Reviews

Books

‘When worlds collide’. Review of Curious Devices and Mighty Machines by Samuel Alberti

Museums Journal (July/August 2023) and online

‘The dark side of art’. Review of The Gallery of Miracles and Madness by Charlie English

Museums Journal (July/August 2022) and online

Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Journal of the History of Collections (February 2021)

Art in Science Museums: Towards a Post-Disciplinary Approach

Museums Journal (July 2020) online

‘On my bookshelf’: Headlong, by Michael Frayn 

Museums Journal (December 2018), p.56

Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America 

Museums Journal (April 2018), p.56 and online

The Return of Curiosity: What Museums are good for in the 21st century by Nick Thomas

Museums Journal (May 2017), p.54 and online

The Mind is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought by Sean Silver

West 86th 23.2 (Winter, 2016), pp.320-22 also online

‘Irrelevant, boring, expensive… The book that lists everything wrong with house museums’: The Anarchist Guide to Historic House Museums by Franklin D. Vagnone and Deborah E. Ryan

Apollo: The International Art Magazine (May 2016), p.110 also online

Writing Material Culture History eds. Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello

European History Quarterly 46.2 (April 2016), pp.352-4

Curationism: How Curating took over the Art World and Everything Else by David Balzer

Museums Journal (October 2015), p.56

Museums in the New Mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics by Jenny Kidd

Museums Journal (May 2015), p.56

Coral: Something Rich and Strange (ed.) Marion Endt-Jones

British Journal for the History of Science 48 (March 2015), pp.175-76

‘Putting Science into Words’: Review of Never Pure by Steven Shapin

Endeavour 35.1 (On paper 2011)

Cabinets for the Curious: Looking Back at Early English Museums by Ken Arnold

Museum History Journal 3.1

Commissioned book reviews for readme.cc

(2010)