Recent Papers and Media Engagement

January 2026 British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference at Oxford University ‘Big Petticoats and Small Breeches: a Case Study Considering Size in Mid-Eighteenth Century Elite Clothing.’


October 2025 Life Cycles Seminar Series at the Institute of Historical Research, ‘Good’ Mothers and Fashionable Dress in Eighteenth-Century Elite Culture

October 2025 Guest Speaker at The Costume Society Conference: In the Shadow of the Georgians From The Jacobite Rising to Waterloo

2025 Maternal Mondays on Bluesky  

2025 Napoleonic Wars Podcast BSECS 2025 Conference Special

2025 Review of the Annual Conference of the Costume Society 2024 ‘Adorned with Jewels‘ published in the Costume Society Magazine The Thread: February 2025

2024 British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference at Oxford UniversityFinely Dressed and Heavily Pregnant: Maternal Bodies and Elite Culture 1720-1830′ 

2023 Maternal Bodies Symposium at Birmingham University ‘Power, Dress and the Maternal Body in Eighteenth Century Elite Culture’ 

2023 Guest speaker, History Hack Podcast, Pregnancy and Women’s Clothing in the Long Eighteenth Century 

2023 International Women’s Day Guest Speaker at Dulwich College, London. Does my Bump Look Big in This?

2022 Maternal Bodies in the Long Nineteenth Century Symposium at the Foundling Museum 

2021 Discomfort: The Uncomfortable Eighteenth Century Symposium ‘Grosse with Child and Uncomfortably Clothed?’