My new book has been garnering some interest out in the real world. I was invited to talk about the book - and other things - on the Standard Issue Podcast. My interviewer, Hannah Dunleavy, had taken the trouble to study the book and select from it a few 'suffrage objects' for further discussion. And so, among other things, we talked about taking suffrage to Orkney in the early 1870s (Object 4) and Object 56 - May Billinghurst's 'Velociman', the invalid' tricycle that allowed her freedom to break the law c 1913.

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A few weeks ago, I wrote a short newsletter about Hansard to mark the digital release of all the volumes from 1809 on https://hansard.parliament.uk. I was also invited onto Matt Chorley’s show on BBC ...

To lose one database is a misfortune; to lose four feels like a conspiracy. Recently three online databases and one audiovisual digital archive with underlying database, on each of which I worked f…

Here's a glance at just two of the spreads from the inside my new book. And here's the cover. 320 pages, 38 colour illustrations and 63 black & white. Available in paperback, hardback and as an Ebook. Order through your favourite independent bookshop or from Bloomsbury, Blackwells, Waterstones or Amazon And it's even stocked in some bookshops...