St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool

Back in the early part of the year I promised Mike Faulkner who runs the St James’s Cemetery website that I would write a piece about Robert Cain for him, to go with the biographies of other Liverpool notables he has listed there, including William Huskisson, Kitty Wilkinson, and William Brown. Last night I finally [...]

Key Ideas Project Starting

Work for the Key Ideas book is starting to get underway now. The deadline for contributors to submit entries is 29 June but we’ve already begun to receive submissions. It feels a bit strange to be starting on this project before the Cain’s book is finished, but in many ways it’s good to be looking [...]

Liverpool: A Sense of Time and Place Conference

I’ve just received the final programme for the Liverpool: A Sense of Time and Place conference organised by the Liverpool Culture Company. It will take place on Friday and Saturday the 14th and 15th of September. I will be giving a paper on “Robert Cain: Irish Slummy, Gentleman Brewer” on Friday afternoon in the session [...]

The Reader Online

As of this week I’m going to be helping out at The Reader developing their online content, including the blog, which I have just “finished” revamping. The new blog will cover news about books, reading, reading groups, interviews, reviews of reading technology, and opinion pieces. As a print magazine and mothership for a whole flotilla [...]