Burgh House and Hampstead Museum have asked me to give two talks on Ford Madox Brown. The first one will be 'Ford Madox Brown - Painting the Hampstead Years' , an illustrated talk on Friday, 6th June 2008 at 2:15. It will explore Madox Brown’s connections with Hampstead, where he lodged at 33 High Street for about a year from June 1852. His stay in Hampstead inspired 'Work" - one of his greatest and most discussed paintings.

Burgh House & Hampstead Museum
New End Square, Hampstead
London, NW3 1LT
www.burghhouse.org.uk

I have written a biographical essay - Vieux Fordy: Death of a Modern Man - for the forthcoming catalogue of a new exhibition, "Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite", Works on Paper by Ford Madox Brown from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, showing at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, B3 3DH, from 24 August - 14 December 2008.

I am currently writing a book about Ford Madox Brown and the women in his life and art, to be published by Chatto and Windus, approx 2009.

On September 19, 2007 I presented a paper at the University of Genoa entitled 'From Paint to Print - Nonno's Legacy' at a conference entitled 'Ford Madox Ford: Visual Arts and Media' . It can be read here

Following its exhibition in 2007 of the drawings of Burne-Jones, Hidden Burne-Jones, the City Museum and Art Gallery in Birmingham, U.K. is planning an exhibition of the drawings held there by Ford Madox Brown. This is scheduled to open late summer 2008. I shall be contributing a biographical chapter to the exhibition catalogue which will focus on the women in Madox Brown’s life and art.

I have written the entry for William Michael Rossetti for the forthcoming Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism - to be published approx 2007/8 in hard copy by Academia Press, Ghent, and the British Library, and online by Proquest. William Rossetti disliked the prevailing nineteenth-century conventions of anonymous reviews and took care to sign most of his articles. His mission in journalism was to popularize the arts for all sections of the Victorian public.

I shall be writing a chapter in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites on ‘William Michael Rossetti and the other Pre-Raphaelites’. Publication is planned for 2009.