Dr Matthew Roberts BA PhD FHEA FRHistS
I am an historian of nineteenth-century Britain and the British Atlantic World, and currently Associate Professor in Modern British History at Sheffield Hallam University. On this website you'll mostly find information about my research, publications and public engagement.
In 2020-21, I am also Barra International Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia in the USA, where I'll be working on William Cobbett's papers.
Please do get in touch if you have any questions relating to my areas of research. My contact details are under the 'More' tab above.
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UPCOMING/RECENT EVENTS
Archaeology in the City, online talk
'A People's History of Sheffield from the French Revolution to Chartism'
23 November 2021, 18:00
'The Politics of Feeling in the Transatlantic Age of Reason, c.1776-1800'
online talk
Library Company of Philadelphia
21 January 2022, 17:30 (EST, 10:30pm GMT)
MY LATEST RESEARCH
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My new book, Democratic Passions, has just been published by Manchester University Press. Click here for the publisher's website.
My latest article, 'Women and Late Chartism: Women's Rights in Mid-Victorian England' was published in the latest issue of English Historical Review. Click here for a free copy of the article (which was published under open access).
My previous book is now out in paperback. Click here to be taken to the publisher's website. Reviews have appeared in Labour History Review, Social History, and Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle