- Under the skin: anatomy, art and identity, Royal College of Physicians, London, October 2019--April 2020
- Under the skin: illustrating the human body, Royal College of Physicians, London, February--March 2019
- Reading Euclid/mathematical physicians, Royal College of Physicians, London (and online), June 2018
- Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee, Royal College of Physicians, London, January--June 2016
- Early medical printing and the Fasciculus medicinae of Johannes de Ketham, Royal College of Physicians, London, 19 May 2014
- Fred Hoyle: an online exhibition, St John's College, Cambridge, 2010-
- Various public events for the Fred Hoyle Project, St John's College, Cambridge, 2008-2011
Articles, Interviews and Publications
- Blog posts on various topics, Royal College of Physicians library, archive and museum blog, since July 2013.
- Bibliography of recent publications in the field of library history, published quarterly since March 2011 in Library & information history.
- 'Exhibiting Anatomy: a curators’ roundtable', with Nathan Flis, Annette Wickham and Keren Hammerschlag, The Polyphony (24 September 2021).
- 'Interview with a librarian', by Silke Lohmann, The Book Collector newsletter, 13 April 2021
- '"A very unjust affront?" William Harvey's experience of quarantine', Commentary (Royal College of Physicians) (April 2020), pp. 30-31.
- 'Art, science, power and identity: anatomy meets contemporary art', Commentary (Royal College of Physicians) (December 2019), pp. 26-8.
- Interview with Neil Bennett, 'What 500 years of medical illustration has taught us about art and anatomy' for Digital Arts, March 2019.
- Interview with Henry Broome, 'The bodies of society’s disadvantaged, the poor and people of colour, were most likely to be used and abused without consent' for Studio International magazine, March 2019.
- Interview on BBC Radio 4 Today, Wednesday 6 February 2019, on the subject of the Royal College of Physicians exhibition Under the skin: illustrating the human body and the history of dissection.
- With Dr Kristin Hussey, 'A treacherous course’: the influenza pandemic of 1918', Commentary (Royal College of Physicians) (June 2018), pp. 24-24.
- '"Thus doctors die like other men": the physician and the dance of death', Commentary (Royal College of Physicians) (February 2018), pp. 26-27.
- Interview on BBC Radio London Robert Elms show, Wednesday 28 February 2018, on the subject of the Royal College of Physicians museum.
- 'Was John Dee "The Original 007"?', Notes &; Queries 64: 2(June 2017), pp. 248-9.
- 'Library and history' in British Librarianship and Information Work, 2011-2015 (2017), ed. by John Bowman.
- Guest on BBC Radio 4 The museum of curiosity, series 9, episode 6, broadcast 2 September 2016.
- 'The young John Dee', History today (June 2016).
- 'Who was the inspiration for Shakespeare's Prospero?', Wellcome Library blog, 27 April 2016.
- ''Doctor' Dee: John Dee and medical practice', Wellcome Library blog, 8 April 2016.
- 'Uncovering the lost library of John Dee', CILIP Update (May 2016), pp. 31-34.
- 'Digitising the 19th century: the Royal College of Physicians, London, and the UK Medical Heritage Library' [PDF link], CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Newsletter 102 (March 2016), pp. 4-7.
- Interview on BBC Radio London Robert Elms show, Saturday 16 January 2016, on the subject of John Dee.
- 'The lost library of John Dee', London Mathematical Society Newsletter 454 [PDF link] (January 2016), pp. 22-3.
- 'Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee', Commentary (Royal College of Physicians) (December 2015), pp. 12-5.
- Feature article. 'Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee': a new exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians, London ', The watermark (newsletter of Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences) 39:1 (Winter 2015-2016), pp. 23-31.
- With Claire Sexton, 'Plagues, poetry and palsies: unusual items in the college collection', Commentary (Royal College of Physicians) (April 2015), pp. 26-7.
- 'Big bang! The Fred Hoyle Collection' in The Library Treasures of St John's College, Cambridge (Third Millennium, 2014), pp. 150-1.
- Interviewed by Robin Ince for 'Health Thyself: a History of Self Help', episode 2, 'Healthier', BBC Radio 4, 12 August 2014.
- With Claire Sexton, 'Sexual healing: a bibliographic history of the treatment of venereal disease', Commentary (Royal College of Physicians) (June 2014), pp. 26-7.
- With Peter Basham, 'Medical notes: music and the RCP', Commentary (Royal College of Physicians) (February 2014), pp. 26-7.
- Report on the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group seminar: ‘Show off your
special collections with a treasures volume!’, 22 January 2013, Rare books newsletter 95 (Summer 2013), pp. 5-6. [PDF link] - 'Library and information history' in British Librarianship and Information Work, 2006-2010 (2012), ed. by John Bowman, pp. 167-83.
