Research & Editorial

Emerging product and AI trends in death and digital legacy

A recent lecture I gave on emerging product and AI trends in the death and digital legacy industry for the Death x Design x Culture conference at the University of Falmouth.

Talks

Big Data and Archives lecture

A lunchtime lecture for Kingston University students about archives, the hidden stories they hold, and the potential that can be revealed through design, data, and technology.

Books

In Their Own Words Volume 2: More Letters from History

A follow up volume to the first book, collated and edited for Bloomsbury Publishing, containing stories about fascinating historical letters.

Bitten By Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home

A collection of 'poisonous' decorative designs from the National Archives' Board of Trade Design Registers, tested for arsenic in our preservation lab, and collated together for a Thames & Hudson book.

The Secret Exhibition for Spies’ Eyes Only

The story of a secret display of spy tools held at the Natural History Museum during the Second World War, commissioned for Atlas Obscura’s ‘Stories’ section.

A zine looking at how structured data and search decisions in dating apps can impact the connections people make. Side-by-side scenarios from a new OkCupid search feature shows how users can scour prospective love interests' profiles for some keywords... but not others.

Bad Dating zine

Content

The Unexplained Inter-war Arrests of Men in Make-up

A popular blog exploring what a rouge-stained handkerchief found in UK crime records tells us about masculinity, make-up and queer lives in the period after the First World War.

Archive Notes Podcast Series

Interviews with historians and record specialists about their most interesting and unusual archival finds.