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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  • The big screen

    Just 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!

    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…

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  • Local Hero

    The Liverpool Heroes Memorial, Abercromby Square, Liverpool. Image by Bill Sergeant. * One hundred and sixty-nine years ago today, 29th January, Queen Victoria introduced a new military medal to honour acts of conspicuous valour in the Crimean war.…

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