PhD from Queen Mary, University of London (2009), MA also from Queen Mary (2005), BA in History and Politics from University of Nottingham (2003). Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (admitted 2015).
Published widely on British political culture in the 'long' nineteenth century (1780-1914) including in English Historical Review, Historical Research, Parliamentary History and Cultural and Social History. Contributed over 200 biographies and constituencies histories to the History of Parliament's 1832-1868 House of Commons project.
My first book, Politics Personified: Portraiture, Caricature and Visual Culture in Britain, 1830-1880 was published by Manchester University Press in 2015.
I am currently writing a history of petitioning in Britain, 1780-1918.
Experience
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–presentSenior Research Fellow, Leverhulme Trust Rethinking Petitions project, Durham University
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2013–2016Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British History, University of Manchester
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2009–2013Research Fellow, House of Commons, 1832-1868 project, History of Parliament Trust
Education
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2009University of London, PhD History
Grants and Contracts
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2016Rethinking Petitions, People and Parliament in the Long Nineteenth Century (1780-1918)
- Role:
- Project Co-ordinator and Senior Research Fellow (and co-author of grant proposal)
- Funding Source:
- Leverhulme Trust
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