Outside the Ivory Tower : Research, creativity and serendipity

Dr Abigail Williams, St Peter’s College, University of

Oxford

Engaging with the world

Science cafe at Bath

Bright Club, UCL

Storytelling and research

Illustration in title pages of Laugh and Be Fat

Miscellanies in performance• Places – Yorkshire, Shoreditch

• Themes – sport

Authors – Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen

Collections – Bodleian, Chawton house library

Site specific – taking music home to Richmond

Taking miscellanies to the Geffrye museum of the home: parlour of 1745

Make your work work harder