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 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
First degree in English and experience of indexing works on literature.
Including ancient history, social history and local history.
Experience of working with texts relating to ancient Greece and Rome. Knowledge of Latin and Ancient Greek.
Experience of working with art history material across a wide range of historical periods.
Experience in this area, particularly with drawing and printmaking techniques.
Experience of indexing material on the subject of the English language. Interested in the history of the English language and in English usage.
I have experience of indexing material relating to the heritage sector and have an ongoing interest in this area.
Experience of indexing social science material in areas including criminology, cultural studies and sustainability studies.
Related qualifications
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
Moreno, Eduardo Sánchez and Riaza, Enrique García, The Materiality of Diplomacy in the Hellenistic-Roman Mediterranean: Gifts, Bribes, Offerings, Edinburgh University Press, 2024
Elbousty, Jonas and Allen, Roger, eds., Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives: Hunger in Eden, Routledge, 2024
Spicer, Tim, A Suspicion of Spies: Risk, Secrets and Shadows – the Biography of Wilfred ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale, Barbreck, 2024
Ogle, Lizzie, Rhythm, Ancestrality and Spirit in Maracatu de Nação and Candomblé: Repercussions, Routledge, 2024
Mullen, Alex, ed., Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West, Oxford University Press, 2023
Rivera-Clonch, Michelle, A Depth Psychological Study of the Peace Symbol: Jung, Politics, and Culture, Routledge, 2024
Mainali, Raunak and Bhattarai, Prakash, eds., Nepal’s Peace Process: Issues and Challenges, Routledge, 2024
Adamou, Natasha, and Giebelhausen, Michaela, eds., Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions, Routledge, 2023
O’Neill, James Calum, The Allegory of Love in the Early Renaissance: Francesco Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and its European Context, Routledge, 2023
Tools
CINDEX
INDEX MANAGER
