ARTICLES & VIDEOS
I’ve always been passionate about words and enjoy writing for audiences either in a heritage setting, on an audio guide, in a magazine or online. Here are some of my articles and videos.
2024
Co-author of Research on Interpretation for World Heritage Sites featuring Criterion vi with the International Centre for the Interpretation and Presentation of World Heritage Sites (UNESCO)
Short video: The making of 'Incarcerated: Contemporary Arts from the Victorian Prison' exhibition at Midlands Arts Centre in collaboration with the University of Birmingham
2023
Exhibition review: The Event Tent, Preston (In Certain Places)
Exhibition review: Julia and Axel: thirty years of favourite stories, The Lowry (with Jacob Roden)
Podcast: Cultural Peeps episode 27 with Iain Wheeldon (Newcastle University)
Book review: The Origins of Manchester: from Roman conquest to Industrial Revolution by Alan Kidd
Exhibition review: Redevelopment of Manchester Museum
Joint paper: Ditching the questionnaire: new approaches to evaluation at Visitor Studies Group conference
2022
Interpreting with intent article in Interpretation Journal (Association for Heritage Interpretation, UK) Vol 27, issue 2
Exhibition review: #OutOfDate2022, The Modernist Society
Dive In! Protecting Our Ocean exhibition : project case study and interpretation guide (University of St Andrews)
2021
Exhibition review: What Kind of City? at The Whitworth, Manchester
Travel piece: Istanbul - a city free of stereotypes, The Club (British Airways)
Book review: Manchester: Something rich and strange by Paul Dobraszczyk and Sarah Butler
2020
Preview of Talking Sense at the Portico Library, Manchester
Tenth anniversary of the People’s History Museum, Manchester
Book review: The Walker: on losing and finding yourself in the modern city by Matthew Beaumont
Travel piece: Bishop Auckland, Co Durham
2019
Exhibition review: Van Gogh: the immersive experience at York St Mary’s
Exhibition review: Walk Without Fear by the Mines Advisory Group at Manchester Central Library
A round-up of 2019’s Peterloo exhibitions in Manchester
2018
Book review: Irreplaceable: A history of England in 100 Places by Philip Wilkinson
Exhibition review: And Breathe … at Manchester Art Gallery
Book review: The British Mosque: an architectural and social history by Shahed Saleem
A blog for the British Museum’s Object Journeys project about writing text for Global Artists exhibition (New Walk Museum, Leicester)
2017
Travel piece: Paris isn’t a city of love: it’s a city of death
Exhibition review: Leeds Art Gallery reopens
Redefining the role of the curator at Tate Liverpool
Exhibition review: Never going underground: the fight for LGBT+ rights at People’s History Museum
2016
The Art of Paul Peter Piech on History Today
Exhibition review: Extinction or survival? at Manchester Museum
Exhibition review: Wonder Materials: graphene and beyond at Manchester Science and Industry Museum
How to create atmosphere in an empty room using audio and handheld multimedia for ATS Heritage
Event preview: Making music in Manchester Museum of Science and Industry
Opinion piece: What makes a museum object queer?
2015
Exhibtion preview: Gifts for the Gods at Manchester Museum
Exhibition review: York Art Gallery redisplay
Exhibition review: Show me the Money at People’s History Museum
Travel piece: Manchester Museums day for £12
2014
Exhibition review: Robert Mapplethorpe at Tate Modern
Exhibition review: Comics Unmasked at the British Library