Art History

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

Art and the Country House

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

British Art Studies

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

Continuity and Change

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

Cultural and Social History

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.

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

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

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.

Journal of British Studies

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

Journal of Design History

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.

London Review of Books

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

The British Art Journal

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.

The Burlington Magazine

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

The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century

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

The Historical Journal

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.

Visual Culture in Britain

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.