Journalism
How Many Skies Have Fallen: Back to the Land in Wartime Britain by Ken Worpole
Book review, December 2021
History TodayCruel Intentions Strange Antics: A History of Seduction By Clement Knox
Book review, April 2020
Literary ReviewHot Flushes, Cold Science
Mariella Frostrup "recommends the excellent Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause"
Mariella FrostrupSex, Lives, and History Books
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, Alumnae Association Newsletter
NautilusThe diet industry has exploited our health fears for centuries – here’s how
GuardianThe Irish Egyptian
Irish Independent Weekend Magazine 19/07/2014 on RG 'Pum' Gayer-Anderson
Irish IndependentRauchen, Lesen, Seife Essen
Article on the history of dieting for the April 2014 edition of Folio, monthly magazine of the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung", Switzerland
FolioEating it up: diet fads of the ages
New ScientistCalories and Corsets: a history of dieting
A look at a history of dieting fads - from the Ancient Greeks to the Duchess of Cambridge.
We Love This BookLord Byron: The celebrity diet icon
BBC NewsOverweight? Have some vinegar or tapeworms
Centuries of celebrity, faddy and unusual diets revealed
Daily MirrorDieting: a pot-bellied history
We tend to think of weight-loss regimes as the product of our image-obsessed age – but Byron and Nietzsche were on them too. We chronicle the diet industry's ups and downs, from laxative gum to rubber knickers
Observer MagazineBody anxiety is nothing new
For hundreds of years people have been bombarded with images of the 'ideal' body shape and dubious ways to achieve it.
GuardianOur preoccupation with dieting has become a national neurosis
The dieting industry exploits our shame, yet still we crave the Next Big Diet Idea.
GuardianDieting: Battle of the bulge
A look back on 20 centuries of bingeing, purging, snake oil and strange ideas.
The IndependentDiary
Diary piece on the contentious issue of who lies in the poet's grave in Drumcliffe: W B Yeats or Alfred Hollis?
London Review of Books