‘Women of Excellent Understanding’: The Wives and Daughters of the Lunar Society
Needwood Arts Society, Lichfield, March 2022

‘Women of Excellent Understanding’: The Wives and Daughters of the Lunar Society
Bridgnorth Historical Society, March 2022

‘Women of Excellent Understanding’: The Wives and Daughters of the Lunar Society
Broseley Local History Society, March 2022

‘Healthy and Expedient’: Childcare and Charity at the Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital 1759 – 1772
Church Stretton Local Area History Group, March 2020

Women and Girls in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
Wednesday Club, Lichfield, September – December 2019

‘Of Material Service to Him’: Margaret Miller Watt and Ann McGregor Watt, the Wives of James Watt
James Watt Symposium, University of Birmingham, August 2019

‘Women of Excellent Understanding’: The Wives and Daughters of the Lunar Society
Soho House, Birmingham, February 2019

‘Healthy and Expedient’: Childcare and Charity at the Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital 1759 – 1772
Friends of Shropshire Archives, November 2018

‘All the Makings of a Good Town’: From Dawley to Telford New Town
Wrekin Historical Society, November 2018

‘Practical Lessons of Wisdom’: Maria Edgeworth, the Lunar Circle’s Novelist
Birmingham and Midland Institute, July 2018

‘Women of Excellent Understanding’: The Wives and Daughters of the Lunar Society
The Forgotten Revolutionary Players Study Day, History West Midlands, University of Birmingham, June 2018

The Adventurous History of Sabrina Sidney, 1757 -1843
Wrekin Historical Society, November 2017

‘Healthy and Expedient’: Childcare and Charity at the Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital 1759 – 1772
Shropshire Family History Society, September 2017

‘Practical Lessons of Wisdom’: Maria Edgeworth, the Lunar Circle’s Novelist
Darwin House, Lichfield, March 2017

‘Healthy and Expedient’: Childcare and Charity at the Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital 1759 – 1772
Wrekin Historical Society, November 2016

‘Healthy and Expedient’: Childcare and Charity at the Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital 1759 – 1772
Blore Rural District Historical Society, October 2016

‘Healthy and Expedient’: Childcare and Charity at the Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital 1759 – 1772
Shropshire Antiques Society, May 2016

‘Healthy and Expedient’: Childcare and Charity at the Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital 1759 – 1772
Birmingham and Midland Institute, October 2015

Women in Eighteenth Century Birmingham: Enlightenment, Work and Education
Birmingham Cathedral, October 2015

Natural Daughters and Deserted Children: Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth and Eighteenth Century Illegitimacy
British Federation of Women Graduates [Sutton Coldfield Branch], Sutton Coldfield, October 2015

The Adventurous History of Sabrina Sidney, 1757 – 1843
Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society, September 2015

The Adventurous History of Sabrina Sidney, 1757 – 1843
Stonnall and Lynn Historical Society, Stonnall, April 2015

Lunaticks and their Ladies: The Wives and Daughters of the Lunar Society
The Johnson Society, Lichfield, January 2015

Lunaticks Ladies in Staffordshire: The Women of  the Darwin and Wedgwood Families
Darwin Day School, Erasmus Darwin House, Lichfield, October 2014

Lunaticks Ladies in Staffordshire: The Women of  the Darwin and Wedgwood Families
Staffordshire History Day, Staffordshire, March 2014

Lunaticks and their Ladies: The Wives and Daughters of the Lunar Society
Lunar Society Lecture, University of Birmingham, February 2013

Use of Sources in Research
BECC Seminar, University of Birmingham, October 2012

‘The Personal is Political’: Rousseau and the Lunar Circle in the late Eighteenth-Century West Midlands
Eric Hopkins Lecture, University of Birmingham, October 2012

‘Is it possible to hate a father?’: Lunar Men and Patriarchy
Universities of Birmingham and Warwick Seminar, University of Warwick, May 2012

A Spartan Experiment in Staffordshire : Rousseau, Education and the Lunar Men
Staffordshire History Day, Staffordshire, February 2012

Useful Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century Seminar  (Contributor)
Universities of Birmingham and Warwick Seminar, Soho House, May 2011

Luna Talks, Education panel (Contributor)
Ikon Gallery, March 2011

‘The amiable, unfortunate Mrs B:  Anna Seward, Sabrina Sidney and 18th Century Female Friendship’
Staffordshire Archives Day School, Stafford, February 2011

‘Healthy and Expedient’: Childcare and Charity at the Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital 1759 – 1772
British Federation of Women Graduates [Sutton Coldfield Branch], Lichfield, July 2010

Natural Daughters and Deserted Children: Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth and Eighteenth Century Illegitimacy
Jane Austen Day School, University of Birmingham, February 2010

‘The amiable, unfortunate Mrs B’:  Anna Seward, Sabrina Sidney and 18th Century Female Friendship
Keele Local Studies Seminar, Keele University, November 2009

‘Amuse and Instruct’: Education at the Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital, 1759 – 1769
Education in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, October 2009

‘Healthy and Expedient’: Childcare and Charity at the Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital 1759 – 1772
Local Studies Conference, University of Leicester, July 2009

Lunatick Wives and Daughters
National Women’s Register Study Day, Stoke Art Gallery and Museum, June 2009

‘Amuse and Instruct’: Education at the Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital, 1759 – 1769
DOMUS, University of Birmingham, May 2009

‘Romantic fancies and adventurous history’: Literary Representations of Sabrina Sidney
Social History Society Conference, University of Warwick, April 2009

‘The amiable, unfortunate Mrs B’:  Anna Seward, Sabrina Sidney and 18th Century Female Friendship
Anna Seward Day School, University of Birmingham, March 2009

Retrieving Sabrina from the Footnotes: Archives and Post-graduate research
History of Education Society (UK) Research Conference, Birmingham Central Library,
June 2008