historical consultancy  

From hunting down nineteenth-century architectural plans in New York, medical diaries in London and spirit photography in Paris (among many other things), I’ve got extensive experience in libraries, archives and historic sites across the USA, UK and France. I’m also adept at finding niche information (and long-lost people) in online archives and newspaper records. To date, I’ve provided consultation for a diverse range of projects from around the world including:

• Demonstrating visual indicators of body decomposition in water for a film producer in LA

• Staging an accurate nineteenth-century American autopsy for an opera in Zurich

• Reconstructing a private doctor’s morgue at a museum in Savannah, Georgia

My areas of research expertise are broadly within the fields of social and cultural history, in particular policing, death, crime, mental health, institutions (prisons, asylums, workhouses, morgues), gender, society, poverty, photography and medicine. I’m open to dabbling in fringe cultures such as cults, spirit mediums and the paranormal, too (who isn’t?).

I speak English and French, and I’m available for projects internationally.