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Should you have difficulties accessing any of this material, do please contact me, as in many cases I have PDFs or typescripts I can share. 
I only list here material which is accepted or published; manuscripts under preparation or review are not included here. 
If you use Zotero, most of my material is listed on my profile, here.

Books:

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Articles and chapters:

  • ‘Affective bibliography: three queer approaches to print’ in Jessica Farrell-Jobst and Elise Watson (eds), Gender and the Book Trades (Library of the Written Word, Brill, 2024), [accepted & in press].
  • ‘Heartstopper’, The Literary Encyclopedia (7 November 2024). 
  • with Esther Gicheru (Co-operative University of Kenya) and Cilla Ross (U. Nottingham), ‘Guest editorial: Co-operative education in an age of crisis’, Journal of Co-operative Studies, 57, 2, no 171 (2024), pp.3-9.
  • with Sarah Pyke, ‘Queer Bibliography: a rationale’, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 118, 2 (June 2024), pp.147-169.
  • ‘Melting wax and warming hearts: Heartstopper, scented candles, and bookish social media’, The New Americanist, 3, 1 ( 2024), pp.25-46
  • ‘Co-operation for Asset-Based Community Development: the example of the Community Explorers project at Leicester Vaughan College’, in Julian Manley, Anthony Webster and Olga Kuznetsova (eds), Co-operation and Co-operatives in 21st-Century Europe (Bristol University Press, 2023), pp.125-143. 
  • ‘Co-operation not competition: on the queer potential of co-operative higher education’, in Churnjeet Mahn, Yvette Taylor, and Matt Brim (eds), Queer Sharing in the Marketized University (Routledge, 2022), pp.44-62.
  • with Cilla Ross, ‘From principles to participation: 'The Statement on the Cooperative Identity' and Higher Education Co-operatives’, Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management, 9 (2021), 100146. 
  • “Finding Edinburgh’s Past: introducing The OEC Bibliography of Edinburgh History’, Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, 16 (2020), pp.103-7.
  • with Cilla Ross, ‘Bundling Co-operative Higher Education: towards a theory of co-operative learning’, Journal of Co-operative Studies, 53, 3 (2020), pp. 25-29. 
  • ‘From one sheet: a lesson in queer bibliography’, Queer Zine Library: Year 1 (London: Queer Zine Library, 2020).
  • with Tom Woodin, ‘Review of Periodic Literature 2018’, History of Education Researcher, 105 (2020), pp.32-59.
  • with Cilla Ross, ‘Now is the Time for Co-operative Higher Education’, in Reclaiming the University for the Public Good, pp.1-22.
  • with Cilla Ross, ‘Seeking a Co-operative University: Reconstructing Adult Education and Reclaiming Higher Education as a Public Good’ in Reclaiming the University for the Public Good, pp.247-56.
  • with Susannah Lisbet Wright, ‘Review of Periodic Literature 2017’, History of Education Researcher, 103 (2019), pp.48-72.
  • ‘Co-operative Higher Education is the Answer: how to save adult education for the last time’, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 21, 1 (2019), pp.139-44. 
  • with Richard Hall: ‘The Practicalities and pedagogies of adult learning co-operatives: Vaughan resurgam’, SCUTREA Proceedings (SCUTREA, 2018), pp.197-205, open online access  .
  • ‘The Problems and Possibility of Common Good Accounts: Edinburgh, c.1820-56’, Scottish Archives, 21 (2017), pp.44-58.
  • ‘The Common Good and Borough Reform: Leicester c.1820-50’, Midland History, 41, 1 (2016), pp.37-56.
  • ‘To obliterate forever Hunnish names’, Context, 137 (2014), pp.12-13.
  • ‘Bibliography of urban history 2010’, Urban History, 37, 3 (2010), pp.499-551.
  • ‘Bibliography of urban history 2009’, Urban History, 36, 3 (2009), pp.519-77.
  • ‘Thomas Burbidge: Last Town Clerk to the Corporation of Leicester’, Leicestershire Historian, 45 (2009), pp.44-7.
  • ‘Bibliography of urban history 2008’, Urban History, 35, 3 (2008), pp.524-73.

Book reviews:

  • ‘Review of Lauren Alex O’Hagan, The Sociocultural Functions of Edwardian Book Inscriptions: taking a Multimodal Ethnohistorical Approach (New York: Routledge, 2021)’, for SHARP News: Society for the history of authorship, readership and print, published November 2024. 
  • Review of ‘Michael Anderson, ‘Scotland's Populations from the 1850s to Today’’, Economic History Review, 73, 1 (2020), pp.331-2.
  • Review of ‘Jeffrey Abt, ‘Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum: a history of fiscal abandonment and rescue’’, Urban History, 45, 4 (2018), pp.736-7.
  • Review of ‘The Feminine Public Sphere: Middle-Class Women in Civic Life in Scotland c.1870–1914’, Reviews in History, 999 (2010).
  • Review of ‘Phillada Ballard (ed.), ‘Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian Architects’’, Urban History, 37, 2 (2010), pp.341-2. .
  • Review of ‘David G. Barrie, Police in the Age of Improvement: Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland, 1775–1865’, Urban History, 36, 2 (2009), pp.346-7.
  • Reviews in Leicestershire Historian (2009-present).

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