Blog posts
Selected articles from the last 10 years
Read: When erasing history works: telling sharper stories at the Tower of London, via Maxwell Museums, 2025
Read: A Final Cut: The Barberess of Barts Hospital, 2024
Read: Exhibition: Life and death in the archives: St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1123-2023
Read: Snakes alive! How the Reptile House at London Zoo started a thirty-year medical mystery, 2021, British Society for Haematology
Read: 'Little Vickelchen’: sketches of Queen Victoria as a girl, 2019, Historic Royal Palaces
Read 'The world becomes more evil everyday': Happy New Year from the Duchess, 2019, Historic Royal Palaces
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Read: 'Museum Careers - the freelancers perspective' 2018, ​UCL Careers
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Posts from the Royal College of Physicians Museum, 2012-2016
Read: 'Drink up your drink and leave none in: the 17th century caudle cup'​
Read: George's marvelous medicine: the physicians of George III
Read: 'A beautiful and unbroken marriage of souls': 17th century physicians John Finch and Thomas Baines
Read: The redoubtable Miss Cook: A woman in the college
Read: Our favourite John Dee objects
Read: The Censors Room: gateway to an ancient institution
Read: 'This exquisite slender chalice': a Victorian gold champagne cup
Read: Irascible Radcliffe: the unlikely librarian Sir John Radcliffe
Read: Silver, silence and shillings: traditions of the physicians
Read: Respect the geometry: a Denys Lasdun celebration
Read: One for sorrow: Death at the sign of the magpie
Selected publications and lectures
Crafter's Companion, Crafts Council gallery review, Museums Journal, June 2021
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Advancing disability equality through cultural institutions, Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester, 2020
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Portraying pregnancy: From Holbein to Social media, Foundling Museum, exhibition review, Museums Journal, 2020
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Medicine: the Wellcome galleries, Science Museum, exhibition review, Museums Journal, 2020
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Mechano-therapy and Princess Victoria: The Indian clubs at Kensington Palace, Mechanical medicine, conference paper, Science Museum, London, May 2019
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The Anatomy of Melancholy, Bethlem Museum of the Mind, exhibition review Museums Journal, 2019
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The Endeavour Galleries, National Maritime Museum, London, exhibition review, Museums Journal, 2019
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Reframing disability: Exhibiting difference in the medical museum, Shepley, E. and Telfer, B. p35-63 in Representing Disability in Museums, Imaginary and Identities Patricia Roque Martins, et al, 2018
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Inclusion and Disability: An insight from a Human Rights Perspective, panel discussion and workshop leader at the Second International Symposium on Arts & Disability, Museo Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico City, 2-3 March 2017
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Bethlem Museum of the Mind museum review, Museums Journal, 2015
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Reframing disability: exhibiting difference in the medical museum, Museums Association conference lecture, September 2015
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Raspings of a human skull unburied: art meets medicine at the Royal College of Physicians, Centre for Visual Arts and Culture, University of Durham lecture, June 2015
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The anatomical tables of the Royal College of Physicians, Oxford-Globe forum lecture, University of Oxford, February 2015
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Royal College of Physicians collection, Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden: Vol II by The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013
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Reframing Disability: portraits from the Royal College of Physicians, edited by Bridget Telfer, Emma Shepley and Carol Reeves, Royal College of Physicians, 2011
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Editor, Denys Lasdun’s Royal College of Physicians by Barnabas Calder, The Royal College of Physicians, 2008
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Chapters: Georgian Crime, Pleasure Gardens and 19th century Policing, London: the illustrated history, edited by Cathy Ross and John Clark, Allen Lane, 2008.
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The Haslemere Context in The Lost Arts of Europe, edited by David Crowley & Lou Taylor, Haslemere Educational Museum, 2000