
- Position
- Research Development Manager
- Specialism
- collaborative research, eighteenth century British art, William Blake, correspondence studies, Christianity and art
- Department
- Collections
- Related Offices
- Member of AHRC Peer Review College
Naomi works with colleagues across the Library to develop research projects and collaborations with partners organisations.
She is the Research Development lead for the following areas in the Library:
Naomi also coordinates the Coleridge Fellowship for Library staff, and the Library's involvement in our joint doctoral fellowships with the National Trust.
Before joining the British Library in 2020, Naomi was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester, where she was involved in a variety of research collaborations, including co-founding the Manchester Centre for Correspondence Studies. She previously held research roles at the Diocese of Chichester and King’s College London.
Naomi’s doctoral research focused on the figure of Christ in the art of William Blake, and she has since researched and published on topics including William Blake, twentieth century ecclesiastical art, and biblical painting and illustration in late eighteenth century Britain.
The Visionary Art of William Blake: Christianity, Romanticism and the Pictorial Imagination (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018).
Read a sample chapter via our Research Repository.
Bible Illustrations (Manchester Digital Collections, 2020).
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'“The Great Bowyer Bible”: Robert Bowyer and the Macklin Bible', in Journal of Illustration 8.1 (2021), pp. 51–80.
'“As the Eye Is Formed”: Seeing as Christ in Blake’s Bartimaeus', in The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Elizabeth Ludlow (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. 39–52.
‘Re-viewing William Blake’s Paradise Regained (c.1816–1820)’, in Religion and the Arts 22.1–2 (2018), pp. 16–39.
‘“On the Stocks”: Biblical watercolours from the Felpham Period’, in William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion, ed. Andrew Loukes (London: National Trust in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, 2018), pp. 33–45.
‘Citizens of “London” as Members of the Divine Body in William Blake’s biblical illustrations’, in Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion, ed. Ben Quash, Aaron Rosen and Chloë Reddaway (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017), pp. 89–101.
View more publications by Naomi Billingsley in our Research Repository.
View Naomi Billingsley's list of publications on her ORCiD profile.
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