Research group

Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research

A nineteenth century image of the High Street leading to the Bargate in Southampton

We highlight research on the ‘long 19th century’ (1789-1917) carried out by our members across several faculties and a wide range of disciplines.

About

We launched our research centre in the summer of 2012 after two years as a successful reading group. Our membership of over 70 researchers includes staff, students, and external friends. We work across several faculties in the University and beyond.

We meet up to three times a term to present and discuss our work. We also debate issues of central importance to interdisciplinary 19th century studies.

We invite guests to speak at our external events. These include seminars, and conferences.

Our centre aims are to publicise the work done by our members. We forge and extend links with 19th century researchers in other institutions globally too.

 

Research themes

Research themes include:

  • British debate over slavery
  • diaries of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
  • fluid geographies and global mobilities: recovering Southampton’s translocal book trade networks 1840 -1914
  • local population studies society parish register project
  • monstrous flowers: literature women and botany
  • the most typical Victorian of them all?
  • two shipwrecks in Alum Bay

 

Journals

Romance, Revolution and Reform is a PGR-led journal based at the University of Southampton. It has an open access policy, supporting post-graduates. It includes papers by established academics too.

The editorial team publishes stimulating new research on the long 19th century (1789-1914). This can be from the perspective of any humanities or social sciences discipline.

The Journal aims to help new researchers and early career academics publish their latest findings.

Read our latest issue, and find out more about RRR's policies and how to publish with us

Email us at RRR@soton.ac.uk

 

News and events

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People, projects, publications and PhDs

People

Professor Maria Hayward

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Early modern textiles and clothing especially in a court context.
  • Early modern court culture, including the Tudors and the later Stuarts.
  • Early modern Scotland, in particular looking at the engagement of the male elite with material culture. 

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Emeritus Professor Mark Cornwall PhD, FRHistS

Research interests

  • Late Habsburg Empire 1848-1918, including the First World War
  • Global History of Treason from antiquity to the modern era
  • Czech-German relations in the Bohemian lands

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Matt Kerr

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Nineteenth-century literature and culture
  • Oceanic humanities
  • Waste and rubbish

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Noëmie Duhaut

Lecturer in Mdrn European Jewish History

Research interests

  • Jewish politics & Jewish internationalism
  • Legal practice and legal actors
  • Imperial expansion

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Related research institutes, centres and groups

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Enquiries

For more information, please contact Dr Aude Campmas

School of Humanities,
Faculty of Arts & Humanities,
Avenue Campus,
University of Southampton,
Southampton
SO17 1BF