Naomi Daw

I have written about arts, culture, history and heritage for a variety of publications.

From photographs of Land Girls in local museum collections and stereoscopic photography to archival photographs of the oldest aquarium in Europe and eighteenth century stirrup cups… my writing focusses on heritage, popular culture, and the arts from c1800 to the 1950s.

Kitchen Waste campaign at Royal Pavilion, 1942
Published works

Naomi Daw (2011), ‘Luke Jerram’s Glass Microbiology’. Excursions, 2 (1). Available here.

Naomi Daw (2017), ‘From the inside looking out: travelling the world from the parlour’. In: Barrios Aquino, Marianela, Campillo-Funollet, Eduard, Daw, Naomi, Jha, Ketan, Logan Miller, Myles, Neale, Alexa and Ottway, Tom (eds.) Beyond the boundaries of home: interdisciplinary approaches. University of Sussex Library, Brighton, UK, pp. 73-87. Available here.

Naomi Daw (2020), ‘Eighteenth Century Architectural Styles at Preston Manor’, Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust blog, here.

Naomi Daw (2021), ‘The ‘Cinderella Service’: Photographs of the Women’s Land Army’, Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust blog, here.

Naomi Daw (2021), ‘Remembering the hard work of the “Cinderella Service”’, Brighton and Hove Independent, pp. 48-9. View here.

Naomi Daw (2021), ‘Remembering Hanningtons, aka the “Harrods of Brighton”’, Brighton and Hove Independent, pp. 46-7. View here.

Naomi Daw (2021), ‘Hanningtons: ‘Famed for Richness of Quality, Undoubted Reliability and Moderate Prices’, Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust blog, here.

Naomi Daw (2021), ‘The Parting Starts After Eight: a Stirrup Cup in the Willett Collection of Popular Pottery’, Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust blog, here.

Naomi Daw (2022), ‘The story of Royal Pavilion’s “Indian Memorial Gateway”’, Brighton and Hove Independent, pp. 46-7. View here.

Naomi Daw (2022), ‘Taking a “deep-dive” into the history of Brighton Aquarium’, Brighton and Hove Independent, pp. 38-9. View here.

Forthcoming publications

I am currently writing a number of articles for publication on various aspects of popular and visual culture in the ‘long’ nineteenth century (c1789-1914). Further details will be announced soon.