At present I am editing the official wartime diary of the University of London Library: a document kept from August 1939 until 1943, invaluable as a snapshot of daily institutional life and for the insight it gives into the Ministry of Information, which the Library served at this time.

I continue to work on the library of the Victorian mathematician and mathematical historian Augustus De Morgan.

My research interests include library history, especially of 19th-century private and institutional libraries; bibliography.

Experience

  • –present
    Research Fellow in Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

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