Matthew Roberts BA, PhD, FRHistS
Associate Professor in Modern British History
Summary
I am an historian of nineteenth-century Britain and the British Atlantic World, and currently Associate Professor (Reader) in Modern British History. I have taught at Hallam since 2005.
About
I work mainly on nineteenth-century British political and cultural history, with research specialisms in the history of popular politics and protest, the visual and material culture of politics, and the history of emotions. I remain passionate about nineteenth-century Britain, and believe that we still have much to learn about this fascinating period. Whether it's the Luddites, the Chartists, or the lives of artisans and millworkers - groups at the centre of my research - it is important that we as historians continue to research and reflect on these topics and communicate our findings to a wide range of audiences.
Specialist areas of interest
Political and social history of modern Britain; radical politics and protest.
Popular radicalism and protest politics, especially Luddism and Chartism, and parliamentary reform
How perspectives and methodologies drawn from visual and material culture can be used to cast new light on established areas of historical enquiry like parliamentary reform and protest
Teaching
Sheffield Creative Industries Institute
College of Social Sciences and Arts
History
BA History
Revolutions in the Atlantic World; Communicating History; Chartism
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- Culture and Creativity 香蕉视频 Institute
Publications
Journal articles
Roberts, M. (2025). . Revue fran莽aise de civilisation britannique, XXX-1.
Roberts, M. (2023). . Midland History.
Roberts, M. (2023). . Historical 香蕉视频.
Roberts, M. (2022). Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular politicians in the age of reform, 1810鈥67. Social History, 47 (2), 226-228.
Roberts, M. (2021). . The English Historical Review, 136 (581), 918-949.
Roberts, M. (2021). . Labour History: a journal of labour and social history, 86 (2), 187-214.
Roberts, M. (2021). . Victorian Studies, 63 (1), 34-56.
Roberts, M. (2019). Popular Virtue: Continuity and Change in Radical Moral Politics, 1820-70. LABOUR HISTORY REVIEW, 84 (1), 85-87.
Roberts, M. (2019). Politics, Performance and Popular Culture: Theatre and Society in Nineteenth鈥怌entury Britain. Edited by PeterYeandle, KatherineNewey and JeffreyRichards. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2016. xiv, 279 pp. 拢75.00. ISBN 9780719091698. Parliamentary History, 38 (2), 299-301.
Roberts, M. (2018). 1867-8: Tradition and Innovation in British Politics. Modern History Review, 21 (2).
Roberts, M. (2018). . Parliamentary History, 37 (2), 250-273.
Roberts, M. (2018). . The Journal of Modern History, 90 (1), 1-39.
Roberts, M. (2017). Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789鈥1848. By KatrinaNavickas. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2016. xiv, 332 pp. Hardback 拢70.00; paperback 拢20.00. ISBN 9780719097058; 9781526116703. Parliamentary History, 36 (3), 407-409.
Roberts, M. (2017). . Social History, 42 (3), 365-398.
Roberts, M. (2015). . Labour history review, 80 (2), 195-200.
Roberts, M. (2015). The People's Charter. Modern History Review, 18 (2).
Roberts, M. (2014). Radicalism, Protest, and Repression in Britain, 1830-1848. Labour History Review, 79 (3), 329-336.
Roberts, M. (2013). . Labour history review, 78 (1), 3-32.
Roberts, M. (2013). . Cultural and Social History, 10 (3), 369-395.
Roberts, M. (2013). Essay in Review: Labouring in the Digital Archive. Labour History Review, 78 (1), 113-126.
Nixon, M., Pentland, G., & Roberts, M. (2012). . Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 32 (1), 28-49.
Roberts, M. (2011). . Journal of British Studies, 50 (2), 381-409.
Roberts, M. (2010). Out of Chartism, into Liberalism: Popular Radicals and the Liberal Party in Mid-Victorian Britain. Journal of Liberal History.
Roberts, M. (2007). Popular Conservatism In Britain, 1832-1914. Parliamentary History, 26 (3), 387-410.
Roberts, M. (2006). Currents of Electoral Independence: James Lowther and Popular Politics in York, c.1856-1880. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 78.
ROBERTS, M. (2006). 鈥榁ILLA TORYISM鈥 AND POPULAR CONSERVATISM IN LEEDS, 1885鈥1902. The Historical Journal, 49 (1), 217-246.
