Staff profiles
Dr Matthew Roberts
BA, PhD
Phone 0114 225 3790
E-mail matthew.roberts@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
- popular politics in nineteenth-century Britain - popular Conservatism; the politics of citizenship and parliamentary reform
- gender history - political masculinities
- urban history - cities and suburbs as creative spaces
Research outputs since 2001
''Villa toryism' and popular Conservatism in Leeds, 1885-1902', Historical Journal, 49 (2006), pp. 217-246
'Constructing a Tory world-view: popular politics and the Conservative press in late-Victorian Leeds', Historical Research, 79 (2006), pp. 115-143
'Currents of electoral independence: James Lowther and popular politics in York, c.1865-1880', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 78 (2006), pp. 217-240
W. L. Jackson, exemplary manliness and late-Victorian popular Conservatism', and 'Chronologies in the history of British political masculinities, c.1700-2000', in Matthew McCormack (ed.), Public men: political masculinities in Britain, 1700-2000 (forthcoming, Palgrave, 2006), pp. 123-143 and 187-202
