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Dr MATTHEW STEPHENS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’m currently a freelance historian, researcher and lecturer and happy to consider opportunities for work in the field. From 2021-25, I was an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD student at Edge Hill University and the British Library, working under:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Bob Nicholson, Reader in Public History and Digital Humanities, Edge Hill University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Andrew McInnes, Reader in Romanticisms, Edge Hill University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Beth Gaskell, Lead Curator, News and Moving Image, British Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Mia Ridge, Digital Curator, Western Heritage Collections, British Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find me on LinkedIn<\/a> and Bluesky Social<\/a>, where I’m also known as Nineteenth-century Newshound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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