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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What’s in a Name?
Read more: What’s in a Name?Identity is, simultaneously, the simplest and most slippery of concepts. The impassioned debates today pitting the determinism of biological sex against the (arguably) social construct of gender identity is simply the latest iteration of age-old tensions between individuals…
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Flower of Scotland
Read more: Flower of ScotlandIt was on the final day of the RSVP conference – Saturday 15th June – in Stirling that I noticed this magnificent collection of thistles. It seemed an appropriate visual image for a place so associated with William…
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Bridging a gap
Read more: Bridging a gapWhat is it that links people as disparate as footballers Duncan Ferguson and Billy Bremner*; King James VI of Scotland and I of England#; jockey Willie Carson*; journalist Kirsty Young § and former Liberal Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman≠?…