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PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA

Academic Publications:

ANXIETY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LETTERS: FAMILY LIFE AND IDENTITY IN THE CANNING CORRESPONDENCE

Book - In Progress

ANXIETY AS A PEDAGOGICAL TOOL FOR ENGAGING STUDENTS WITH THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 

Journal Article with The Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, forthcoming 

POSTCARD: THE 188-PAGE LETTER-MEMOIR: MARY ANNE CANNING'S LIFE WRITING AS A DEFENCE OF HER MOTHERHOOD 

Book Chapter in Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange, forthcoming February 2026

BOOK REVIEW: MCCORMACK, MATTHEW, RUTH LARSEN AND ALICE MARPLES EDS, INNOVATIONS IN TEACHING HISTORY: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION (LONDON: UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PRESS, 2024) 

2025

THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BATH MARRIAGE MART REASSESSED

Book Chapter in Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Assembly Room, April 2025

ANXIOUS EXPRESSIONS IN THE CANNING FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, 1760-1830

PhD, 2024

'THE IHR'S SEMINAR CULTURE: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE - A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION' IN TALKING HISTORY: SEMINAR CULTURE AT THE INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH, 1921-2021

Publication May 2024

 Contribution to this chapter, specifically looking at the History Lab, the postgraduate seminar series of the IHR

DISTANT COMMUNICATIONS: BEYOND DEATH SPECIAL ISSUE

Cultural and Social History, February 2024

This is a special issue derived from the Distant Communications conference in July 2021. I co-authored the 'Introduction' with Ellen Smith and was co-guest editor. 

A MOTHER EDUCATING HER DAUGHTER REMOTELY THROUGH FAMILIAL CORRESPONDENCE: THE LETTER AS A FORM OF FEMALE DISTANCE EDUCATION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

 Journal Article with History, January 2022

Open Access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13237

REVIEW: BARCLAY, KATIE, AND FRANÇOIS SOYER, EDS, EMOTIONS IN EUROPE 1517–1914, VOL. 4,

TRANSFORMATIONS 1789–1914 (ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE, 2021)

December 2021

Non-Academic Outputs:

LIZ TRUSS IS NOW THE UK'S SHORTEST SERVING PRIME MINISTER - HOW DOES SHE STACK UP AGAINST GEORGE CANNING WHO PREVIOUSLY HELD THE RECORD?

October 2022

HISTORY OF EDUCATION PODCAST

February 2022

Discussion of my article on Female Remote Education through Letters. Available here: https://historyofeducation.org.uk/4823-2/ including a transcript

WHAT ONE GEORGIAN FAMILY CAN TEACH US ABOUT WRITING LETTERS IN THE AGE OF ZOOM, 'THE CONVERSATION'

July 2021

https://theconversation.com/what-one-georgian-family-can-teach-us-about-writing-letters-in-the-age-of-zoom-163777

NEW DIRECTIONS IN EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY ART BLOG POST

May 2021

Eighteenth Century Objects of Grief: Beyond the Mourning Ring https://ndenca.wordpress.com/blog-2/

STAGE AND SCREENED: HOW MARY ANN CANNING INFLUENCED GEORGE CANNING'S IDENTITY GENDER AND SEXUALITY MAGAZINE, 4, (JUNE 2019)

Published June 2019

https://issuu.com/swwdtpgenderandsexualityresearch/docs/gendered_voicess_issue_four_emotion_and_identity

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