Publications
2021
(forthcoming) ‘Australia and New Zealand.’ In Marysa Demoor, Birgit Van Puymbroeck & Cedric Van Dijck, eds, Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
(in publication) ‘"Choice Type” and “Elegant Fonts”: Advertising in Elizabeth Heard’s Truro Printing Office.' In Rose Roberto & Artemis Alexiou, eds, Women in Print, vol. 1. Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing, 2021.
2020
(forthcoming) ‘Choice Type’ and ‘Elegant Founts’: Advertising in Elizabeth Heard’s Truro Printing Office. In Rose Roberto with Artemis Alexiou, Women in Print, vol. 1. Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing.
2019
Colonising Te Whanganui ā Tara and Marketing Wellington 1840-1849: Displaying (Dis)Possession. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2017
'Iconoclastic effrontery': Rex Fairburn, Bob Lowry and the Printing of Polemics’, Script and Print: Journal of the Australia and New Zealand Bibliographic Society, 41.1, pp. 5-20.
“The other side of history: Underground Literature and the 1951 Waterfront Dispute’, Back Story: Journal of New Zealand Art, Media and Design History, 3, pp. 27-44.
2016
‘Emigration and imperial business: The New Zealand Company brand 1839-1841’, The Journal of Historical Marketing 8.2, 284-307.
2014
‘When is a book not a book: Exploring the possibilities of the material book in the digital world’. Impact 8: Borders and Crossings: The artist as explorer. Proceedings of the 2013 International Printmaking Conference, Dundee: Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, pp. 74-79.
2010
“by far the best parts”: The jackets of Paul's Book Arcade as agents of cultural myth’, Turnbull Library Record, 42, pp. 40-56.
“The habits and institutions of Englishmen”: Using the pamphlet and small book collections of two New Zealand research libraries’, Library and Information History Journal, 26(3), pp. 196-212.
2009
‘Modern letters, modern lives: Networks of association for a new world’. Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society (UK). Boca Raton: Universal Publishers, pp. 359-264.
‘Women's pages: Publishing, writing and [in]visibility in Aotearoa’, Women's History Network Magazine, 58, pp. 27-33.
2007
‘Bob Lowry: Printer to the University?’ Journal of the Printing Historical Society, new series, 11, pp. 5-22.
Conference papers
2019
‘Preserved ephemera: Into a large scrapbook, carefully paste selected material… .’ Dregs, dross and debris: The art of transient print. Print Networks in conjunction with Liverpool John Moores University and the Centre for Printing History and Culture, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, 9-10 July.
2018
‘“A style of typographical beauty rarely attained”: Elizabeth Heard, printer at Truro’. Women in print: Production, distribution, consumption. Winterbourne House and Garden, Birmingham University, Birmingham, 13-14 September.
2016
‘Lockout: Insubordinate print and the New Zealand 1951 waterfront dispute’. Printers Unite! Print and Protest from the Early Modern to the Present. Centre for the History of Print and Culture, London, 3-4 November 2016.
“At the moment of our Empire’s need”: Women, print culture and New Zealand Patriotic Societies 1914-1918.. 25th Annual World History Conference, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2-5 July 2016.
2014
‘Help to win the war: an analysis of the typographic posters of the New Zealand Government 1914-1918’, War and Peace: Design History Society Conference, 4-6 September Oxford University, Oxford.
2013
‘Teaching book futures’, Impact 8: Borders and Crossings: The artist as explorer. International Printmaking Conference, 28 August – 1 September, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Dundee.
2010
‘The Englishman’s second home’: New Zealand in nineteenth century emigration rhetoric’, Locating the hidden diaspora: The English in the Anglo-phone world, 8-10 July, Northumbria University, Newcastle.
‘Consuming country: Advertising and emigration in nineteenth century Britain’, Re-thinking Advertising: Histories, Praxis and Interpretations, 22-23 April 2010, the Inaugural Conference of the Cultural History of Economic Reseach Hub through the Department of Historical Studies at Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia.
2008
‘Modern letters, modern lives: Networks of association for a new world’. Networks of Design: Design History Society Conference, 3-6 September, Falmouth University College, Falmouth.
2006
‘Propaganda and print: The role of ephemera in the politics of emigration 1840-1850’, Jobbing printing: The stuff of life. Conference of the Printing Historical Society in conjunction with the Ephemera Society Conference, 4-5 July 2006, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, Reading, University, Reading.
‘Prophylaxis and the printed word: The role of the material word in Ettie Rout’s sex education campaign’, Thinking Women: Education, culture and society. Women’s History Network Annual Conference, 1-3 September, Durham University, Durham.
2005
‘Alphabet soup in shaky bowls: Lettering in Wellington city’, Locating design, Design History Society Conference/Sites and Histories Research Group, 7-9 September 2005, London Metropolitan University of London, London.
