Copsewood Editorial Services Ltd

Copsewood Editorial Services Ltd offers editorial consultancy to the tourism, museum and heritage sectors.

With over twenty years of experience in the publishing and allied sectors, the company provides editing, proofreading and writing services, with particular expertise in the following kinds of publications:

• guidebooks
• marketing materials
• reports
• brochures
• newsletters
• webapp text
• online self-guided tours.

It is also a longstanding Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading.

Regularly commissioned by one of the UK's best-known guidebook publishers – Jarrold Publishing – Copsewood Editorial has been involved in editing, proofreading and writing guidebooks for the following museums and visitor attractions, some in collaboration with the Churches Conservation Trust:

• Ulster Folk Museum
• Fashion and Textile Museum, London 
• Alnwick Castle, Alnwick           
• Caerhays Castle, St Austell           
• American Museum and Gardens, Bath             
• Colchester Castle Museum             
• Preston Park Museum             
• Harlaxton Manor, Grantham      
• Silo Museum and Art Gallery, Copenhagen       
• St Mary's Church, Nottingham             
• Holkham Hall, Norfolk
• Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford     
• St Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich   
• St Mary’s, Chartham, Kent
• St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury             
• St Lawrence's Church, Evesham             
• Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York             
• St John on the Wall, Bristol             
• All Saints, Cambridge             
• St Peter's, Sandwich

Other clients have included:

• Lord Kerry, Bowood House, Wiltshire – editing the visitor guidebook and exhibition text      
• Holy Trinity Church, Coventry and Medieval Coventry charity – editing and proofreading panel text for the church's Doom Painting exhibition
• Medieval Coventry charity – project lead for 'Coventry’s Medieval Treasures', a self-guided digital tour of the city. The tour was the winner of the Alan Ball Award 2022 for Outstanding Local History E-Publication – see https://medievalcoventry.co.uk/medieval-treasures/
• Coventry City of Culture Trust/The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Medieval Coventry charity – editing and proofreading panel text and exhibition leaflet for the 'Royal Women of Influence in Medieval Coventry' exhibition, 2018
• Yale University Press – editing The Gift Tradition in Islamic Art, a catalogue which accompanied an exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, 2012
• Chedham’s Yard, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire – editing the museum’s website
• Coventry City of Culture Trust – editing and proofreading This is Coventry: A Book of Trails
• Professor Alice Kettle and Jane McKeating – editing the book, Hand Stitch Perspectives, which draws upon gallery collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester