I am a curator, writer and editor with 25 years’ experience creating interpretation for museums, galleries and historic sites in Britain and Ireland. My clients include national, regional and local museums and cultural institutions as well as exhibition designers. My work includes planning interpretation as well as researching, writing & editing exhibition text, sourcing images and artefacts and oral history interviewing. 

Skills

• Skilled and experienced writer and editor of text for graphics, AV and websites.
• Creative in the development of exhibition themes and narratives and in using text, images, film and artefacts to support these narratives to engage different audiences.
• Experienced in the interpretation of complex, difficult and sensitive histories.
• A very broad knowledge base gained from interpreting many different aspects of history and pre-history enables me to make creative and unexpected connections.
• Able to work closely with 2-D, 3-D, interactive and AV designers to produce a multi-layered and coherent visitor experience.
• Used to working with multiple, complex stakeholder groups, facilitating debate and supporting the generation of consensus to ensure effective development and sign-off.

Selected Projects and Clients

St George the Martyr, Queen Square, London - together with Leah Harrison Bailey, developing the interpretation plan for the church's NLHF-funded development phase bid

St Mary le Strand, London - developed an interpretation plan with Leah Harrison Bailey as part of the church's successful Stage Two NLHF bid to deliver the Jewel in the Strand project, awarded £4.6 million in January 2026

University College London - recently curated two exhibitions for UCL's Prejudice in Power programme, one online and the other in the university's Student Centre. These explore the legacies of the pseudo-science of eugenics with which UCL was closely connected, and involved working with colleagues across UCL as well as co-curator groups.

Civic Trust House, Cork - commissioned to undertake archival research on history of one of the city's oldest houses, built in the early 1700s. The research will inform interpretation and fed into the development of audio monologues by Strive Theatre Company in 2025. These can now be accessed here.

Chelsea Physic Garden, London - have worked on a number of interpretation projects with the Garden in the last four years along with colleague Maria Blyzinsky, which included script writing for the NLHF-funded re-interpretation of historic glasshouses and their plants

V&A Dundee - text consultant for Garden Futures (2025), Photo City (2024), Tartan (2023)

Imperial War Museums - interviewer Voices of Service project with British veterans of Afghanistan conflict (2024); curator of exhibitions including Churchill Museum (2005), War to Windrush (2008), Syria (2017); editor First World War Galleries (2014)

Royal Museums Greenwich - interpretation consultant for First Light project at Royal Observatory (2023); research and content development for temporary exhibitions including Samuel Pepys (2014), Tudor & Stuart Seafarers and Polar Worlds (2018)

Titanic Belfast (2010-12) - developed all the content for this landmark exhibition, which has had 7.5 million visitors and regenerated areas of the former shipyard

V&A; Tate; Hunterian Museum; London Transport Museum; Wellcome Collection; Somerset House; University College London, Royal Shakespeare Company research, scriptwriting & editing for all these institutions in the last 25 years

Volunteer Roles

Trustee, Maritime Belfast Trust preserving and promoting Belfast’s maritime heritage

Co-founder West Cork History Festival www.westcorkhistoryfestival.org

Education

1993-1996 New Hall, University of Cambridge, BA (Hons) in History

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