Books

'Finding Birt Acres: The Rediscovery of a Film Pioneer', Co-author with Deac Rossell and Barry Anthony (University of Exeter Press, forthcoming June 2025). https://www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/finding-birt-acres

Reference Works

Film Atlas - I am both a contributor of entries and peer reviewer for this ongoing project by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. My entry on the 'Friese-Greene Machine Camera' was in the first group to go online. Access is currently only for FIAF members, but will eventually be public.

Journal Articles

'William Friese-Greene and the Art of Collaboration', Early Popular Visual Culture 22:4 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2024.2428487. Open Access. In its first week online it reached the top 13% of all research outputs tracked by Altmetric.

Other Articles
‘In The Beginning: Cinema's Murky Origin Story’, Sight & Sound, March 2021, vol. 31, no. 2, pp19-20. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/origins-cinema-early-inventors-pioneers

'Twenty years after MOMI, who cares about Britain’s film history?', The Guardian, August 19, 2019,  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/19/twenty-years-after-momi-who-cares-about-britains-film-history

Book Reviews

The Story of Victorian Film by Bryony Dixon, Journal of British Cinema and Television, 21:4 (2024), https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/jbctv.2024.0743

Picturegoing: A Critical Anthology of Eyewitness Experiences by Luke McKernan, Historical Journal Of Film Radio and Television 43(4):1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2189665

The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies by Paul Fischer, Early Popular Visual Culture 21(1): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2022.2110788.

The Kinematograph Theatre Arrives: Part III of The London County Council and the Cinematograph by Tony Fletcher, for the Historical Journal of Radio, Film & Television, vol. 42, No. 1, January 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2021.2018192

Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema by Prof. Ian Christie, for Journal of British Cinema and Television, April 2021, vol. 18, no. 2. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0579

Contributor

Essay 'William Friese-Greene and Me' in, Melanie Kelly (ed.), Opening Up The Magic Box: Friese-Greene and Reflections on Film, (Bristol: Bristol Ideas, 2021) PDF downloadable from https://www.bristolideas.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Film2021-Opening-Up-the-Magic-Box-200pp-A5-SOFT.pdf

Consultant for Deac Rossell, Chronology of the Birth of Cinema 1833-1896, (New Barnet: John Libbey Publishing/ Indiana Press, 2022)

Entry on William Friese-Greene, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 and online at https://www.oxforddnb.com/))

Entries on William Friese-Greene and John Arthur Roebuck Rudge, Luke McKernan & Stephen Herbert (eds.), Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey (London: BFI, 1996 and online at https://www.victorian-cinema.net)

Blog
Author of the blog William Friese-Greene & Me at https://friesegreene.com/ (Dec 2017 to present) which presents original research on early film history for a broad readership. In Feedspot’s Top 20 Silent Movie Blogs and Websites to Follow in 2019, 2020 & 2021.