Below are all my publications. I have tried to provide links to published versions (whether open access or behind paywalls) and to green open access versions in an institutional repository. Where an item is listed as ‘post-print’, this means it is the final, peer-reviewed, submitted version.
Major publications (books, digital resources etc)
- (Ed. with Caroline Archer-Parré), Letterpress Printing: Past, Present, Future (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2023).
- (ed., with Graeme Gooday), A Pioneer of Connection: Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
- (Ed., with Laurel Brake), ‘W.T.Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary’, special issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 16 (2013).
- (Ed., with Laurel Brake, Ed King, and Roger Luckhurst), W.T. Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary (London: British Library, 2012).
- The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012).
- (Ed., with others), Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) (2008).
- Science, Time and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press (Aldershot: Ashgate 2007).
Journal articles
- ‘Confused and Ill-Arranged: Reading Miscellaneity with Enquire Within’, Victorian Periodicals Review, 53 (2020), 496-519. Published version here (£). A postprint version is available via the White Rose repository here (OA).
- ‘Night Work or Night Play: Periodicals, Archives, and Poole’s Index’, Media (B)Orders Between Periodicals and Books. Miscellaneity and Classification in Nineteenth Century Magazines and Literature, Pfennig Magazin zur Journalliteratur 4 (2019), 34-43. A postprint version will be available from the White Rose repository here shortly (OA)
- ‘Repetition: Or, “In Our Last”’, Victorian Periodicals Review, 48 (2015), 343–58. Published version here (£) or via the White Rose Repository here (OA).
- ‘“Of the Making of Magazines There is No End”: W.T. Stead, Newness, and the Archival Imagination’, English Studies in Canada, 41 (2015), 69-91. Published version here (£) or here (OA). A postprint version is available via the White Rose Repository here (OA).
- (with Imogen Clarke) ‘Conservative Attitudes to Old-Established Organs: Oliver Lodge and Philosophical Magazine‘, Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 69 (2015), 321-336. Published version available here (OA). A postprint version is available from the White Rose repository here (OA).
- ‘“Scarers in Print”: Media Literacy from Our Mutual Friend to Friend Me on Facebook’, Gramma, 21 (2013), 163-178 [published in 2015]. Published version available here (OA). A post-print version is available via the White Rose repository here (OA).
- ‘Elemental Forms: The Newspaper as Popular Genre in the Nineteenth Century’, Media History, 20 (2014), pp. 4-20. Published version available here (£). A postprint version of this paper is available from the White Rose Repository here (OA).
- ‘Specular Reflections: John Brett and the Mirror of Venus’, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (2013), 1–19. Published version available here (OA).
- (with Laurel Brake), ‘Introduction’, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 16 (2013), 1-7. Published version available here (OA) and in the University of Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- ‘The Passing of Print: Digitizing Ephemera and the Ephemerality of the Digital’, Media History, 18 (2012), 77-92. Published version available here (£). Postprint version of this paper available in the University of Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- ‘Private Practices and Public Knowledge: Science, Professionalization and Gender in the Late Nineteenth Century’, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 5 (2009). Published version available here (OA). This is also available in the University of Birmingham’s eprints repository here (OA).
- ‘Arthur Cowper Ranyard, Knowledge and the Reproduction of Astronomical Photographs in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press’, British Journal for the History of Science, 42 (2009), pp. 321-344. Published version available here (£) or in Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- ‘Cohering Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century: Form, Genre and Periodical Studies’, Victorian Periodicals Review, 42 (2009), pp. 93-103. Published version available here (£) and in Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- ‘Nineteenth-Century Popular Science Magazines, Narrative, and the Problem of Historical Materiality‘, Journalism Studies, 8 (2007), pp. 656-666. Published version available here (£) and there is a post print version in Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- ‘Pandemic in print: the spread of influenza in the Fin de Siècle‘, Endeavour, 31 (2007), pp. 12-17.
- (with Suzanne Paylor) ‘Mapping the “Mighty Maze”: the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition’, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (2005). Published version available here (OA).
