2003

Retford, Kate (2003) Reynolds's portrait of Mrs Theresa Parker: a case study in context. The British Art Journal 4 (3), pp. 80-86. ISSN 1467-2006.

September 2003

Retford, Kate (2003) Sensibility and genealogy in the Eighteenth-Century family portrait: the collection at Kedleston Hall. The Historical Journal 46 (3), pp. 533-560. ISSN 0018-246X.

March 2004

Retford, Kate (2004) Gender and the marital portrait in Eighteenth-Century England: ‘A Sort of Sex in Souls’. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 27 (1), pp. 99-120. ISSN 17540194.

15 August 2006

Retford, Kate (2006) The art of domestic life: family portraiture in Eighteenth-Century England. Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. ISBN 9780300110012.

2007

Retford, Kate (2007) From the interior to interiority: the conversation piece in Georgian England. Journal of Design History 20 (4), pp. 291-307. ISSN 1741-7279.

4 January 2007

Ackroyd, M. and Brockliss, L. and Moss, M. and Retford, Kate and Stevenson, J., eds. (2007) Advancing with the army: medicine, the professions and social mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199267064.

28 February 2007

Retford, Kate (2007) Patrilineal portraiture? Gender and genealogy in the Eighteenth-Century country house. In: Styles, J. and Vickery, A. (eds.) Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830. New Haven, U.S.: Yale University Press for Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, pp. 323-352. ISBN 9780300116595.

2010

Retford, Kate (2010) A death in the family: posthumous portraiture in eighteenth-century England. Art History 33 (1), pp. 74-97. ISSN 0141-6790.

December 2010

Retford, Kate (2010) The evidence of the conversation piece: Thomas Bardwell's The Broke and Bowes Families (1740). Cultural and Social History 7 (4), pp. 493-510. ISSN 1478-0038.

6 December 2011

Retford, Kate (2011) "Peculiarly happy at taking likenesses": Zoffany & British portraiture. In: Postle, M. (ed.) Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed. Yale, U.S.: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300176049.

2013

Retford, Kate (2013) "Johan Zoffany: 1733-1810" by Mary Webster. [Book Review]

21 February 2013

Retford, Kate (2013) "The Crown and Glory of a Woman": female chastity in Eighteenth‐Century British art. In: Arnold, D. and Peters Corbett, D. (eds.) A Companion to British Art: 1600 to the Present. Wiley, pp. 473-501. ISBN 9781405136297.

October 2013

Retford, Kate (2013) Placing faces: the portrait and the English country house in the long Eighteenth Century. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719090394.

Retford, Kate (2013) The topography of the conversation piece: a walk around Wanstead. In: Retford, Kate (ed.) Placing Faces: The Portrait and the English Country House in the Long Eighteenth Century. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719090394.

2014

Retford, Kate (2014) ‘The small Domestic & conversation style’: David Allan and Scottish portraiture in the Late Eighteenth Century. Visual Culture in Britain 15 (1), pp. 1-27. ISSN 1471-4787.

June 2014

Retford, Kate (2014) Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain. [Book Review]

December 2016

Retford, Kate (2016) Philippe Ariès’s ‘Discovery of Childhood’: imagery and historical evidence. Continuity and Change 31 (3), pp. 391-418. ISSN 0268-4160.

24 October 2017

Retford, Kate (2017) The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in 18th-Century Britain. Yale Books. ISBN 9780300194807.

January 2018

Retford, Kate (2018) Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery. Consumption and the Country House. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. [Book Review]

31 May 2018

Retford, Kate (2018) 1775: Nathaniel Hone's Spartan Boy "Concealing a Theft". The Royal Academy, London, UK.

Retford, Kate (2018) 1798: An upturn in the career of William Beechey. The Royal Academy, London, UK.

September 2018

Retford, Kate and McMullan, G. and Barnden, S. and Tambling, Kirsten (2018) Making history: Shakespeare and the Royal Family. [Show/Exhibition]

7 March 2019

Retford, Kate and Avery-Quash, S. (2019) The Georgian London town house: building, collecting and display. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781501337314.

20 November 2020

Retford, Kate (2020) ‘A family home and not … a museum’: living with the Country House Art Collection. Art and the Country House ,

3 December 2020

Retford, Kate (2020) Antique tears. [Book Review]

2022

Retford, Kate (2022) Conversation piece. The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century , ISSN 2803-2845.

1 August 2022

Retford, Kate and McMullan, G. and Barnden, S. and Tambling, Kirsten, eds. (2022) Finding Shakespeare in the Royal Collection. Oxford University Press. (Submitted)

16 December 2022

Retford, Kate (2022) Des images parlantes: la sociabilité dans les conversation pieces du XVIIIe britannique [Talking pictures: sociability in the Eighteenth-Century British conversation piece]. In: Alayrac-Fielding, V. and Mesplède, S. (eds.) Les Réseaux de sociabilité dans la culture des Lumières : Circulations, échanges et transferts. Transversales VIII. Paris, France: Le Manuscrit. ISBN 9782304053531.

2023

Retford, Kate (2023) Representing luxury: objects and their adjectives. In: Stobart, J. and Berry, C. (eds.) A Cultural History of Luxury: The Eighteenth Century. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. (Submitted)

Retford, Kate (2023) “A Wild and Unruly Youth": Princes of Wales and The Harry the Fifth Club. In: Retford, Kate and McMullan, G. and Barnden, S. and Tambling, Kirsten (eds.) Finding Shakespeare in the Royal Collection. London, UK: Oxford University Press. (Submitted)

1 February 2023

Retford, Kate (2023) Houses and homes. In: Coutu, J. and Stobart, J. and Nelson Lindfield, P. (eds.) Politics and the British Country House, 1688-1800. London, UK: McGill-Queen’s University Press. ISBN 9780228014027. (In Press)

31 March 2023

Retford, Kate (2023) Cutting and pasting: The Print Room at Woodhall Park, Hertfordshire. British Art Studies (24), ISSN 2058-5462.