Thank you so much. Was a real labour of love. And pretty much took me a year longer than I anticipated!!

This turned into a mammoth task as loot is an extremely popular topic. A few times I had to pause my writing to read a new book or article, and even now I've seen James Hevia has new book out soon. Oh well, I had to say 'when' at somepoint.

As I read more and more across the literature I saw the need for a historiographical review to not only outline the developments of a burgeoning field and point out gaps, but to flesh out the history of loot and looting, identifying patterns and change over time from what's already been written.

There's loads written, but its mostly in silos. Scholars have looked at looting in specific military campaigns but rarely zoomed out to analyse loot and looting across the century. This, I think, is mostly due to art historians bringing their expertise to certain objects.

Proud of this one - my new article in The Historical Journal is out on first view. It's a historiographical review of the literature on British colonial spoils, or 'loot'.