Publications

Books

Amateur Theatre in Britain, 1789-1914 (in progress, expected to be published in 2027).

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

'Amateur Theatrical Agitations' in Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Rebels (expected to be published in 2025).

'Elite Private and Amateur Theatricals and the Professional Amateur' in Claire Cochrane, Trish Reid, Lynette Goddard and Catherine Hindson (eds.) Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre (expected to be published in 2024).

‘Mapping London’s Amateur Theatre Histories’ in Claire Cochrane and Jo Robinson (eds), The Methuen Handbook to Theatre History and Historiography (2019).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

'Amateur Theatre Networks in the Archive', Performance Research, 25:1 (April 2020).

Book Reviews

Review of Catherine Hindson's Theatre in the Chocolate Factory: Performance at Cadbury’s Bournville, 1900-1935 (CUP 2023) for Cultural and Social History (expected to be published in 2024).

Review of Bonnie White's Women’s Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain, 1919–1945 for the Journal of British Studies (expected to be published in 2024).

Review of Henry Vivia-Neal's ‘Their Exits: Encore’, Theatre Notebook, 75:3 (2021).

Conference Papers

2024

'Behind the Scenes of Private Theatricals: in Prints, Pictures and Caricatures', Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film journal conference in memory of Prof. Jim Davis, invited talk, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 17 September 2024.

'Tracing British Amateur Theatrical Events Beyond Blighty: Exchanges, Identities, Communities', EVENT2024 flightless conference in association with BAVS, University of Cardiff, September 2024.

'In Response to Tragedy: Amateur Theatre and Charitable Causes in Nineteenth Century Britain', as part of a panel proposed with the title 'Where is the Tragic in Amateur Theatre?', IFTR, Manila, Philippines, July 2024.

'Experiencing the Archive: Gamification and Performing Histories', TaPRA Theatre and Performance Histories working group symposium, University of Warwick, March 2024.

'The Generation Game – It’s a Matter of Time', invited talk as part of the 'Theatre Historians: who are we writing for?' two-day symposium, University of Warwick, March 2024.

2023

‘an esprit de corps which united in a common cause’: Regional and Rural Theatrical Ecologies in Nineteenth Century Britain’, invited seminar at Paris Sorbonne University, March 2023.

'Who is speaking?', as part of the 'Putting myself in my historical narrative' symposium, a one-day invite-only event at the University of Oxford, 7 September 2023.

2022

'Documenting Citizenship: A History of Amateur Theatre Histories', IFTR, University of Reykjavik, June 2022.

2018

'A Historical Gaydar?: Queer Subcultures and Amateur Theatre', TaPRA, Aberystwyth University, September 2018.

'Theatre Historian as Grave Hunter', IFTR, Theatre Historiography Working Group, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, July 2018.

'Mapping London Theatre: T. F. Dillon Croker’s Amateur Acting Book and Dramatic Entertainments in the Suburbs','City, Space and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century Performance’, sponsored by Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film journal, University of Warwick, Venice, June 2018.

'A Diarist’s London: Walking the City and Mapping Social Networks', ‘The London Stage and the Nineteenth-Century World’ conference, New College, University of Oxford, May 2018, and BAVS, University of Exeter, August 2018.

'Theatre Historiography: Practice and Pedagogy', invite-only event at Royal Holloway, University of London, in partnership with IFTR, January 2018.

2016

'Traces of Amateur Theatricals: Mapping the Rise of Amateur Theatre in London', Research into Amateur Performance and Private Theatricals (RAPPT) network conference, University of Cork, July 2016, and IFTR, General Panel, University of Stockholm, June 2016.

‘Like measles, amateur theatricals are raging’: What can be gained by taking a step back?', STR Conference, University of Oxford, July 2016.

2015

'Amateur Networks, Amateur Celebrities and an Amateur Repertoire: Reading the Archives of the Canterbury Old Stagers', TaPRA, University of Worcester, September 2015, and ‘Amateur Creativity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’, University of Warwick, September 2015.

'The Material Traces of Nineteenth Century Amateur Theatricals', Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA), Boston, USA, March 2015.

2014

'The Economic Value of Nineteenth Century Amateur Theatricals', TaPRA, Royal Holloway, University of London, September 2014, and Research into Amateur Performance and Private Theatricals (RAPPT) network conference, University of Notre Dame, London, June 2014.

2013

'Outnumbered: The Economics of Victorian Amateur Theatre', British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS), August 2013.

2012

'Licensing and the Law: Private and Amateur Theatricals in the Metropolis', What Signifies a Theatre? 3 conference: Private Theatricals and Amateur Dramatics in Britain and Abroad, University of Notre Dame, London, July 2012.

2011

'‘The Amateur is in Clover’: The Chatsworth House Theatre and the Chatsworth Players', What Signifies a Theatre? 2: Private Theatricals and Amateur Performance, 1780-1900, Royal Holloway, University of London, June 2011.