INVITED LECTURES, CONFERENCE PAPERS & CONVENED CONFERENCES/PANELS
January 2022 Invited speaker at the Centre for the History of Knowledge, University of Lund, Sweden. Speaking on "The Historical Ubiquity of Knowledge". https://newhistoryofknowledge.com/2022/01/10/seminar-histories-of-surveillance-2/
May 2021 Invited speaker at Information History: How, What, Where and Why?Speaking on 'The Information Turn' . Seminar 18th May 2021. Hosted by the University of Copenhagen.
March 2020 Cultural Exchange Festival, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, Leicester, online. In-Conversation: Histories of Information and Surveillance, with Dr Laura Skouvig. Watch here
April 2019 Distinguished Speaker Series, IT University of Copenhagen - 'The Racialisation of British Women During the Long Nineteenth Century'
April 2019 Surveillance, Information Ethics and Privacy Research Group, University of Copenhagen - 'Cambridge Women as Objects of Information, 1890-1914'
March 2019 Cultural Exchange Festival, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, Leicester. Chairing an international panel discussing Cold War Spy Stories in Eastern Europe, with Professors Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar, Carol Anne Costible-Heming and Corina Petrescu
Sept 2018 Keynote - Conference The Eyes and Ears of Power: Surveillance, History and Privacy, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Watch here
Nov 2017 Keynote - Reflections on Information History, a keynote talk given at the Library & Information History Group Annual Conference by myself and other former editors, to celebrate 50 years of the journal Library & Information History
March 2017 Keynote - The Potency of the Human Element: Information and Power in History, keynote lecture delivered to Huygens ING, part of the Royal Netherlands Academy for the Arts and Sciences, Free University of Amsterdam
May 2016 Invited address - Cambridge Women as Objects of Information, 1870-1920, lecture delivered to the annual conference of the Library & Information History Group, London
March 2011 Sex, Culture and Politics: The Art of English Satire from Georgian Debauchery to Victorian Morality, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University Cultural Exchange Week, Leicester
March 2010 The Origins of the Information Age: Surveillance, Knowledge and Power in Victorian Britain, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University Cultural Exchange Week, Leicester
Aug 2009 Exploring Information History: The Past Through the Eyes of the Information Age, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA
June 2009 History in the Information Age: A Mutable Past and Present? 29th Irish Conference of Historians; University of Limerick, Ireland. Invited paper for a JISC sponsored panel
April 2009 The Dichotomy of Representation: The Private and Public Self in the Nineteenth Century Knowledge Culture – convened strand for the Social History Society annual conference (panel with Edward Higgs, University of Essex and Helen Yallop, King’s College, London), University of Warwick
March 2009 Organiser and Chair of the Library and Information History Annual Conference, CILIP, London
March 2009 Plenary panel (with James Raven, University of Essex and Alistair Black, University of Illinois), of the international annual conference of the Library & Information History Group, London, discussing Future Directions for Information History
Nov 2008 Introducing Information History: Concepts, Questions and Research, Loughborough University
Oct 2008 Information History: Exploring an Emergent Field, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, Leicester
June 2008 Polite Information: Victorian Etiquette Books as Alternative Tools of Learning. Teaching and Text. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Annual Conference, Oxford Brookes University
June 2008 Searching for Culture: Etiquette, Self-Education and the Aspirant Classes – convened strand for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing & the Library and Information History Group (panel with Peter Hoare, University of Nottingham and Lauren Christos, Florida International University, Miami), Oxford Brookes University
June 2008 Applying Information History: The Relevance of Information History to Contemporary Information Policy and Planning, City, University of London
March 2008 Information History: The Historical Culture of Information. Social History Society Annual Conference, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
June 2007 Invited paper - Preserving Knowledge through Popular Victorian Periodicals: An Examination of the Penny Magazine and the Illustrated London News, 1842-1843. Making Connections Between Library, Book, Reading and Information History. Leeds Metropolitan University
April 2007 The Role of Behavioural Etiquette as a Social Regulator During the Nineteenth Century. Social History Society Annual Conference, University of Exeter
Feb 2007 Invited paper - Information History: Its Importance, Relevance, and Future, University of Lund, Sweden
Sept 2006 New Perceptions of the Victorian Information, City, University of London
Sept 2005 A New Approach: The Arrival of Informational History. Humanities, Computers and Cultural Heritage: 16th annual international conference, Association of History and Computing, Amsterdam
July 2005 Information History: A New Approach, City, University of London
June 2005 The Relevance of History and Historical Study within Information Policy, Information Policy Research Group, City, University of London