Nic Nicholas
Location: Rochester
Membership Grade: Fellow
Contact Info
General Experience
I have been indexing since 2015 and achieved Fellowship status in 2023. Studied history at degree level. Business background including proofreading/copy-editing leaflets and reports. Worked to tight deadlines with budgetary constraints. Happy to consider any commission and available all year round including school holidays. Deadlines are always met.
Subjects
Studied at degree level. Especially interested in cultural, social and local history. Indexes include ‘The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire‘ (Van Loo), ‘España: A Brief History of Spain ‘ (Tremlett), ‘The Medici‘ (Hollingsworth), ‘Blood Royal‘ (Bicheno),’SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History‘ (David), ‘Two Minutes to Midnight: 1953 The Year of Living Dangerously‘ (Hermiston), ‘Soho‘ (Cruickshank).
Studied at degree level. Have produced indexes for museums – both for exhibition books and catalogues. Work includes ‘Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa‘(Porter), ‘The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women’s Portraits‘ (Higgie), ‘John Carter: On Paper‘ (Bann), ‘Art is a Tyrant‘ (Hewitt), ‘Constable and Brighton: Something Out of Nothing‘ (Lancaster), ‘Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960-2020‘ (Beasley et al).
Indexes include ‘A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto‘(Mieville), ‘Lobby Life ‘ (Walker), ‘China Vs America: A Warning‘ (Letwin), ‘Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas‘ (Charbonnier), ‘Inside Russian Politics‘ (Bacon), ‘May at 10‘ (Seldon), ‘The English Job: Understanding Iran and Why It Distrusts Britain‘ (Straw), ‘Beyond a Fringe: Tales from a reformed Establishment lackey ‘ (Mitchell)
Lifelong interest. Indexes include ‘Maradona‘ (Balague), ‘Any Given Sunday: The NFL’s Epic 100-Year History in 20 Games‘ (Sherry), ‘White Hart Lane: The Spurs Glory Years‘ (Lipton), ‘Blood and Circuses‘ (O’Connor), ‘My Life in Red and White‘ (Wenger), ‘FOOTBALL: Designing the Beautiful Game‘ (ed. Watson and Bird)
Indexes include ‘Hawkers, Beggars and Quacks: Portraits from the Cries of London‘ (Shesgreen), ‘Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt’s Roaring ’20s‘ (Cormack), ‘Design and National Identity‘ (Gimeno-Martínez), ‘Encounters Beyond the Gallery‘ (Dohmen), ‘The Husband Hunters‘ (de Courcy), ‘Greece in Crisis‘ (Tziovas), ‘The Colour of Time‘ (Jones and Amaral), ‘Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton‘ (Hoque).
Lifelong interest of mine. Indexes include ‘Crystal Gridwork‘ (Fogg), ‘Hoop Dreams‘(Morgan), ‘The Art of Leather Braiding‘ (Luo & Tong), ‘From Clay to Kiln‘ (Carey & Callender)
Indexes include ‘The New Gender Paradox: Fragmentation and Persistence of the Binary‘(Lorber), ‘Kin, People or Nation: On European Poltical Identities‘ (Neumann), ‘Black is the Journey, Africana the Name‘ (Soumahoro), ‘Media freedom‘ (Tambini)
Indexes include ‘What We Have Lost‘(Hamilton-Paterson),’Science City‘ (Rose and Desborough), ‘Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World‘(Conrad), ‘Agent Jack‘(Hutton), ‘Glasgow 1919‘(MacAskill), ‘Cardiff Castle and the Marquesses of Bute‘(Williams), ,’Orcadia‘ (Edmonds)
Indexes include ‘España: A Brief History of Spain ‘(Tremlett), ‘Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture‘(Murdoch), ‘Caesar’s Footprints‘(Omrani), ‘Francis I‘(Frieda), ‘Versailles‘(Jones), ‘The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire‘ (Van Loo)
A particular passion of mine. Indexes include ‘Barry Island: The Making of a Seaside Playground, c.1790- c.1965‘ (Croll), ‘The Husband Hunters‘ (de Courcy), ‘The Colour of Time ‘ (Amaral and Jones), ‘Nourishing the Nation: Food as Identity in Catalonia‘ (Johannes)
A very important subject in today’s society. Indexes include ‘Proactive Parenting‘ (Saligari), ‘CAT and the Politics of Mental health‘ (Lloyd & Pollard), ‘Mental‘(Ellen and Deveny), ‘Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health‘(Pollard and Lloyd), ‘Dancing with Parkinson’s‘ (Houston)
Really enjoy this subject and indexes have included ‘Styling South Asian Youth Cultures‘ (Dasgupta et al), ‘Silver and Gold‘ (Hartnell), ‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk‘(Jackson)
A personal interest of mine. Titles include: ‘The Villa Wolkonsky in Rome: History of a Hidden Treasure ‘ (Shepherd), ‘Musical Cities: Listening to Urban Design and Planning‘ (Adhitya), ‘Stowe House: Saving an Architectural Masterpiece‘ (Morris), ‘Unreasonable creatures‘(Bette), ‘Between Two Worlds: An Architectural History of Emmanuel College, Cambridge‘ (Musson)
‘A Cook’s Book: The Essential Nigel Slater with over 200 recipes ‘ (Slater), ‘
English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables‘ (Purkiss), ‘Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation ‘ (Loyal)
Other skills
Proofreading
Business background including proofreading/copy-editing leaflets and reports. Work includes 'Italian, Spanish and French Paintings: In the Ringling Museum of Art' (Brilliant), 'The Barber Institute of Fine Arts' (Verdi et al), Dior by Dior (V&A)
Recent indexes include
Schuhmacher, Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections: A research guide, UCL Press, 2024
Hempson-Jones, Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it , William Collins, 2024
Sims, The Fallacies of Racism: Understanding How Common Perceptions Uphold White Supremacy , Polity, 2024
Clients Include
Regular clients include:
British Museum, Design Museum, Hachette, Harper Collins, Lund Humphries, Penguin, Polity Press, Quarto Publishing, Scala Publishing, V& A, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Yale University Press. Plus individual authors, universities and small publishing houses.
Special Publication Type
Indexes include ‘Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill‘ (Adonis), ‘Ian McKellen: The Biography‘ (O’Connor), ‘Harold Wilson: The Winner ‘ (Thomas-Symonds), ‘Behold the Dark Gray Man: The Controversial Life of Sholto Douglas‘ (Campbell), ‘Who’s In, Who’s Out‘(Rose), ‘Let’s Do it: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood ‘ (Rees), ‘<emConstable: A Portrait‘ (Hamilton),’My Life in Red and White‘ (Wenger)
Indexes include ‘Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume 8: Rise and Fall of the Olympic Spirit, 2010-2015‘(Campbell), ‘Jane Austen: The Chawton Letters‘ (Sutherland), ‘The Diaries of Bernard Ingham‘ (Ingham), ‘The Diaries & Letters of Olive Garnett‘ (ed. Johnson)
I have indexed many publications to accompany museum exhibitions including ‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk‘ (Jackson), ‘Constable and Brighton: Something Out of Nothing‘ (Lancaster), ‘Fashioning Masculinities‘(ed. McKever & Wilcox), ‘The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence‘ (ed. Stronge), ‘Tropical Modernism ‘ (Turner), ‘Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser ‘ (Bailey/Sladen), ‘Renaissance Watercolours‘ (Evans and Pieragostini)
Tools
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