Subjects

I work in most humanities and social science subjects, including:

Selection of books copyedited or proofread

See also my Portfolio page.

Anthropology (including archaeology)

Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, 9th edn, by Colin Renfrew et al. (Thames & Hudson, 2024).

Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive, ed. R. B. Parkinson (Bodleian Library, 2022).

The Art of Advertising, by Julie Anne Lambert (Bodleian Library, 2019).

A Companion to the Anthropology of Death, ed. Antonius C. G. M. Robben (Wiley Blackwell, 2018).

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 12 vols, ed. Hillary Callan (Wiley Blackwell, 2018).

A Handbook of Practicing Anthropology, ed. Riall Nolan (Wiley Blackwell, 2013).

A Companion to Moral Anthropology, ed. Didier Fassin (Wiley Blackwell, 2012).

Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader, ed. Mark Goodale (Wiley Blackwell, 2008).

Ghosts of Memory, ed. Janet Carsten (Wiley Blackwell, 2007).

Architecture

Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530–1830, by Steven Brindle (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2023).

Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester, by Mark Crinson (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022).

Art and art history

Aubrey Williams: Art, Histories, Futures, ed. Ian Dudley and Maridowa Williams (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2024).

Julia Margaret Cameron: A Poetry of Photography, by Nichole J. Fazio (Bodleian Library, 2023).

The Forms of Nameless Things: Experimental Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, by Geoffrey Batchen (Bodleian Library, 2023).

The Bible as Visual Culture, by John Harvey (Sheffield Academic Press, 2013).

A Companion to Aesthetics, 2nd edn, ed. Stephen Davies et al. (Wiley Blackwell, 2009).

Christianity, biblical studies and theology

Love Means Love: Same-Sex Relationships and the Bible, by David Runcorn (SPCK, 2020).

My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert and the Journey of the Soul, by Mark Oakley (SPCK, 2019).

Contemplative Prayer, by David Foster (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2015).

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology, ed. Bonnie Miller-McLemore (Wiley Blackwell, 2011).

Communication studies

A Dictionary of Media and Communication, 2nd edn, by Daniel Chandler and Rod Munday (Oxford University Press, 2016).

The Ethical Journalist, 2nd edn, by Gene Foreman (Wiley Blackwell, 2015).

The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society, ed. Robin Mansell and Peng Hwa Ang (Wiley Blackwell, 2015).

Cultural studies

The Modern American Metropolis, ed. David Freund (Wiley Blackwell, 2015).

The Revision of Englishness, ed. David Rogers and John McLeod (Manchester University Press, 2004).

Environment

The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance, ed. Lena Partzsch (Bristol University Press, 2023).

Film and theatre

A Companion to Jean Renoir, ed. Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau (Wiley Blackwell, 2013).

Improvisation in Drama, 2nd edn, by Anthony Frost and Ralph Yarrow (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Andrew Davies, by Sarah Cardwell (Manchester University Press, 2005).

Geography

Talking Maps, by Jerry Brotton and Nick Millea (Bodleian Library, 2019).

Maps and the 20th Century, ed. Tom Harper (British Library, 2016).

The International Encyclopedia of Geography, 15 vols, ed. Douglas B. Richardson (Wiley Blackwell, 2017).

History

Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London, by Simon P. Newman (University of London Press, 2022).

Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England, by Sarah Fox (University of London Press, 2022).

The Control of the Past: Herbert Butterfield and the Pitfalls of Official History, by Patrick Salmon (University of London Press, 2021).

Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities and Social Change in Modern Britain, ed. Heidi Egginton and Zoë Thomas (University of London Press, 2021).

A Brief History of the Bodleian Library, by Mary Clapinson (Bodleian Library, 2020).

Islamic Maps, by Yossef Rapaport (Bodleian Library, 2019).

Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia, by Annabel Teh Gallop (National University of Singapore Press/University of Chicago Press, 2019).

A Companion to African History, ed. William Worger (Wiley Blackwell, 2018).

European Overseas Empire, 1879–1999, by Matthew Stanard (Wiley Blackwell, 2018).

A History of America in 100 Maps, by Susan Schulten (British Library, 2018).

Letters

Byron’s Letters and Journals: A New Selection, ed. Richard Lansdown (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Jane Austen’s Letters, 4th edn, ed. Deirdre Le Faye (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Wittgenstein in Cambridge, ed. Brian McGuinness (Wiley Blackwell, 2008).

Literature and literary studies

A Companion to Virginia Woolf, ed. Jessica Berman (Wiley Blackwell, 2016).

The Life of Robert Frost, by Henry Hart (Wiley Blackwell, 2016).

Writing British Muslims, by Rehana Ahmed (Manchester University Press, 2015).

The Strong Spirit: Politics and Aesthetics in the Writings of James Joyce, by Andrew Gibson (Oxford University Press, 2013).

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 vols, ed. Brian Shaffer (Wiley Blackwell, 2011).

The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, 3 vols, ed. Michael Ryan (Wiley Blackwell, 2011).

A Guide to Old English, 7th edn, ed. Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson (Blackwell, 2007).

Victory, by Joseph Conrad (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Museum studies

The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, 4 vols, ed. Sharon Macdonald and Helen Rees Leahy (Wiley Blackwell, 2015).

Philosophy

The Passions: A Study of Human Nature, by P. M. S. Hacker (Wiley Blackwell, 2020).

Western Philosophy: An Anthology, ed. John Cottingham (Blackwell, 2007).

Poetry

Six London Preludes, by Paul Williamson (Festival O/Modernt, 2017).

Ekphrasis: Serra, by Paul Williamson (Festival O/Modernt, 2014).

Politics

What is International Relations? by Eric Jørgensen (Bristol University Press, 2022).

Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics, ed. Mike Ekers et al. (Wiley Blackwell, 2012).

Peace and Justice: Seeking Accountability after War, by Rachel Kerr and Eirin Mobekk (Polity Press, 2007).

Making Sense of Human Rights, by James Nickel (Blackwell, 2006).

Curious Creatures, by Chris Thorogood (Bodleian Library, 2019).

Mind Change, by Susan Greenfield (Rider Books, 2014).

Spitting Blood: A History of Tuberculosis, by Helen Bynum (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Cows in the Maze, by Ian Stewart (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Reference

Oxford Junior Illustrated Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Oxford Primary Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary, by David Crystal and Ben Crystal (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Oxford School Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Sociology

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edn, ed. George Ritzer et al. (Wiley Blackwell, 2024).

Social Divisions, by Geoff Payne and Eric Harrison (Policy Press, 2020).

The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development, 10 vols, ed. Stephen Hupp and Jeremy D. Jewell (Wiley Blackwell, 2019).

The New Politics of Home, by Eleanor Jupp et al. (Policy Press, 2019).

Social Innovation: How Societies Find the Power to Change, by Geoff Mulgan (Policy Press, 2019).

Tea and the Queen? Fundamental British Values, Schools and Citizenship, by Carol Vincent (Policy Press, 2019).