooks - Material Legacies of Slavery in the Scottish Borders (2021). A zine-map project investigating links between property and historic slavery.
- ‘Tottie: A Dreadful Dolls’ House’, Horror Homeroom, forthcoming 2026
- ‘Creature costume creator Vin Burnham: in conversation’ The Invisible Labour of Costume, Manchester University Press, forthcoming, 2026
- ‘Dreams as History’, Imaginative Pasts Edited Collection, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026
- ‘Preface’, Caw! Caw! Tale of the Crows (new edn of Jemima Blackburn illustrations), Doric Press, August 2024
- ‘Fantasies and Realities of Children’s Costume on Stage, 1925-6’, Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (Vol 15, December 2023)
- ‘Fairy Fever in the Aftermath of the First World War’. SELCIE: Scotland’s Early Literature for Children Initiative. University of Edinburgh (March 2021)
- ‘Photographing Fairies: Making and Faking Photos a Century After Cottingley’. Stills Centre for Photography (February 2021)
- ‘Windows on Play: Two Plastic Dolls Houses from the V&A’. Plastiquarian: Journal of the Plastics Historical Society (2015)
- ‘The Donne Buck archive at the V&A Museum of Childhood’, Journal of Play and Folklore (2015)
- ‘Creating the Characters’, Museums Journal, 115 (April 2015)
- ‘Professional Life in Miniature – The Killer Cabinet Dolls’ House’. Victorian Professions Blog University of Oxford (2015)
- ‘Radio Days: The Childhood of Lionel Hemsley’, Discover Your History Magazine (June 2014)
- Writer and commissioning editor for museum blogs: Stories of Childhood, Small Stories and Collecting Childhood (2012 – 2018)
- ‘Handmade: the hidden labour of costume makers’, The Hand, London College of Fashion, January 2026.
- ‘Annie Hadley, chief costume cutter’, Women Talking, University of Leeds, June 2025
- ‘Dreams as History, History of Dreams’, Imaginative Pasts, University of Essex, June 2023
- ‘Madame Grace Behenna’s Juvenile Jollities’, Not Only Dressed, Worthing Museum, April 2022
- ‘Photographing Fairies’, TORCH Oxford Childhood Colloquium, June 2022
- ‘The Shoe Doll: An Extraordinary Emergent Object’, Heritage Out of Control. Max Planck Institute, May 2021
- ‘Children’s Dreams’, Dream Cultures Conference. University of Helsinki, September 2019
- ‘Tricks of the Light: Fantasies in Historical Research’, Historian’s I Conference. University of Essex, June 2019
- ‘What do Little Girls Want?’, Children’s Traces. Magdalen College, Oxford, June 2018
- ‘Dream Daddies and the First World War’, Edinburgh Napier University, May 2018
- ‘Unheard Voices: Family Collections in Museums’, Children’s History Society, KCL, June 2016
- Keynote lecture: Small Worlds Symposium. No 1 Royal Crescent Bath. November 2015
- Featured curator, This is Love podcast: Beatrix Potter’s sheep. Sept 2023
- Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top, Royal Oak Foundation online talk / exhibition tour. May 2023
- The Language of Flowers, Beatrix Potter Society online talk / exhibition tour. July 2022
- Featured curator, Cleaning Britain’s Greatest Treasures: Hill Top, More 4. May 2022
- Photographing Fairies, Edinburgh Art Festival, online talk / exhibition tour. May 2021
- Show and Tell, Glasgow Zine Fest, online. April 2021
- Edwardian Wimborne, Museum of East Dorset. September 2018
- The Shoe Doll and her Little Lovett Friends, City Art Centre Edinburgh. July 2017
- Profile, ‘Curator of the Month’, Art Fund. July 2017
- Public talk: Characters in the Collection, Weston Park, Sheffield. November 2017
- Featured curator, Doll houses as history and therapy, CBS News, USA. January 2017
- Featured curator, The Private Life of a Dolls’ House, BBC Four. 2014/September 2019
- Profile article, Kinfolk Magazine. September 2015
- Curating and Interpreting for a Family Audience, V&A International Course. July 2015
- Multiple appearances on Robert Elms Show on BBC Radio London. 2012, 2014, 2016
