About me

I’m Emily, an apprentice journalist, a writer and an occasional picture-maker. My thing is the long nineteenth century and Neo-Victorianism … More

‘Lizzie Borden took an axe’: See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt [spoilers]

[This story was published on April 7 on the BAVS Neo-Victorian blog. Read the original story at victorianist.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/neo-victorian-review-lizzie-borden-took-an-axe-see-what-i-have-done-by-sarah-schmidt-spoilers.] Lizzie Borden took … More

Review: Poison Panic, by Helen Barrell

[This story was published on March 10 in the BAVS Newsletter. Read the original article in the BAVS Newsletter 17.1 … More

Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome

[Image: Nameless and Friendless, 1857, Emily Mary Osborn] Hello, friends, Romans, and lovers of the creative, historical, queer, and macabre! … More

Darwin, Photography, and the ‘Screaming Victorians’ of Anthony Rhys’s Visual Biofiction

Or; Whose Biofiction is it Anyway? [This story was published on September 23 on the BAVS Neo-Victorian blog. Read the original … More

Tales from the Archives: Pub’s place in history of Sussex smugglers

This story was published on July 21 in the Observer series. Read the original story at chichester.co.uk/news/local/nostalgia-pub-s-place-in-history-of-sussex-smugglers-1-7486021] [All images: West Sussex … More

Justice for Joan: Arundel’s cold case revisited in new book

This story was published on June 23 in the Observer series. Read the original story at bognor.co.uk/news/local/arundel-s-cold-case-revisited-in-new-book-1-7443395.] [All images: Martin Knight] … More

The dark history of Chichester’s Smugglers’ Stone

[This story was published on May 19 in the Chichester Observer. Read the original story at chichester.co.uk/news/local/the-dark-history-of-chichester-s-smugglers-stone-1-7388409] Have you seen Chichester’s … More

Knitting, Lunacy Laws and the hunt for Patient Publications: Doing a PhD in the Medical Humanities

[This story was published on January 20 on blogs.jobs.ac.uk. Read the original story at blogs.jobs.ac.uk/creative-arts/2016/01/20/knitting-lunacy-laws-hunt-patient-publications-phd-medical-humanities.] Welcome! For my first blog, I … More

Prisons and philately: Norfolk Island commemorated

As part of my job, I spend some time every week in Chichester’s West Sussex Record Office, trailing through the … More