Book Chapters

My writing and research has been included in edited collections aimed at academic, specialist and general-interest audiences, published by leading academic and independent publishers specialising in art, design and cultural history.

100 20th-century shops

Edited by Susannah Charlton & Elain Harwood
Batsford, 2023

I was invited to write a short entry on Henry Collins & Joyce Pallot’s concrete reliefs on Newcastle’s former BHS building as part of the 20th Century Society’s series of books on aspects of 20th-century architecture.

manchester: something rich and strange

Edited by Paul Dobraszczyk & Sarah Butler
Manchester University Press, 2020

Manchester: Something Rich and Strange offers an alternative perspective on the city’s history and built environment. A range of Manchester-based writers have each contributed short essays taking key words as their starting point. My contributions are ‘Co⁠-⁠operative, ‘Loop’, ‘Sculpture, ‘Statue’ and ‘Newspaper’.

women’s periodicals and print culture in britain, 1918⁠–⁠1939: the interwar period

Edited by Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green & Fiona Hackney
Edinburgh University Press, 2017

My peer-reviewed chapter, ‘Woman’s Outlook 1919⁠–⁠1939: An Educational Space for Co-operative Women’, draws on research undertaken in the National Co-operative Archive in Manchester. Exploring the magazine Woman’s Outlook, published by the Co-operative Press for the women of the co-operative movement, it argues that the magazine provided a space for education, participation and collaboration.

modern futures

Edited by Hannah Neate & Ruth Craggs
Uniform Books, 2016

The AHRC-funded research network Modern Futures brought together academics, artists and heritage workers to explore creative responses to modern architecture, culminating in the book Modern Futures. My essay, ‘Bubbling Away in the Background’, discusses the architectural sculptor William Mitchell’s water fountains in Harlow New Town, Essex.

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