PUBLICATIONS
Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison, ‘Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (2025), Published online 2025:1-31. doi:10.1017/S0080440125100418.
Alana Harris and David Uzzell, ‘Out of Sight, Out of Place? Rhetorical Space, Place Identity, and the Asylum Cemetery as an Affective Site for Everyday Heritage’, International Journal for Heritage Studies (under review);
Alana Harris, ‘Us and Them: Repurposing Asylum Photography in Disability Activism’, King’s Innovation and Enterprise, King’s College London, (2024)
MEDIA
Emily Coady-Stemp, ‘Grandad is one of 9,000 buried in derelict site’, BBC News, 6 October 2025 (quoted);
Emily Coady-Stemp, ‘Calls for Public Ownership of Asylum Cemetery’, BBC News, 27 July 2025 (quoted);
‘Remembering Horton’s Forgotten Residents’, BBC Radio Surrey, 10 October 2023 (interview);
‘Memories in Bloom’, Once Upon a Town, October 2023;
‘Our Past Made Present’, Once Upon a Town, May 2023.
AWARDS and FUNDING
National Lottery Heritage Grant, ‘Us and Them’, Freewheelers Theatre and Media Ltd, £132,704 (2 July 2025) - historical consultant
King’s Engaged Researcher Award, Participatory Research: Local, ‘Us and Them’ (16 January 2025)
King’s Engaged Researcher Award, Participatory Research: Local, ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A Memorial Garden for Horton Cemetery’ (16 January 2024).
Historic England, ‘Everyday Heritage’ Award, Project 8672, ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Revisioning the Life Histories of Mental Health Patients within the UK’s Largest Asylum Cemetery’, £11,206.00 (May 2022) - historical consultant.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
‘Doing History in Public Places: Lessons from a Historic England Project on Europe’s Largest Psychiatric Cemetery, in Surrey’, Historical Association West Surrey, 10 December 2024;
‘History Matters: Picturing the Past’, Australian Centre for Gold Rush Collections, Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 11 July 2024.