I’ve worked with the written word since 2014 doing everything from writing marketing copy to academic editing. I’ve written introductory lectures for undergraduates, local history pamphlets, social media advertising, and the odd academic article. Want something written up? Get in touch.
FORTHCOMING
Never one to rest, I have a few projects up my sleeve at the moment:
- ‘The Chartist Press’, in Edinburgh Companion to the Radical Press ed. Owen Holland (forthcoming 2025)
- Editing ‘Special Issue: Currents and Currencies in the Periodical Press’, Victorian Periodicals Review (Winter 2024)
PUBLISHED
Academic journals
‘Time, Space, Gender, and the Chartist Periodical’, Victorian Periodicals Review (Winter 2020)
Book chapters
‘Working Class Writing in Victorian Britain’, in Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, ed. Ben Clarke (London: Routledge, 2025)
‘The Chartist Movement in Britain, 1830-1855’, in Mouvements protestataires, contestations politiques et luttes sociales en Grande-Bretagne (Editions Ellipses, 2024)
‘“Fustian Jackets, Unshorn Chins, and Blistered Hands”: Fabric and Political Feeling in the Chartist Movement, 1837-1848’, Everyday Fashion, ed. by Jade Halbert, Liz Tregenza, and Bethan Bide (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).
‘Identifying the Readers & Correspondents of the Northern Star, 1847-1848′ Print, Politics, and the Provincial Press in Modern Britain, eds. Ian Cawood and Lisa Peters (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019).
Media appearances
‘Uncanny’, BBC2 (Hallowe’en 2024). You can catch me talking about child labour in the mining industry on episode 2 of Danny Robins’ spooky series Uncanny.
‘Killing Victoria’, BBC Sounds (Spring 2023). Hear me on episodes 2 and 4 of the BBC Sounds podcast Killing Victoria, speaking all about working-class life and politics in Victorian London.
Heritage and consultancy
Audience Consultation – Public report (January 2020), East End Women’s Museum.
Print media
‘What if… the Chartists had succeeded?’ All About History (Issue 130, June 2023).
Blogs and Zines
‘In Tune: Whap Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)’, Society for the Study of Labour History Commentary (December 2023)
‘Organise! Organise! Organise! From messy politics to the paperwork of petitioning and memories of
protests’, Society for the Study of Labour History Blog (October 2023)
‘“Fustian Jackets” and everyday dress in the Chartist Movement’, ‘May Day Zine 2021’, Wakefield Socialist History Society.
‘Space: It’s Personal’ Beta (Winter 2020). In my non-academic life I enjoy indoor bouldering, and was delighted to contribute an article to the ‘Bodies’ issue of Beta, a magazine about women in climbing. This article explores my own experiences of personal space, climbing as a woman, and negotiating feelings of safety during the Covid-19 pandemic.
‘Of, or for, Mary Wollstonecraft?’ History Workshop Online (November 2020).
‘Who was there?’ ‘Kennington Common 1848: Another Look’ (Summer 2019).
‘Morris & Co. X H&M‘ The Victorianist (2018)
Book reviews
‘Review: Serial Revolutions 1848 by Clare Pettitt (Oxford University Press, 2021)’, British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter [Summer 2023].
Review: Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel by Jessica R. Valdez (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Victorian Popular Fictions Journal [Autumn 2022].
‘Review: The Brontës and War by Emma Butcher (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)’, British Association for
Victorian Studies Newsletter [Winter 2021].
Review: Bread Winner by Emma Griffin (Yale University Press, 2020), Women’s History Review [Summer 2020].
Dr Vic Clarke 