Chapters in books
- (with Caroline Archer-Parré) ‘Letterpress Printing: Past, Present, Future’, in Letterpress Printing: Past, Present, Future (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2023), pp. 1-16.
- ‘Trading in Death: Miscellaneity and Memory in the British Nineteenth-Century Press’, Reading Miscellanies, Miscellaneous Readings: Interrelations between Medial Formats, Novel Structures, and Reading Practices in the Nineteenth Century, ed. by Daniela Gretz, Marcus Krause, and Nico Pethes (Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2022), pp. 141-164.
- (with Graeme Gooday), ‘Oliver Lodge: Continuity and Communication’, in A Pioneer of Connection: Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge, ed. by James Mussell and Graeme Gooday (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), pp. 3-17.
- ‘“Body Separates: Spirit Unites”: Oliver Lodge and the Mediating Body’, in A Pioneer of Connection: Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge, ed. by James Mussell and Graeme Gooday (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), pp. 198-214.
- ‘“Seeking Nothing and Finding It”: Moving On and Staying Put in Mugby Junction’, Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century: Re-makings and Reproductions, edited by Linda Hughes and Julie Codell (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018). A postprint version is available here via the White Rose repository (OA).
- ‘Beyond the “Great Index”: Digital Resources and Actual Copies’, Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth Century Britain, edited by Joanne Shattock (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 17-30 (£). A postprint version is available via the White Rose repository (OA).
- ‘Digitization’, Routledge Companion to Victorian Periodicals, edited by Andrew King, Alexis Easley, and John Morton (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016), pp. 17-28. A postprint version of the chapter is available from the White Rose repository (OA).
- ‘The Foundation and Early Years of the News of the World: “Capacious Double Sheets”’, ‘Journalism for the Rich, Journalism for the Poor’: The News of the World and the British Press, 1843-2011, edited by Laurel Brake, Chandrika Kaul, and Mark Turner (Palgrave, 2016), pp.11-26. Published version is here (£). A postprint version of the chapter is available from the White Rose repository (OA).
- (with Richard Altick), ‘Publishing’, A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture, ed. by Herbert Tucker (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2014), pp.312-329.
- ‘“Characters of Blood and Flame”: Stead and the Tabloid Campaign’, in W.T. Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary, edited by Laurel Brake, Ed King, Roger Luckhurst and James Mussell (London: British Library, 2012), pp. 22-36. A post-print version of this chapter is available in the University of Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- ‘Doing and Making: History as Digital Practice’, in History in the Digital Age, ed. by Toni Weller (Abingdon: Routledge, 2012), pp. 79-94. A post-print version of this chapter is available in the University of Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- ‘Writing the ‘Great Proteus of Disease’: Influenza, Informatics, and the Body in the Late Nineteenth Century’, in Minds Bodies Machines, 1790-1920, ed. by Deidre Coleman and Hilary Fraser (Palgrave: 2011), pp. 161-178. A post-print version of this chapter is available in the University of Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- ‘Science’, in Dickens in Context, ed. by Sally Ledger and Holly Furneaux (Cambridge University Press: 2011), pp. 326-333. A post-print version of this chapter is available in the University of Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- ‘Science and the Timeliness of Reproduced Photographs in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press’, in The Lure of Illustration, ed. by Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009), pp. 203-219. A post-print version of this is available in the University of Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- (with Suzanne Paylor), ‘Editions and Archives: Textual Editing and the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse)’, in Text Editing, Print, and the Digital World, ed. by Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 137-158. A post-print version of this chapter is available in the University of Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- ‘Bug-Hunting Editors: Competing Interpretations of Nature in Late Nineteenth-Century Natural History Periodicals’, in (Re)creating Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. by Amanda Mordavsky Caleb (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007), pp. 81-96. The published version of this chapter is available via the University of Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- ‘“This is Ours and For Us”: The Mechanic’s Magazine and low scientific culture in Regency London’, in Repositioning Victorian Sciences, ed. by David Clifford et al. (London: Anthem Press 2006), pp. 107-118.
