My article "Just not cricket: Baseball, youth and national identity in late nineteenth-century children’s magazines" has just been...

  Back in May our ongoing children's literature project (see more here , here and here ) won a UEA Transforming Education Award for Emp...

Alongside my colleague Malcolm McLaughlin, I spoke about our work on the Great Yarmouth Hippodrome at a Seaside Heritage Network event - re...

I've been quoted in this article from The Economist  about the 200th anniversary of "A Visit from St. Nicholas":

I've guest edited a special Christmas-themed double-issue of Comparative American Studies featuring a host of excellent articles which ...

 I gave a talk about The Last Gift  for LSUP's Online Author Series - video below!

Yesterday was the launch event for the new edition of Black Beauty  that I've edited - a collaboration with the wonderful Redwings Horse...

Coming in November! Edited with my colleague Hilary Emmett, this is the latest collaboration between us, the UEA Publishing Project and the ...

Over the last few months, with my colleague Malcolm McLaughlin, I've started a new research project on the history of the Great Yarmouth...

Sol Eytinge's illustration of the three spirits visiting Scrooge in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol , taken from the 1868 Tickno...

Coming this October from Louisiana State University Press! This is  the first anthology of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's extensive and negle...

  Sixteen years later, River of Dreams  is now available in paperback! Grab your copy here and see if it still holds up...

March 30th is Anna Sewell's birthday, which made it the perfect moment to announce an exciting project that has been in the works for a ...

  It was a thrill and an honour to serve as a judge for the East Anglian Book Awards this year. Reading the entries for the The Mal Peet Chi...

Many years in the making, my article on Walter Scott and the reading lives of nineteenth-century American children is out now in Nineteenth-...

Video of our 2022 UEA Christmas lecture for children : A Child's Christmas in Nineteenth Century America:

In what is fast becoming a Christmas tradition, I went on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast - along with my colleague and co-editor...

Well, it's been a decade since I last gave one of the UEA Christmas Lectures for Children, and I'm doing it again! This time, in th...

This Wednesday we officially launched Five Little Peppers  at the wonderful Norwich bookshop Bookbugs and Dragon Tales. It was great to intr...

  I'm thrilled that the second book produced in collaboration my co-editor Hilary Emmett, our students, and the UEA Publishing Project, ...