Areas of responsibility
The Head of the Western Heritage Collection is responsible for the curation of over 2000 years of printed, manuscript and archival resources from around Britain and the wider world in a wide array of formats. His team is made up of four curatorial areas covering Ancient, Medieval & Early Modern Manuscripts, Modern Archives & Manuscripts, Music Collections and Printed Heritage Collections.
Areas of expertise
My main research interests are the written legacy of classical Greece and Rome; the manuscript tradition of the Bible; European illuminated manuscripts; late medieval and Renaissance European history, art and culture; the history of the British Library’s collections. Based on this I have curated four major exhibitions held by the British Library: The Mythical Quest (1996), Illuminating the Renaissance (2003-4), Sacred (2007) and Royal Manuscripts (2011-12).
For the catalogue of Illuminating the Renaissance my co-author Thomas Kren and I were awarded the Eric Mitchell Prize for the best exhibition catalogue of 2002-3 and the Eugène Baie Prize for the best publication on the history of Flemish civilization, culture or art in 1998-2002.
Royal Manuscripts was based on a research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council for which I was the Principal Investigator and Professor John Lowden of the Courtauld Institute of Art the Co-Investigator.
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