Notes on contributors

Arthur Burns was Professor of Modern British History at King’s College London and Academic Director of the Georgian Papers programme. He was Literary Director and Vice President of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association. He led three major digital history projects and published widely on Hanoverian and Victorian religious history.

Simon Burrows is Professor in History and Digital Humanities at Western Sydney University, Australia and previously worked at the universities of Waikato (New Zealand) and Leeds (United Kingdom). A digital innovator in research and teaching, he has since 2007 led the award-winning ‘French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe’ database project. Simon has convened a series of events which have contributed to the development of digital humanities locally and internationally, including the first ‘Digitizing Enlightenment’ symposium (2016) and the global online ‘Building Digital Humanities’ symposium (2022). He has led the Western Sydney’s Digital Humanities Research Group since 2016. Simon’s most recent book is Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies (2020), which he co-edited with Glenn Roe.

Lenia Kouneni is Lecturer at the School of Art History, University of St Andrews, where she offers modules on classical reception and Byzantine art. Her primary research interests are centred on classical reception, women travellers and the history of archaeology. She has published various articles on late medieval transcultural contacts in the Mediterranean and edited a collection of essays on The Legacy of Antiquity: New Perspectives in the Reception of the Classical World (2013). She is currently working on a project to uncover and contextualise the excavation of the palace of Byzantine emperors in Istanbul during 1930–50.

Ruth Larsen is Programme Leader for undergraduate history programmes at the University of Derby, where she teaches on a number of different modules that explore eighteenth-century history, gender history, the history of the body and material culture studies. She has published a number of articles and chapters on the history of the country house, aristocratic women and the history of letter writing. She is on the steering committee of the East Midlands Centre for History Teaching and Learning.

Alice Marples is Research and Postgraduate Development Manager at the British Library and a historian of science and medicine in Britain and its colonial networks, c. 1650–1850. Her work focuses on the collection and management of manuscript, material and human resources across institutions and international networks. She is interested in the connections between science, state and commerce and how these can be used to disrupt traditional histories of scientific practice, knowledge creation and public culture from the early modern period to the present day. Her first book, The Transactioneer: Hans Sloane and the Rise of Public Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Britain, is forthcoming with Johns Hopkins University Press.

Matthew McCormack is Professor of History and Head of the Graduate School at the University of Northampton. He has published widely on British history, his most recent book being Citizenship and Gender in Britain, 1688–1928 (Routledge, 2019). He has taught a range of modules on British history and also on historical methods, research skills and historiography. He is currently President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

William Tullett is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of York. He is a sensory historian who has published widely on smell and sound in eighteenth-century Britain, including his first monograph, Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: A Social Sense (Oxford University Press, 2019), and his second book, Smell and the Past: Noses, Archives, Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2023). His other pedagogical publications include a recent collaboration with Odeuropa colleagues on an online module, ‘Knowing by Sensing: How to Teach the History of Smell’, for the American Historical Review. His chapter refers to his time teaching at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Oliver C. Walton taught ‘At the Court of King George’ with Arthur Burns in his capacity as George III Project Coordinator and Curator, Historical Manuscripts at the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle. He has extensive experience in teaching with manuscript sources both in relation to this project and also his role as Researcher for the Prince Albert Society and the German Historical Institute project: ‘Common Heritage: The Collections of Windsor and Coburg’. His primary research interest lies in British naval history.

Rebekah Ward is a sessional academic at Western Sydney University. Her research focuses on the history of print culture, particularly the twentieth-century book trade. Rebekah’s doctorate, which blended traditional archival research with digital humanities approaches, explored how Angus & Robertson (the largest Australian publishing house) used book reviews as a promotional tool. She has published in Australian Literary Studies, Publishing Studies and History and presents widely on publishing history, book reviewing and the digital humanities.