Dr Matthew Roberts BA PhD FHEA FRHistS

I am an historian of nineteenth-century Britain and the British Atlantic World, and currently Associate Professor (Reader) of Modern British History at Sheffield Hallam University. On this website you'll mostly find information about my research, publications and public engagement.

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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. 

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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.

Thanks for looking at my site.

UPCOMING/RECENT EVENTS

Institute of Historical Research

'Romantic Memory? Forgetting, Remembering and Feeling in the Chartist Pantheon of Heroes'

19 January 2021, 17:15

Working Class Movement's Library

'Remembering Chartism, 1918-2020'

24 February 2021, 2pm 

MY LATEST RESEARCH

My latest book was published by Routledge in 2020. A paperback edition was published in March 2021. Click here to be taken to the publisher's webpage.

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The Legacy of Thomas Paine in the Transatlantic World (Routledge, 2018), is now available in paperback. Click here to taken to the publisher's webpage

My latest article - my first on the history of emotions - has just been published in the journal Victorian Studies. 

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An Impassioned Royal Scandal, looks at the Queen Caroline affair of 1820 from the perspective of the history of emotions. 

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