1/2 New article published! Co-written with
Dr Emma Gleadhill, this piece traces how Napoleon’s wish to rest beneath Australian acacias was replaced by the weeping willow as a symbol of mourning, and how this botanical myth spread across Australia and back to St Helena.

1/2 First book proofs!
Women, Gardens, and Agency in Imperial Russia is finally becoming real.
This project asks us to look beyond sovereigns and recognise how a non-regnant consort like Maria Feodorovna used gardens to intervene in politics.

1/2 Bessie Davidson is another artist who stood out. Forgotten in Australia (she never returned), she made her mark in France with luminous interiors. As a feminist, she elevated overlooked spaces like nurseries and domestic interiors as part of the fight for equality.

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I recently visited the Dangerously Modern exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, and I was completely blown away. So many fascinating women artists were uncovered during its preparation, their stories largely forgotten until now.

1/8 Excited to share my review of Rosalind Blakesley’s "Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great" in the latest issue of Slavonic & East European Review. Link - muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...

My copy of "Napoleonic Objects and Their Afterlives" has arrived! My chapter with Emma Gleadhill follows the Napoleonic collection Dame Mabel Brookes assembled in the early 20th century, now quietly housed in the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.

Call for Papers – Voltaire in the Baltic World: Circulations, Receptions, Legacies

Our colleague Sophie Turner is organising this exciting conference in Tarttu, Estonia, next year, which the Voltaire Foundation is supporting.

www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

1/ While in Townsville for a conference, I was excited to discover the Wedgwood exhibition I’d quietly been hoping to see, and yes, I slipped away to visit.
Here are a few highlights from a truly wonderful experience.

1/ This Wednesday at 9am at the AHA in Townsville, I’ll be presenting a collaborative paper with
Dr Emma Gleadhill on the history of Napoleonic willows in Australia. It’s a story about memory, misidentification, and botanical imperialism.

A lovely surprise: my book "Women, Green Spaces and the Politics of Empowerment in Imperial Russia.
Empress Maria Feodorovna's Pavlovsk Park" is now listed in the publisher's online catalogue! www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-gre...

1/3 In 1975, Dame Mabel Brookes left the National Gallery of Victoria 380+ Napoleonic items — objects, letters, furniture, prints.
She built the collection to link her family to Napoleon on St Helena and inscribe them into world history.

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I'm so excited to share that my article with Emma Gleadhill, "Making Napoleonic Memory in Australia: the Dame Mabel Brookes Collection," has just been published in Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives, edited by Matilda Greig and Nicole Cochrane.