Publications
Book Chapters
Gillen, J. & Hall, N. (2010) Any mermaids? Tracing early postcard mobilities. In J. Urry, M. Büscher & K. Witchger (eds) Mobile Methods. pp. 20-35. London: Routledge.
Gillen, J. & Hall, N. (2010) Edwardian postcards: illuminating ordinary writing. In D. Barton & U. Papen (eds) The Anthropology of Writing. (pp. 169-189). Continuum.
Hall, N. & Gillen, J. (2007) Purchasing Pre-packed words: Complaint and Reproach in Early British Postcards in M. Lyons (ed.) Ordinary writing, personal narratives: writing practices in the 19th and early 20th century. Berne, Switzerland: Peter Lang. pp. 101-117.
Refereed Conference Papers
Gillen, J. & Hall, N. (2011) "Hope to see you this evening - Love, Nessie" The Edwardian Picture Postcard as a revolutionary communications phenomenon. Paper presented at Picture This: Postcards and Letters Beyond Text. University of Sussex March 24-26.
Gillen, J. & Hall, N. (2009) The Edwardian postcard: a revolutionary moment in rapid multimodal communications. Paper presented at British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 2-5 September.
Gillen, J. and Hall, N. (2006) Creativity and the Edwardian picture postcard: responses to change in the materiality of literacy. Paper presented at the 28th session of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education:Technologies of the Word: literacies in the history of education. Umea, Sweden, August 16th-19th.
Hall, N. and Gillen, J. (2006) Purchasing pre-packed words: complaint and apology in early British postcards. Paper presented at the 10th conference for the International Society for the Study of European Ideas:The European Mind: Narrative and Identity. Malta, 24th-29th July.
Gillen, J. & Hall, N. (2004) A revolutionary moment in informal, near-synchronous, multimodal writing practices: the Edwardian postcard. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 15: Culture, Contact, Change. University of Newcastle upon Tyne. 1st-4th April.
Invited Presentations
Gillen. J. (2008) The Edwardian postcard: a radical innovation in near-synchronous, multimodal writing practices. Linguistics Colloquium, York St John University. 23rd October.
