Personal Details
Title | Ms |
Name | Sheila Corr |
Location | London and South East |
Media | Magazines, Books, Multimedia, TV and Video, Any |
Speciality | Architecture, Art, Cinema & TV, Music, Theatre, Celebrities / Portraits, Current Issues / Social Documentary / News, History, Industry & Commerce, People & Culture / Lifestyle, Science & Technology, Medicine, Sport, Transport, Travel, Geography & Culture |
Work Experience | History of nearly everything from the earliest times to the most recent, especially skilled in the obscure and elusive. Over 40 years picture editing and research, the last 15 as picture editor at History Today. I delight in capturing the mood of a particular time and place through detailed visual and factual research online and elsewhere, and locating unfamiliar contemporary material in museums, archives and libraries. |
Clients | History Today, British Museum Press, Soho Theatre, University of Brighton, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Academy, Transworld Publishers, Time-Life Books, New Scientist, Granada Television, McGraw-Hill New York, The Tatler, Nuffield-Chelsea Curriculum Trust, Telegraph Magazine, Hamlyn Publishing Group etc. |
Qualifications | B.A. (English, French, Philosophy) Trinity College, Dublin |
Languages Spoken | French |
Other Skills | Editing in Quark and InDesign, writing captions, blog and reviews, commissioning map artwork. Speaking at Semantic Image Retrieval Conference, teaching a picture research course at British Museum Press, exhibition research for Royal Festival Hall and Commonwealth Institute. |
Public Contact Details | Email: sravenscroft@btinternet.com |