Roberts, M. (2006). Constructing a Tory world-view: popular politics and the Conservative press in late-Victorian Leeds*. Historical 香蕉视频, 79 (203), 115-143.
Roberts, M. (2000). Gladstone and the Irish Question. Journal of Liberal History.
Book chapters
Roberts, M. (2023). Romantic memory? Forgetting, remembering and feeling in the Chartist pantheon of heroes, c. 1790鈥1840. (pp. 93-120). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc:
Roberts, M. (2023). From Colston to canons: Memory, tradition and the political use of the past in modern Britain. (pp. 1-14). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc:
Roberts, M. (2021). . In Subaltern Medievalisms. Medievalism "from below" in Nineteenth-Century Britain. (pp. 19-38). Boydell & Brewer:
Roberts, M. (2019). The Makeshift Economy of the Nottinghamshire Framework Knitters, c.1780-1840. In Industrialisation and Working People Cromford and Beyond in the Era of the Industrial Revolution. Cromford Press
Roberts, M. (2019). The Makeshift Economy of the Nottinghamshire Framework Knitters, c.1780-1840. In Industrialisation and Working People Cromford and Beyond in the Era of the Industrial Revolution. Cromford Press
Roberts, M. (2019). Pentrich to Peterloo via New York: Paine, Cobbett and the Atlantic World. In From Pentrich to Peterloo Legacies of Protest for Political Change, 1817-1819. University of Nottingham
Roberts, M. (2019). Pentrich to Peterloo via New York: Paine, Cobbett and the Atlantic World. In From Pentrich to Peterloo Legacies of Protest for Political Change, 1817-1819. University of Nottingham
Roberts, M. (2018). God Save the Paddock Flag: Anti-Poor Law and Chartist Banners. In The Charter Our Right! Huddersfield Chartism Re-considered. Huddersfield Local History Society
Roberts, M. (2018). God Save the Paddock Flag: Anti-Poor Law and Chartist Banners. In The Charter Our Right! Huddersfield Chartism Re-considered. Huddersfield Local History Society
Roberts, M. (2017). Posthumous Paine in the United Kingdom, 1809-1832: Jacobin or Loyalist Cult? In The Legacy of Thomas Paine in the Transatlantic World. Routledge
Roberts, M. (2017). Posthumous Paine in the United Kingdom, 1809-1832: Jacobin or Loyalist Cult? In The Legacy of Thomas Paine in the Transatlantic World. Routledge
Roberts, M. (2015). . In Grande, J., & Stevenson, J. (Eds.) William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment : Contexts and Legacies. (pp. 107-121). London: Pickering and Chatto
Roberts, M. (2014). Radical Banners from Peterloo to Chartism. In Return to Peterloo. Manchester Metropolitan University
Roberts, M. (2014). Radical Banners from Peterloo to Chartism. In Return to Peterloo. Manchester Metropolitan University
Roberts, M. (2013). . In Otte, T.G., & Readman, P. (Eds.) By-elections in British politics, 1832-1914. (pp. 177-200). Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer
Roberts, M. (2007). W. L. Jackson, exemplary manliness and late-Victorian popular Conservatism. In Public men: political masculinities in Britain, 1700-2000. Palgrave
Roberts, M. (2007). W. L. Jackson, exemplary manliness and late-Victorian popular Conservatism. In Public men: political masculinities in Britain, 1700-2000. Palgrave
Books
Roberts, M. (2023). Memory and Modern British Politics: Commemoration, Tradition, Legacy.
Roberts, M. (2022). . Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Roberts, M. (2019). . Abingdon: Routledge.
Roberts, M. (2008). Political Movements in Urban England, 1832-1914. Palgrave.
Theses / Dissertations
Stanley, J.W. (2020). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Roberts, M.
Internet Publications
Roberts, M. (2021). What might labour historians do with history of emotions?
Roberts, M. (2020). An Impassioned Royal Scandal: The Queen Caroline Affair and the Politics of Feeling in Later Georgian England.
Roberts, M. (2017). Satan's Bank Note.
Roberts, M. (2008). Electoral reform dilemmas: are single-member constituencies out of date?
Other activities
Co-book reviews editor for Labour History Review