MATTHEW STEPHENS

I’m a PhD student at Edge Hill University and the British Library, working under:

Dr Bob Nicholson, Reader in Public History and Digital Humanities, Edge Hill University

Dr Andrew McInnes, Reader in Romanticisms, Edge Hill University

Dr Beth Gaskell, Lead Curator, News and Moving Image, British Library

Dr Mia Ridge, Digital Curator, Western Heritage Collections, British Library

You can find me on X, LinkedIn (links below)and Bluesky Social, where I’m also known as Nineteenth-century Newshound.

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I’m always happy to hear from anyone with an interest in my research, so do please put quill to parchment.

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  • Speaking volumes

    This is a ‘before and after’ comparison of two of my three original (1858-60) volumes of the Illustrated News of the World. You’ll see that, for the most damaged volume, it was necessary to have an entirely new…

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  • The end of the beginning…

    It has been a momentous week for me. Four years on from starting my PhD, my thesis has been submitted for examination. What a journey it has been to reach this point. My higher education began at Newcastle…

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  • The big screen

    Just over a week ago, I returned from Chicago, USA, where I had the great pleasure of attending the annual conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RA4VP) at Loyola University. The theme of this year’s gathering…

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