Nicola King, BA (Hons), MPhil
Location: NEWPORT PAGNELL
Membership Grade: Fellow
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General Experience
I work mostly on books about archaeology and history, and on memoirs and general academic books, and I am happy to consider other subject areas and types of books, including trade books. Editors, authors and providers of publishing services are among my clients, as well as traditional publishers and self-publishing authors.
I studied archaeology at undergraduate and post-graduate levels, worked as an archaeological project manager and finds supervisor, and attained the Associate grade (AIFA) membership of the Institute for Archaeologists. I have also worked in the areas of domestic energy efficiency policy and testing and trialling consumer products for Which? magazine.
I am available all year, including over the summer and other school holidays.
You can follow me on BlueSky @nicolaking.bsky.social, Twitter @icemaiden1964 and my website includes more information about the 275+ books I have indexed.
Subjects
Ex-professional field archaeologist, AIFA, with project management and finds expertise.
Publishers of books I have indexed include: British Museum, Cambridge University McDonald Institute, Cotswold Archaeology, East Anglian Archaeology, Equinox, Historic England, Oxbow, Prehistoric Society, Routledge, Royal Collection Trust, Sidestone,
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Society for Medieval Archaeology, Thames & Hudson, and Wessex Archaeology.
Book types include academic studies, annual journals, collections of papers, excavation reports, exhibition books, and covered a range of locations and periods from neolithic Stonehenge and Beaker people in Britain, via Hadrian’s Wall and medieval Europe to Jordan and Orkney. A full list can be found on my blog.
The contemporary art scene has featured in a number of titles I have indexed. They include a consideration of contemporary theory, practice and instruction, art exhibited at the Freud Museums and what happens when artists don’t use their real names.
I have stepped back in time a little to work on a few books on members of the Bauhaus, including artists and craftspeople , the designers Herbert Bayer and Richard Riemerschmid and some of the more irrational and unconventional aspects.
A list of art, art history and Art Theory titles can be found on my blog.
A keen home baker who also enjoys indexing cookery books. Indexes include Deep South by Brad McDonald and Tanya Bakes by Tanya Burr.
I have indexed a range of academic and general interest books including subjects as diverse as the Battle of Britain, race horses, WWI – Americans serving in British forces, Medieval hermitages, and railwaymen. Books have included Churchill’s role in the creation of a united Europe and the role of the British in German education after World War II.
Earlier in my indexing career I indexed a number of works in English about the history of Spain and Spanish speaking countries. More recently I indexed Saint-Simon in Spain and a book on Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velazquez.
A list of all history books can be found on my blog.
An interesting glimpse of early English gardens is to be found in The Ornamental Wilderness. I indexed an illustrated book during the tercentenary year for Capability Brown. In 2017 I indexed the memoir of landscape architect Hal Moggridge.
Local organisations and groups I have worked with include Ramsbury in Wiltshire and Beaulieu in Hampshire.
A recent eyeopener was Out for Blood, the history of the musical Carrie. At the end of 2018 I was happy to revisit some of the music of my younger days indexing a book about the Northern Soul scene.
Related qualifications
MPhil European Archaeology, Oxford University
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Other skills
Recent indexes include
Brenard, Claire, Visions of War: Art of the Imperial War Museums, Imperial War Museum, 2023
Broderick, Mosette , Fifth Avenue, Unicorn Press, 2023
Glomski, Jacqueline and Robyn Adams eds, Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems and Perspectives, Brill, 2023
Guarino, Paolo and Alistair J. Barclay, In the Shadow of Segsbury: The Archaeology of the H380 Childrey Warren, Cotswold Archaeology, 2023
Jones, Andy M. and Michael J. Allen, eds., The Drowning of a Cornish Prehistoric Landscape: Tradition, Deposition and Social Responses to Sea Level Rise, Prehistoric Society/Oxbow, 2023
Osgood, Richard , Broken Pots, Mending Lives: The Archaeology of Operation Nightingale, Oxbow, 2023
Scott, Beccy , Andrew Shaw, Katherine Scott & Matt Pope, Repeopling La Manche, Oxbow, 2023
Whatley, Christopher A. and Joanna Hambly eds, Salt: Scotland’s Newest Oldest Industry, Birlinn, 2023
Clients Include
In 2022 and 2023 I worked on books published by:
Birlinn
Bloomsbury Academic
Brill
British Museum
Cotswold Archaeology
Equinox
I B Tauris
Imperial War Museum
Manchester University Press
MIT Press
Oxbow
Prehistoric Society
Royal Collection Trust
Schwabe
Sidestone
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Thames & Hudson
Unicorn Press
Wessex Archaeology
Yale University Press
Special Publication Type
I have indexed over 20 books of biography, family history and memoir of people from a range of walks of life. All are listed on my blog .
I have indexed a number of books to accompany exhibitions by the British Museum and The Royal Collection Trust.
For the British Museum:
Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
Legion: Life in the Roman Army
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
Pharaoh: art and power in ancient Egypt
Stonehenge
For the Royal Collection Trust:
Holbein at the Tudor Court
Style and Society: Dressing the Georgians
Tools
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