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Accounting for lives: Autobiography and biography in the accounts of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1642–1666 (2019)
Journal Article

This article significantly adds to the literature on the value of financial accounts, demonstrating their worth as both an autobiographical and biographical source. It argues that elite accounts can be seen both as a biography of the master, and an a... Read More about Accounting for lives: Autobiography and biography in the accounts of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1642–1666.

Continuing the contradictions: A multimodal investigation into the front covers of real-life magazines (2019)
Journal Article

Studies analysing women’s magazines note contradiction as a common theme, whether it be the content of the magazines and the ideological values presented therein, or at broader, political levels. This paper empirically investigates to what extent con... Read More about Continuing the contradictions: A multimodal investigation into the front covers of real-life magazines.

“When something is wrong we write it”: The portrayal of female genital mutilation in children’s literature (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 BY BOOKBIRD, INC. Focusing on Williams-Garcia’s No Laughter Here (2004) and Craigie’s What Was Never Said (2015), this article questions their representation of female genital mutilation (FGM). It considers the use of voice, writing, and siste... Read More about “When something is wrong we write it”: The portrayal of female genital mutilation in children’s literature.