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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The end of the beginning…
Read more: 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
Read more: The big screenJust 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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A Prickly character!
Read more: A Prickly character!It’s not unusual to see facsimile newspapers as props in period dramas, both on television and in film. Quite often, these don’t make any serious attempt to emulate the form taken by papers of the relevant era. This…