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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  • A wake-up call for the English Language

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=bugle&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image I was doing some work recently on a Victorian newspaper with an undeniably laudable social purpose. It was called the Fonetic Nuz (Phonetic News) and appeared in January 1849. It was the brainchild of one Alexander Ellis…

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  • Song of the Nightingale

    TO FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Lady! in our England’s story There are names we proudly say – Names of women writ in Heaven, With us still, and passed away; But in all the shining record Which the angels love to…

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  • Cold comfort

    I’m currently suffering with my first cold of the year. It has hit me quite hard. I think one of the unfortunate consequences of the necessary arrangements made during the Covid-19 pandemic is that many including me, by…

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