2011

Robin Hood and 'her' Merry Women: a society of Freemasons in an early eighteenth-century London pleasure garden.

The Women's Studies Group: 1558-1837, University of London, 24 September 2011, more ...

Musical Masons of the Middling Sort

Symposium: 'Eighteenth-century Strand'
Centre for Life-writing Research, Department of English, Kings College London, 25 March 2011, more ...

2010

Robin Hood and 'her' Merry Women: a society of Freemasons in an early eighteenth-century London pleasure garden.

Conference: Les femmes et la franc-maçonnerie, des Lumières à nos jours.

University of Bordeaux in collaboration with Musée d’Aquitaine. 17-19 June 2010 (Event brochure ...)

2009

Freemasons' Lives: The Case of Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)

Enlightenment Lives: a symposium, more ...

The Centre for Life-Writing Research, School of Arts & Humanities, Kings College London, 7 May 2009, more ...

Translations/Transpositions: the English roots of francophone masonic songs in early eighteenth-century Europe

Study Day : Les Muses Maçonnes au siècle des Lumières [The Masonic Muses of the Enlightenment] Centre d'Étude de la Langue et de la Littérature Françaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (CELLF 17-18), CNRS, Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV, and Centre Interdisciplinaire Bordelais d’Etudes des Lumières (CIBEL) Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III.

Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV. 18 March 2009. (Event brochure ... )

Ingmar Bergman and Mozart's 'Magic Flute'

A screening and panel discussion, investigating the links between Mozart’s work, its interpretation in Bergman's 1975 film, and freemasonry. Member of the panel, along with Professor James Stevens Curl (The Queen's University of Belfast), Professor Malcolm Davies (Leiden University), Professor Andrew Linn (Sheffield University), and Annika Lindskog (UCL)

The Showroom Cinema, Sheffield, Monday 16 February 2009, in collaboration with the Centre for Research into Freemasonry & Fraternalism (CRFF), Department of History, Sheffield University

2008

Patrons, Performers and Politics: Freemasons at the Theatre in Early Eighteenth-century London

Conference: De spreekkunst, dichtkunst, toonkunst, literatuur, beeldende kunst en architectuur van de Vrijmetselarij [The Expression of Freemasonry: Its ritual, oratory, poetry, music, literature, art and architecture] (more ...)

The Leiden Institute of Religious Studies (Faculty of Humanities), Leiden University, Holland. 27-28 November 2008

(An earlier version of this paper was given at the conference, John Rich and the Eighteenth-century London Stage: Magic and Management (more ...)

The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, 25-27 January 2008

2007

The 'Philo-musicae' Society: Middle-class Freemasons and Problematic Patrons of Italian Music and Musicians in Early Eighteenth-century London

Conference, Friendly and Fraternal in London. The Archives for London (more ...) 2nd Annual Conference.~

The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, Freemasons Hall, London, 3 November 2007

2006

Mozart and Freemasonry in the 18th-century Habsburg Empire.

Study-day, Mozart and Masonry: Reconsiderations and Revisions.

Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, 12 December 2006. More ...

English Masonic Lodges, Pipe Organs and National Heritage (more ...)

Study Day organised by The British Institute of Organ Studies (BIOS).

The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, Freemasons Hall, London. 25 November 2006.
(More ...)

The Letters of John Theohphilus Desaguiiers, web project (January 2006, ongoing)

London's Masonic Processions and the Patriot Opposition

Part of a panel on the subject of Freemasonry and the Circle of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales).Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS).

St. Hugh's College, Oxford 4-6 January 2006. More ...

2005

We Called Him Brother: What was Mozart's real contribution to Habsburg freemasonry?

UK Postgraduate Research into Freemasonry: an interdisciplinary seminar Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, more ... )

Freemasons Hall , London, December 2005.

Musical Freemasons in Early Eighteenth-Century London

Conference 'La Franc-Maçonnerie entre réformes et révolutions à l'époque des lunières: Europe-Ameriques'

Centre interdisciplinaire bordelais d'étude des lumières (CIBEL), Bordeaux III, Bordeaux. 17-19 November 2005

2004

Collapsing Time and Space: James Anderson, history, science, and the manipulation of eighteenth-century print.

UK Postgraduate Research into Freemasonry: an interdisciplinary seminar.

UCL Library Services' Special Collections (more ...), December 2004.

The London of Obadiah Shuttleworth.

An illustrated pre-concert talk on the occassion of the first modern performance of Shuttleworth's two concerti grossi after Corelli. November 2004 (for more about this event see under 'Publications and Recordings' below)

2003

The music in Anderson's Constitutions (1723) : purpose and practice

Conference Freemasonry in Music and Literature' (more ...). Canonbury Tower, London. Autumn 2003. Published as When They Sing: The Performance of Songs in English Lodges of the 18th Century - see under 'Recent publications and editions, above, for details of the published version of this paper.

Music and the Brotherhood

Discussing music and freemasonry in eighteenth-century London for BBC Radio 4's programme of the same name. Tuesday 7 October, 2003, 1.30pm-2pm.

Men Behaving: the creation of an English masonic song culture, 1723-1734

Research Students' seminar series, Music Department, , Goldsmiths College, University of London, May 2003

2002

The Musical Freemasons of the 'Philo Musicae et Architecturae lodge', London, 1724-1727. A case study of male musical sociability in 18th-century London

Sheffield University, Department of History, October 2002, more ...

Permission and Prohibition; the performance of music by the elite male amateur in 18th-century Britain

Research Students Conference, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Spring 2002

pre-2002

Maurice Durufle (1902-1986): the Requiem, op.9, in the context of the French plainsong tradition at the dawn of Vatican II.

Benjamin Cooke (1734-1793): a window onto Mozart's London.

Benjamin Cooke (1734-1793): his music in context - an overview.

'Litanies a la Vierge Noire' by Francis Poulenc. A reflection on personal grief or the reflection of political neccesity?

'Lost in the Light'. The Cross: a redundant source of inspiration for today's liturgical composers.

'Regarding Death in the Church of England' : Catholic or Protestant experience? Tensions between dogma and practice.

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