Detail from William Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress, engraved series Plate 8 (1735)
Writings on Longitude
Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History
Liverpool University Press, 2023
Looking for the Longitude
British Art Studies Issue 2 (Spring 2016) and Twitter conversation
PhD thesis, ‘The Wanton Line: Hogarth and the Public Life of Longitude’
University of Cambridge (2014). Reviewed for Dissertation Reviews
Digital essays for ‘Papers of the Board of Longitude’
Cambridge Digital Library (2013)
‘“Diese Linien sind so überaus fein”: William Hogarth und John Harrison lösen das Längengradproblem’
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie 52 (2013), pp.27-36
‘La Demostració de la Longitud i el «Llunàtic»de la Longitud al a Rake’s Progress de Hogarth’
Actes d’història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica 4 (2011)
Explaining themselves: the Barrington Papers, the Board of Longitude, and the fate of John Harrison
Notes and Records of the Royal Society 65 (2011)
Frontispiece from William Hunt, The Projectors (1737)
Longitude Blogs
The Looking for the Longitude project
The 18th-Century Common, 2016
‘In your dictionary: the language of longitude’
OxfordWords, 2015
‘Stones, Clocks, and Stars’
Dittrick Museum blog, 2014
‘Longitude? Patently Obvious’
British Library Social Science blog, 2013
‘From pamphlet to pixel: the humanities in transition’
University of Cambridge Research pages, 2012
‘Board of Longitude’ project blog
Royal Museums Greenwich, Regular posts 2010-2015