Last week, I was very pleased to receive the news that I have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.  It’s a real honour, and another milestone along the way.  My grateful thanks go to Professor Anne Curry for supporting my application – in fact her ongoing support for and interest in…

This is the final post in a short series about my trip to Utrecht, to the EDPOP conference European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture: A Comparative Approach.   I wanted to see something more of Utrecht, so while I was there I took the opportunity to visit the Museum Catharijneconvent, which holds a fascinating collection…

Originally posted on Museum Development North West: Earlier this year Lancashire County Council announced that Helmshore and Queen Street Mill Textile Museums, which had been closed to the general public since 2016, were going to be partially reopened; since then staff and volunteers have done sterling work to get both sites ready. In the latest…

This is the third post in a short series about my trip to Utrecht, to the EDPOP conference European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture: A Comparative Approach. The second day of the conference (which was, thankfully, slightly cooler than the first) began with our news panel: News – Intermediality and mobility, coordinated and chaired by…

This is the second in a short series of posts about my trip to Utrecht, to the EDPOP conference: European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture: A Comparative Approach. After the various opening and introductory sessions (which took more than 3 hours), it was time for Session 1: The circulation and materiality of parodic and comic…