Publications

Books and edited volumes

Donington, Katie (2024) ‘Whose Heritage? Slavery, Country Houses, and the “Culture Wars” in England’, in Conermann, S., et al (eds), Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 139-166.

Crisp, Lindsay Polly (2024) ‘Objects as bodies in Michael Landy’s Shelf Life, in Mohan, U (ed.), The Efficacy of Intimacy and Belief in Worldmaking Practices, London & New York: Routledge.

Donington, Katie (2023) ‘Cultivating the world: English country house gardens, 'exotic' plants and elite women collectors, c.1690-1800’ in Stobart, Jon (ed), Global Goods and the Country House, London: UCL Press.

Wallis, Robert J. (ed) (2023), The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey: From Prehistory to the Present, London: Bloomsbury.

Aylett, Samuel (forthcoming 2023) Legacies of an Imperial City: The Museum of London 1976-2007. London and New York: Routledge.

Thøfner, Margit (2022) ‘Why Giants?’ in Verberckmoes, J. (ed), Zwierige Reuzen in de 18e eeuw en de Lierse ommegang van 1722, Lier: Gezellen van ‘t Groot Volk.

Wallis, Robert J. (2021) ‘Reproduction, Simulation and the Hyperreal: a case study of ‘Lascaux III’ 2015-2017, in Rozwadowski, Andrzej and Jamie Hampson (eds), Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 132-144.

Journal papers

Taylor, Clare (2022) ‘Gilt Leather at Gwydir Castle’, PMC Notes, 20, Jan 2022, pp. 22-29.

Thøfner, Margit (2021) ‘Of Elephants and Harmony: Memory, Knowledge and Pleasure in the Joyous Entry of Albert of Austria and Isabella of Spain into Antwerp’, Cheiron 1, pp. 39-67.

Conference papers

Taylor, Clare (2022) ‘An authentic material? Gilt leather imitations in late nineteenth-century Britain’, paper to the 12^th Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Leather and Related Materials Working Group, hosted by the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, 12 Oct 2022 [online],

Blog posts

Donington, Katie (2022) ‘Slavery and the Bank of England: Exploitation on Display’, Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, UCL.

Taylor, Clare (2021) ‘“She is now of the family of Champcommunal and other money makers”: women, antiques and interiors in mid twentieth-century London’, antiquedealersblog, University of Leeds

Taylor, Clare (2021) ‘Solving the puzzle: Unexpected findings inside A History of English Furniture’, antiquedealersblog, University of Leeds,