Time and Tide Museum: Black Beauty, Anna Sewell and Great Yarmouth

 I'm giving a talk about Mary and Anna Sewell on Friday January 17th at the Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth:

Inside the Newport Mansions: Christmas Past

 I appeared on the Inside the Newport Mansions podcast to talk about Christmas Past:

Associated Press: Santa Claus

I spoke to the Associated Press about Santa Claus - available here - which got picked up around the world, including by Time magazine, here. 

USA Today: White Christmases

I'm quoted in this USA Today article about White Christmases:

UN Today Magazine: Here to Sleigh

I'm in this month's UN Today magazine (the magazine of United Nations civil servants) with an article about Christmas traditions around the world. You can read the whole thing here or below.  

Guardian: Christmas Movies

I've been quoted in The Guardian in a fun article about contemporary Christmas movies - enjoy here. 

Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize 2024: Winner

 

Delighted to announced that our edition of Lydia Maria Child's writing for children, co-produced with our students, was awarded The Literary Encyclopaedia's biennial prize for Scholarly Editions.

The full announcement can be found on The Literary Encyclopaedia's pages here and below.

National Geographic History Magazine

I'm quoted in this month's National Geographic History Magazine in an article about the ongoing significance of A Visit from St. Nicholas - a snippet below:

 

Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize 2024: Shortlisted

 

Our collection of Lydia Maria's Child's writing for children has been shortlisted for a Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize in the category: Scholarly editions of works originally in the English language. Results in December!

Frank Stockton: The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales

I'm delighted to say that the fourth book produced in collaboration my co-editor Hilary Emmett, our students, and the UEA Publishing Project, will be published in September as part of the Children's Corner Editions series! This time, we're bringing the groundbreaking fairy tales of Frank Stockton to a new generation of readers, young and old. Professor Jack Zipes, the pre-eminent fairy tale academic, has already described this edition as "simply superb"!  

Order your copy direct from the UEA Publishing Project here.

More advance praise below:

Mary Sewell

During the research that I've been doing on Black Beauty for my project with Redwings Horse Sanctuary, I became so captivated by the neglected life and work of Anna Sewell's mother, Mary, that I have collected some of her poetry in a new edition. Homely Ballads and Stories in Verse: The Poetry of Mary Sewell is the first modern collection of her work. Mary was one of the biggest-selling poets of the Victorian era and it's a privilege to be able to be bring this gathering of her most popular verses back to life. Now available!