The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition was a collaboration between Birkbeck, University of London , King’s College London (Centre for Computing in the Humanities and the Department of English), the British Library and Olive Software, all of whom were named partners in the AHRC project. Over the funded period of the project a number of people worked on it from these institutions. In the latter stages of the project, we also employed a team of editorial assistants who helped with the digital editing of the resource. This page provides brief details about everyone who contributed to the project.

Birkbeck, University of London

Associate Director

Dr Isobel Armstrong, Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck, University of London.

Isobel was one of the initiators of the project. She has recently published a monograph entitled Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination, 1830-1880 published by Oxford University Press.

Project Director

Dr Laurel Brake, Senior Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Print Culture.

Laurel was the Project Director of ncse. She is also co-editor of the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism and has published widely on nineteenth-century print culture.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr Jim Mussell, Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham.

Jim was the part-time postdoctoral researcher on ncse until December 2007, and saw it through its final development January-May 2008. He is the author of Science, Time and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press, published by Ashgate in 2007.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr Suzanne Paylor. Suzanne worked on the project as the full-time postdoctoral researcher until December 2007.  She has a background in history of science, print culture and digital humanties. She convenes a postgraduate 'Introduction to Digital Humanities' course at Birkbeck, University of London and provides consultancy to various e-learning, database and digitisation based projects in academia and the public sector .

King’s College London

Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)

Technical Research Directors

Current Project Team

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Department of English

Associate Director

Dr Mark Turner, Reader in English at King’s College London.

Mark worked closely on ncse from its inception. He is Reader in English Literature and has published widely on nineteenth-century print culture and queer studies.

British Library

Associate Director

Ed King, Head of Newspapers at the British Library.

Ed has been involved closely with ncse from its outset. He is Head of Newspapers at the British Library and has published on nineteenth-century print culture.

Olive Software

Chezkie Kasnett, Project Manager for Olive Software

Chezkie worked closely on the Olive components of ncse from 2007, and very closely with the ncse team in the closing stages of the project

Uri Ben Tvzi, Project Manager for Olive Software.

Uri was Olive’s representative for the ncse work in 2006.

Irit Reznikov, Project Manager for Olive Software.

Irit was Olive’s representative at the beginning of the project, from January 2005 to 2006.

Editorial Assistants

Dr Chrissie Bradstreet.

Chrisse was an editorial assistant from June to July 2007. Chrissie currently works at the Watts Gallery.

Clara Brennan, postgraduate student, Kingston University

Clara was an editorial assistant from September 2007 until the project launch in May 2008. She is a playwright and is currently working on a PhD on Theatre and Human Rights at Kingston University.

Dr Greta Depledge.

Greta was an editorial assistant from July to November 2007. She has recently completed a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London.

Rob Maidens, postgraduate student in English, Birkbeck College

Rob was an editorial assistant from May 2007 until the project launch in May 2008. He is working on a PhD in the mid nineteenth-century novel at Birkbeck College.

Brian Murray, postgraduate student in English, King’s College London

Brian was an editorial assistant from September 2007 until the project launch in May 2008. He is working on a PhD on the journalist, author and explorer Henry Morton Stanley.

Jason Narlock, postgraduate student in English, King’s College London

Jason was an editorial assistant from September 2007 until March 2008. He is currently writing a PhD at King’s College London.

Indra Pillay, postgraduate student in English, King’s College London

Indra was an editorial assistant from December 2007 until the project launch in May 2008. She is currently writing an MPhil in English at King’s College London.

Dr Matthew Taunton.

Matthew Taunton was an editorial assistant April-May 2007. He recently completed a PhD at the London Consortium.

Faye Thompson, postgraduate, MA in History of the Book, Institute of English Studies, University of London

Faye Thompson supervised the work of the Editorial Assistants on ncse. She worked on the project from June 2007 until the project launch in May 2008.

Dr Victoria Williams.

Victoria was an editorial assistant from September 2007 until the project launch in May 2008. Her doctorate investigated fairytales in nineteenth-century literature, art and film.