Bridget Houlton
Location: Oxfordshire
Membership Grade: Professional Member
Contact Info
General Experience
I specialise in indexing arts and humanities subjects, including English literature, history, art history, visual arts and classical studies. I also have experience of indexing social science subjects and am happy to index a broad range of subjects aimed at a general readership.
Before becoming a professional indexer I worked as a library cataloguer at the British Museum and at the University of London, cataloguing subjects including art history, literature, social history, ancient history and archaeology. I have a BA in English and an MA in Librarianship.
I am available for indexing work throughout the year, often at short notice.
Subjects
First degree in English.
Experience of working with art history texts across a wide range of historical periods.
Including ancient history, social history and local history.
Experience of working with texts relating to ancient Greece and Rome. A Level qualifications in Latin and Ancient Greek.
I have experience of indexing material relating to the heritage sector and have an ongoing interest in this area.
Experience of indexing general readership material about the English language. Interested in the history of the English language and in English usage.
I have a postgraduate degree in Librarianship and a background in information management.
Personal interest particularly in drawing and printmaking.
Experience of indexing material across a variety of musical genres.
Experience of indexing social science material in areas including criminology, cultural studies and sustainability studies.
Related qualifications
MA Librarianship (University of Sheffield)
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Other skills
Cataloguing And Classification
20 years of experience as a library cataloguer, using MARC and a variety of classification schemes.
Recent indexes include
Adamou, Natasha, and Giebelhausen, Michaela, eds., Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions, Routledge, 2023
The Kennel Club, The Kennel Club Year Book 2023/2024, The Kennel Club, 2023
Feng, Dezheng (William) , Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China, Routledge, 2023
Ballinger, Lizzie, Trish Arnold: The Legacy of Her Movement Training for Actors, Bloomsbury, 2023
Nowak, Andrzej , The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920: Lloyd-George, Lenin and Poland, Routledge, 2023
Censi, Martina, and Paniconi, Maria Elena, eds., The Migrant in Arab Literature: Displacement, Self-Discovery and Nostalgia, Routledge, 2022
O'Brien, Melanie, From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens, Routledge, 2022
Stapleton, Timothy, ed., African Navies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge, 2022
Ekserdjian, David, et al., Raphael, Yale University Press, 2022
Special Publication Type
Tools
CINDEX
INDEX MANAGER