Shorter articles and posts
- ‘Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities, ed. by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jonathan R. Topham (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 424. $55.00 (cloth)’, Journal of British Studies, 62:1 (2023), 279-280, <https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.209>.
- ‘Clare Pettitt, Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). 368pp. ISBN 9780198830429’, Journal of European Periodical Studies, 7:2 (2023), 167-170, <https://openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/article/id/85278/>
- ‘”A Revolution in the Making”: Theory, Practice, Print Culture’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 26 (2021), 355-6. Published version available here (OA). A post-print version will be available in the White Rose Repository here (OA) soon.
- ‘Maurice S. Lee. Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution’, Journal of English Studies, 71 (2020), 1003-1005.
- ‘The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century, by Alex Csiszar; pp. xii + 376. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018, $45.00, $35.00 paper, £34.00, £28.00 paper’, Victorian Studies, 62 (2020), 490-492.
- ‘Index: Periodical Parts and the Bookish Afterlife’, Victorian Review, 43 (2018), 204-7. This is available via the journal here (£). There is a postprint version in the White Rose Repository here (OA).
- Review of Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt, Revolutions from Grub Street: A History of Magazine Publishing in Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), Sharp News, 25:1 (2016), 11.
- ‘Moving On By Staying the Same’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 21 (2016), 1-7. Published version here (£). A postprint version is available via the White Rose Repository here (OA).
- ‘Newspapers’, Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, ed. by Dino Franco Felluga, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Linda K. Hughes (Blackwell, 2015). Available via Blackwell Reference Online here (£). The OA version has been embargoed by the publisher.
- ‘”In Chancery”, Again’, Dickens Our Mutual Friend Reading Project (1 February 2015). Available here (OA).
- Five contributions to ‘(Re)Presenting the Archive’, Archive Journal, 4 (2014). Published version available here (OA).
- Review of Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era, Media History, 21 (2015), pp. 121-122. Published version here (£).
- Review of Raw Data is an Oxymoron, Media History, 20 (2014), pp. 105-6. Published version here (£).
- ‘BJHS: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’, Viewpoint: Magazine for the British Society for the History of Science, 99 (October 2012), pp. 1-2. This is available from the BSHS here. I have also published this as a blog post here.
- ‘Blogging about Hacking the Book’, Journal of Victorian Culture Online (20 August 2012). Published version available here (OA).
- ‘Teaching Nineteenth-Century Periodicals Using Digital Resources: Myths and Methods’, Victorian Periodicals Review, 45 (2012), pp. 201-209. Published version available here (£) and in Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- Review of Dallas Liddle, The Dynamics of Genre: Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain (Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2009), English Studies, 92 (2011), pp. 113-4. Published version available here (£). It will appear in the University of Birmingham’s ePrints repository soon.
- ‘Review of ProQuest Historical Newspapers, (review no. 1096)’, Reviews in History (June 2011). Published version available here (OA).
- ‘Ownership, Institutions, Methodology’, roundtable contribution to Journal of Victorian Culture, 13 (2008), 94-100. Published version available here (£) or in Birmingham’s ePrints repository here (OA).
- ‘Digital Culture, Materiality and Nineteenth-Century Studies’, forum contribution to 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (2008). Published version available here (OA) and in the University of Birmingham’s ePrints Repository here.
- Thirteen contributions to the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (Proquest; British Library and Academia Press 2008).
- Review of Grace Eckley, Maiden Tribute: A Life of W.T. Stead (Xlibris 2007), Sharp News, 18 (2009), 12.
- Review of Christine Ferguson, Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle: the Brutal Tongue (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), English Literature in Transition, 50 (2007), 339-343. Published version here (£).
- Review of Geoffrey Cantor et al., Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2004), Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals, edited by Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 2004), Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media, edited by Louise Henson et al. (Aldershot: Ashgate 2004), Media History, 12 (2006), 225-231.
- ‘The “Reviewers Reviewed”: Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical’, a review essay in Metascience, 14 (2005), pp. 363-370. Published version available here (£).