Articles, Featured Blogs, Publications and Experience



FEATURED BLOG POSTS 

  • Railway Work, Life and Death - A Local History Approach to E Beaumont -  July 2021 
  • Women's History Network - Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World - The Musical - Interview with Frances Mayli McCann - November 2021
  • History Bites UK - Women's Philanthropy in the Northampton Boot and Shoe Industry - The Life of Catherine Lewis - March 2022 
  • Women's History Network - Book Review - Remarkable Women of the Second World War: A Collection of Untold Stories New book by Victoria Panton Bacon
  • Women's History Network - Conference Report - Gender and Political Groups 1650 - 1950

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS 

  • Book Review - Moseley 1850-1900: Space, place and people in a middle class Birmingham Suburb by Janet Berry, MidlandsReview History , September 2024
  • Women's philanthropy and religion: The ladies of the Northampton shoe trade, 1870-1950, Religion Compass, Wiley Publications - November 2023 
  • Book Review - Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660–1834 by Kate Gibson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 320 pp. Social History  Volume 49, 2024 Issue 1 pp. 115-116

PUBLICATIONS 



PODCASTS


PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS

  • University of Northampton History Seminar Series - Summer Term - 'Ladies of Shoe Trade: Philanthropy, politics and the social significance of the wives and daughters of prominent boot and shoe manufacturers in Northampton 1850 - 1950 - May 2021
  • Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (Warwick University) - 'Ladies of the Shoe Trade: Philanthropy, politics and the social significance of the wives of prominent boot and shoe manufacturers in Northampton 1870 - 1950 - February 2022
  • University of Northampton Research Conference 2022 - 'Looking for Ladies: Finding Women in Local Resources' - Poster Competition - May 2022 
  • Being Human Festival - 'Ladies of the Shoe Trade: Philanthropy, Politics and Social Significance of the Wives of prominent shoe manufacturers in Northampton 1870-1950' - November 2022
  • Historical Association - 'Women, Religion and the Northampton Boot and Shoe Industry' - June 2023
  • University of Northampton Centre of Historical Studies - Wellbeing Past and Present Conference - 'Women and Welfare - Philanthropy in the Northampton Boot and Shoe Industry' - July 2023 
CONVENOR
  • Gender and Political Groups in Britain c1650-1950 Postgraduate Conference 2023- University of Northampton - May 2023 - With Kerry Love
RELEVENT WORK EXPERIENCE 
  • University of Northampton - Postgraduate Student Rep - Research Degrees Committee - May 2021 - Present
  • Women's History Network - Blog Editor - June 2021 - Present 
  • Gale Cengage - Digital Humanities User Engagement Program - Internship  June 2022-June 2023 
  • IHR History Lab - Membership Office - September 2021 - September 2022
  • Northampton Together: Civic Society for Northampton - Committee Member - March 2022 - March 2023 
  • University of Northampton - UniClub Tutor - History Tutor - October 2023 to April 2024

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