- With Niamh Tumelty and Isla Kuhn, 'TeachMeet: librarians learning from each other', in Peter Godwin and Jo Parker, eds, Information Literacy Beyond Library 2.0 (London: Facet, 2012), pp. 191-202.
- 'Putting the social into social media', Sunrise: Newsletter of the CILIP East of England branch (link to pdf) (January 2012), p. 4.
- With Naomi Herbert, 'Teaching old books new tricks: how special collections outreach can help you, your career, and your library', Impact: journal of the Career Development Group (Autumn 2011), pp. 3-10.
- 'Special collections big bang', CILIP Update with Gazette (Access for CILIP members only) (April 2011), pp. 40-2
- Naked Astronomy podcast: Interview about the Hoyle Project (25 Mar. 2011).
- With Emma Cragg, 'Beyond books: what it takes to be a 21st century librarian', Guardian Careers (31 Jan. 2011).
- 'The Way to the Stars: Science Outreach at St John’s College Library, Cambridge', Sunrise: Newsletter of the CILIP East of England branch (link to pdf) (Summer 2010), pp. 7-9.
The Library Treasures of St John’s College, Cambridge, - See more at: http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/hidden-treasures-old-library-revealed#sthash.V37zTjTf.dpuf
Talks and Presentations
- 'Cataloguing pressed plants in books' (22 June 2023)
- 20 minute paper, plus workshop and panel discussion at "Flora in Folio", day 3 of EHBL 2023, the annual conference of the European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Group
- 'The library, archive and museum collections of the Royal College of Physicians' (6 July 2022)
- 40-minute talk at an Athenaeum Club Library Dinner
- 'That which can never be suppressed: LGBTQ+ history in the RCP collections' (17 February 2022)
- 45-minute LGBTQ+ history month talk, presented jointly with Felix Lancashire
- Antiquarian Booksellers' Association book collecting seminar (10 December 2019)
- 20 minute talk and discussion: 'Magic: from John Dee to Aleister Crowley', with Christina Oakley Harrington
- Royal College of Radiologists senior fellows forum: (2 October 2019)
- 45 minute talk: 'John Dee: Magic, Medicine and the Tudor World'
- Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems & Perspectives (6-8 June 2019)
- 20 minute paper: 'Dispersal and Development: The Building Blocks of the Dorchester Library' with Ed Potten
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh history talk: John Dee: Magic, Medicine and the Tudor World (20 March 2019)
- 50-minute talk, direct YouTube link.
- Digital Launch Event: The Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe (25 January 2019)
- Closing round table with Winston Tabb and Stephen Ferguson: 'Books, Reading, and Libraries: Past, Present, and Future'
- Copped Hall, Essex, Museums at Night (27 October 2018)
- 15-minute talk: 'John Dee and the Elizabethan Court'
- Seminar in the History of Libraries (5 June 2018)
- 'New perspectives on seventeenth-century libraries', with Robyn Adams and Jacqueline Glomski, 15 minute paper: 'Digging deeper into the Marquis of Dorchester's library'
- Dorothy Dunnet Society, Oxford Dunnett Day 2017 (10 July 2017)
- 45-minute talk: 'John Dee and his library'
- Historic Libraries forum annual conference 'Impact: New Audiences for Historic Collections' (18 November 2016)
- 20-minute paper: 'Attracting new audiences to the RCP: exhibiting John Dee's annotated books'
- Barber Surgeons' Historical Society (30 November 2016)
- 45-minute talk 'Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee'
- By permission of heaven: the story of the Great Fire of London (5 September 2016)
- 20-minute introduction to the history of the Royal College of Physicians before and immediately after the Great Fire of London
- What’s in a Name? Collections within the Collection (10 June 2016)
- 10-minute lightning talk: 'The 'lost' library of John Dee' at one-day workshop
- Museums Showoff (24 May 2016)
- 9-minute set: Will the real John Dee please stand up?
- University of Cambridge Librarians in Training: Project management for library staff (16 May 2016)
- 20-minute presentation: Curating Dee: managing the project 'Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee'
- John Dee late: inside Dee's miraculous mind (9 May 2016)
- 20-minute talk: Curating Dee: behind the scenes of ‘Scholar, courtier, magician and in-conversation.
- Archives for London seminar (3 March 2016)
- 45-minute talk: 'Scholar, courtier, magician': the lost library of John Dee
- John Dee of Mortlake Society AGM (13 October 2015)
- 45-minute talk: ‘Curating John Dee’: researching and preparing the John Dee exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians
- 'This calamitous year': plague, doctors and death (29 June 2015)
- 15-minute paper: 'Physicians and the plague: the College of Physicians in 1665'
- CILIP New Professionals Day (11 May 2012)
- Supporting materials for workshop: Special Collections Librarianship: a Brief Map of the Field on Prezi, as a pdf download.
