Projects
A list of the work currently in progress and the work recently closed. Each project has its own page with the editorial notes that go with it.
In progress
Closed
10.2025 — 02.2026 · Research support · Grenada · LondonPenn-Spence estate ledger reconstructionReconstruction of an estate ledger sequence from a damaged binder, working back from the surviving year-ends into the missing intermediate quarters.
06.2025 — 12.2025 · Edition · Eastern CaribbeanManumission registers, eastern Caribbean, 1820–1834Editorial pass over manumission register transcripts from three small island archives, normalising the apparatus without normalising the names.
04.2024 — 11.2024 · Catalogue · Tobago · AucklandTobago family folder · catalogue and editorial notesCatalogue and short editorial notes for a single family folder containing letters, two ledger fragments, and a long inventory marginalia sequence.
01.2025 — 09.2025 · Publication · AucklandOn not making it neat — research method notesA short methods pamphlet on keeping uncertainty visible in estate research. Eighty pages, plain cover, intended for working researchers and family editors.
09.2023 — 06.2024 · Research support · GrenadaSugar estate inventory recovery, GrenadaRecovery and editorial reading of a single sugar estate inventory series for a researcher who could not read the hand of the later years.