Academic Publications
Books
The First Curator: Anthony Baines and the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments (forthcoming 2024)
Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs, (ed. with Julia Bishop). London: The Ballad Partners (forthcoming 2024)
The Anthony Baines Archive. Oxford: Bate Colllection, 2021 - buy it here
Journal articles and book chapters
‘A Map of Absurdities’: music and national identity in eighteenth-century England (submitted for review)
Tune collecting and musical taxonomies in eighteenth-century English tunebooks. Literature Compass (forthcoming 2024)
Authorship and Authenticity in John and William Crotch’s Original Airs (1803), in Andrew Woolley (ed), Authorship and Authorial Identity in Historical Keyboard Music. London: Routledge, 2023, pp. 189–200
The Baines Family and the Bate Collection, National Early Music Association vi/2 (Autumn 2022)
The Sketchbooks of John Malchair, 1730-1812. The Pelican Record, LVIII (2022), pp. 10-19
‘For the sake of difference among them’: John Malchair’s Categorizations of Tunes, 1760-95. Folk Music Journal 11.5:52-66 (2020)
John Malchair: tune-collecting in 18th-Century England. A Handbook for Studies in 18th-Century English Music XXI:71-88 (2017)
‘Good morning, ladies and gentlemen’: songs, music and musical instruments in the Percy Manning collection, in M Heaney (ed), Percy Manning: The Man Who Collected Oxfordshire. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2017, pp. 221-255
Percy Manning, Henry Balfour, Thomas Carter, and the Collecting of Traditional English Musical Instruments. Folk Music Journal 11.1:25-41 (2016)
‘Captain Kennedy’s Mandolin’, and other English musical instruments at the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum. Journal of Museum Ethnography 23:117-128 (2010)
Whit-Horn; Kennedy’s Mandolin; Whittle and Dub: three object biographies published online as part of the Pitt Rivers Museum’s Englishness Project, The Other Within (2008)
Free and Squeezy: The New Web Catalogue at the Horniman Museum. Papers of the International Concertina Association Volume 5:96-7 (2008)
Book reviews
England’s Folk Revival and the Problem of Identity in Traditional Music (Joseph Williams), Folk Music Journal 12.4:160–61 (2024)
Sound in Time, review of Sound Heritage: Making Music Matter in Historic Houses, (eds Jeanice Brooks, Matthew Stephens and Wiebe Thormählen), Early Music 50.4:531-33 (2022)
Podcast
Folk Tunes and Englishness, Bird Lime Media: 2021 Listen here
Press, reports and online articles
Anthony Baines: A Life in Music, Linacre News, issue 57, 2022, pp. 10–11
The Baines Family and the Bate Collection, an article about the second phase of the Baines Project. The Oxford Musician, October 2022, pp. 8–9
Education at the Bate Collection: past, present and future. CIMCIM Proceedings, 2022
John Malchair and Eighteenth-Century English Tunebooks: a short article about John Malchair’s music collecting, including some of his drawings of Oxford, published in The Oxford Musician (p. 11) in October 2020.
Musical Instrument Collectors and Collections, report on the joint Bate Collection/Galpin Society international conference. Galpin Society Newsletter, no. 56 (Spring 2020), pp. 14–16
Library treasures inspire exciting project, an article about Alice’s Knowledge Exchange Fellowship project with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, published in their quarterly magazine, English Dance and Song in winter 2019.
A Treasure in Every Encounter, report on the CIMCIM conference—the musical instruments museums branch of the International Council of Museums, Kyoto, September 2019
The Anthony Baines Archive at the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments: this article details Alice’s project at the Bate, and was published in the Music Faculty’s annual magazine, The Oxford Musician (p. 14) in June 2019.
On Englishness, a literature review for the Romantic National Song Network, summarising some existing work on the subject of Englishness, and asking why there were so few publications of English national music in the eighteenth century. June 2019
John Malchair’s categories of music: Welsh, Irish, Scotch, a blog post for the Romantic National Song Network, about Malchair’s categorisation of national music. March 2019
‘Unsung Musicians’ named in John Malchair’s Collection, a guest blog post for the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, detailing some of the individuals who provided tunes for his collection. June 2018
To Learne the Arte: observations on John Malchair’s teaching at Oxford, 1760-1797, a guest blog for EAERN, the Eighteenth-century Arts Education Research Network, March 2018
Cultures of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland, review of study day, for RECSO (Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford), April 2017
From National Character to National Origins: reactions to J. B. Malchair’s collection of ‘national music’ in history blog Four Nations History, January 2017
Collecting Street Music in 18th Century Oxford in Crossword: the St Cross College magazine (2016) pp. 26-7
National Music, Folk Music and Street Music in Eighteenth-Century Oxford, in online classical music journal, Corymbus, November 2016