- Descriptive bibliography & historical study of English ‘school pieces’ or writing sheets (c.1650-c.1850)
- Historical study of the teaching of children with pictures in seventeenth- & eighteenth-century Britain in relation to contemporary theories of education & constructions of childhood
- ‘Silvia Cole Reads in Her Book’. A project to annotate & contextualize an illustrated manuscript prepared for an eighteenth-century child & now held by the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books, Toronto Public Library