Bridget Houlton

Location: Herefordshire

Membership Grade: Professional Member

Contact Info

General Experience

I specialise in indexing arts and humanities subjects, including English literature, history, art history and visual arts. 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 University of London and at the British Museum, 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, sometimes at short notice.

Subjects

English Literature

First degree in English and experience of indexing works on literature.

History (All Areas)

Including ancient history, social history and local history.

Art History

Experience of working with art history material across a wide range of historical periods.

Art and Design

Experience in this area, particularly with drawing and printmaking techniques.

English (Works About)

Experience of indexing material on the subject of the English language. Interested in the history of the English language and in English usage.

Social Sciences (All Areas)

Experience of indexing social science material in areas including criminology, cultural studies and sustainability studies.

Related qualifications

MA Librarianship (University of Sheffield)
BA (Hons) English (University of Cambridge)
A Level Latin and Ancient Greek


Other skills

Cataloguing And Classification
Experience as a library cataloguer, using MARC and a variety of classification schemes.

Recent indexes include

Zarghamee, Reza Shaghaghi, Myth and History in Ancient Persia: The Achaemenids in the Iranian Tradition, Edinburgh University Press, 2025
Mulhaire, Ronan, Irish Kingship in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Approaches to the Study of Power, Routledge, 2025
Singh, Greg, Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised, Routledge, 2025
Holly, Michael Ann, Somewhere Between Art History and Phenomenology: At the Still Point of the Painted World, Edinburgh University Press, 2025
Chauhan, Vishal, Dalit Representation in Popular Hindi Cinema, Routledge, 2025
Ormrod, Richard, In Defence of the Realm: The Poetry of World Wars I & II: A Critical Study, The Conrad Press, 2025
Spina, Francesca, ed., The Routledge Companion to Gender and Crime, Routledge, 2025
Bao, Weimin, The Cities of Song China I-II, Routledge, 2025
Gilchrist, Paul, Hansen, Peter and Westaway, Jonathan, eds., Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds, Manchester University Press, 2024
Elbousty, Jonas and Allen, Roger, eds., Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives: Hunger in Eden, Routledge, 2024

Tools

CINDEX
INDEX MANAGER