Journalism
Here’s a selection of the book and exhibition reviews I’ve written for magazines and newspapers. To save any of the below to your computer, right click the links and select ‘save as’ (some will need to then be rotated clockwise; most will need to be read zoomed-in).
My review of The Man Who Closed the Asylums by John Foot, in the Financial Times – PDF
I reviewed Iain Sinclair’s London Overground for The Times Literary Supplement – http://ow.ly/QvSIP
My review of Tommy Dickinson’s book Curing Queers, in The Guardian, is here http://ow.ly/NWruL
In the Times Higher I reviewed Joel Peter Eigen’s book on criminal insanity
Review of the 6-volume History of the Metropolitan Police for The Times Literary Supplement – PDF
Review of Andrew Scull’s Madness in Civilization in the Financial Times – PDF
The Last Asylum by Barbara Taylor, book review in the Financial Times http://ow.ly/HFaDe
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Review of the Geffrye Museum’s exhibition Homes of the Homeless, in The Lancet http://ow.ly/Mng3q
Sherlock Holmes exhibition at the Museum of London, review in The Lancet http://ow.ly/HFfyR
The Lancet ‘Perspectives’ column: lunatic asylum whistleblowers in the 1830s & 1840s http://ow.ly/NovjM
The Guardian, V&A exhibition: ‘Rural England Through a Victorian Lens’
‘Buddhas’ exhibition at the Royal Academy (Guardian)
City of Laughter by Vic Gatrell, book review (Daily Telegraph)
‘Exposed: The Victorian Nude‘ at Tate Britain review (Guardian)
The Fox & The Flies by Charles van Onselen, review (Literary Review)
William Powell Frith exhibition at the Guildhall Gallery (Daily Telegraph)
George Gissing biography review (Daily Telegraph)
Leading Lady: interview with Barbara Barondess McLean (Guardian)
Henry Mayhew selected works, book review, pt 1 (Literary Review)
On the Bathroom, feature (Guardian)
Slum Travellers, edited by Ellen Ross (Times Literary Supplement)
Temporary Structures, architectural history feature, pt 1 (Guardian)
Temporary Structures, pt 2
‘The Colour White’ art exhibition review (Guardian)
Uranium glasswares design feature, pt 1 (Guardian)
Uranium glasswares, pt 2
The V&A’s Chamber of Horrors feature, pt1 (Guardian)
V&A Chamber of Horrors, pt 2
‘William Beckford: An Eye for the Magnificent’ exhibition review (Guardian)