- A Special Collections Career Path on Slideshare.
- Historic Libraries Forum Annual Meeting, 'Hard Times' (15 November 2011)
- Slides: 23 Things for Professional Development: Training and Networking in Hard Times on Slideshare.
- CILIP Umbrella Conference (12-13 July 2011)
- Poster about Library TeachMeets: download pdf (126 KB) (designed and presented by me)
- Poster about 23 Things for Professional Development (designed by me, presented by Claire Sewell)
- CILIP CDG New Professionals Conference (20 June 2011), with Naomi Herbert (winner of audience-voted 'best paper' prize)
- Slides: Teaching Old Books News Tricks: How Special Collections Outreach Can Help You, Your Career, and Your Library on Slideshare.
- Article: 'Teaching old books new tricks: how special collections outreach can help you, your career, and your library', Impact: journal of the Career Development Group (Autumn 2011)
- LILAC 2011 (18 Apr. 2011), with Niamh Tumelty
- Slides: 'TeachMeet - librarians learning from each other' on Slideshare
- History of Material Texts Seminar (24 Feb. 2011)
- Managing a curious collection: a brief overview of the challenges of the Fred Hoyle papers on Slideshare
- Ignite London 4 (8 Feb. 2011)
- Video: Why Libraries Are Great from chichard41 on Vimeo
- Slides: Just a Room Full of Stuff? Why Libraries are Great on Slideshare.
- Libraries@Cambridge 2011 (6 Jan. 2011)
- Presentation: Open Cambridge: Open Libraries on Prezi
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- Libraries@Cambridge 2010 (8 Jan. 2010)
- Future Proof V, Conference of Cooperation on Archives of Science in Europe, Barcelona (6-8 May 2009)
- Library and Information History Group annual conference (27 Mar. 2009)
- Open-access article pre-print: '"Our Learned Primate' and that 'Rare Treasurie": James Ussher's Use of Sir Robert Cotton's Manuscript Library, c. 1603–1655'
- Published Article: '"Our Learned Primate' and that 'Rare Treasurie": James Ussher's Use of Sir Robert Cotton's Manuscript Library, c. 1603–1655', Library & Information History 26:1 (March 2010), pp. 33-42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/175834909X12593371595824
- Spellbound: magic, ritual & witchcraft, Ashmolean Musuem Oxford, 31 August 2018 -- 6 January 2019, Museums Journal (December 2018), pp 52-54.
- Chris Paling, Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library (London: Constable, 2017). Library & information history 34:1 (2018), pp 72-73, https://doi.org/10.1080/17583489.2017.1412662.
- Pierre Delsaerdt, Tom Deneire, Susanna De Schepper, and Thomas Theyssens (eds), Proceedings of the CERL Seminar ‘Library History: Why, What, How? (special issue of Quaerendo, 46:2–3 (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 101–246), Library & information history 33: 3 (2017), pp. 218-19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17583489.2017.1335990.
- Jonathan M. Farlow, I’ve Seen it all at the Library: The View from Behind the Desk (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2015). Library & information history 31:4 (November 2015), pp. 285-6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17583489.2016.1145862.
- Julia Boffey, Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530 (London: British Library, 2012). Rare books newsletter 96 (Winter 2013), pp. 19-20. NB pdf link
- Tomas Lidman, Libraries and Archives: A Comparative Study (Oxford: Chandos, 2012). Rare books newsletter 95 (Summer 2013), pp. 22-3. NB pdf link
- S.P. Cerasano and Steven W. May (eds), In the Prayse of Writing: Early Modern Manuscript Studies, (London: British Library, 2012). Rare books newsletter 95 (Summer 2013), pp. 19-20. NB pdf link
- Ivan Boserup and David J. Shaw (eds), Virtual Visits to Lost Libraries: Reconstruction and Access to Dispersed Collections. Papers Presented on 5 November 2010 at the CERL Seminar Hosted by the Royal Library of Denmark, Copenhagen (CERL Papers 11) (London: Consortium of European Research Libraries. 2011). Library & information history 29:1 (March 2013), pp. 60-1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1758348912Z.00000000023.
- Markus Krajewski, Paper Machines: About Cards and Catalogues, 1548-1929 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2011). Rare Books Newsletter 93 (October 2012), pp. [20-1]. NB pdf link
- Cambridge Librarians TeachMeet
- 23 Things for Professional Development
- mashcat : mashed catalogue data / cataloguers and developers.
- Classmark Mittens: FREE Knitting Pattern inspired by libraries (March 2011)
- Free pattern: Classmark Mittens
Book and Exhibition reviews
Things I've helped to organise
Knitting