Shells, shores and beyond: the dark side of one woman’s pioneering shell collection, as revealed by letters I read in a new English Heritage exhibition

After working with English Heritage on writing and voice projects for Whitby Abbey and Belsay Hall, I was delighted to be asked to read letters from the archives of 18th-century shell-collector Bridget Atkinson for their new exhibition at Chesters Roman Fort in Northumberland. Bridget had many identities: the daughter of industrial tanners from Cumbria, she […]