Dr Alice Little

Dr Alice Little is a Research Fellow at the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, where she is responsible for the Anthony Baines Project, working with the archive and collection of the museum’s first Curator (Anthony Baines, 1912-1997). Her research focuses on topics in the history of music collecting: her past work includes studies of the collectors Percy Manning (1870-1917), who collected musical instruments from around Oxfordshire at the turn of the twentieth century, and John Malchair (1730-1812), who collected ‘national music’ in Oxford in the late eighteenth century.

In addition to being Head of Administration at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Alice is Writer in Residence at Wytham Woods, and Head of Programmes at OCLW's sister organisation Oxford Writing Mentors. She is a tutor in Creative Writing for Exeter College and Lady Margaret Hall. Previously, Alice was a Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, and a Humanities Knowledge Exchange Fellow at TORCH, working with the English Folk Dance and Song Society on eighteenth-century music collections and tunebooks.

You can follow Alice on Twitter at @littleamiss.