I'm giving a talk about Mary and Anna Sewell on Friday January 17th at the Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth :

 I appeared on the Inside the Newport Mansions podcast to talk about Christmas Past :

I spoke to the Associated Press about Santa Claus - available here - which got picked up around the world, including by Time magazine, here...

I'm quoted in this USA Today  article about White Christmases:

I'm in this month's UN Today magazine (the magazine of United Nations civil servants) with an article about Christmas traditions ar...

I've been quoted in The Guardian  in a fun article about contemporary Christmas movies - enjoy here . 

  Delighted to announced that our edition of Lydia Maria Child's writing for children, co-produced with our students, was awarded The Li...

I'm quoted in this month's National Geographic History Magazine in an article about the ongoing significance of A Visit from St. Nic...

  Our collection of Lydia Maria's Child's writing for children has been shortlisted for a Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize in the ...

I'm delighted to say that the fourth book produced in collaboration my co-editor Hilary Emmett, our students, and the UEA Publishing Pro...

During the research that I've been doing on Black Beauty  for my project with Redwings Horse Sanctuary, I became so captivated by the ne...

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...