Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research
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 atRRR@soton.ac.uk
News and events
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Image credit -Southampton City Council/ SeaCity Museum
People, projects, publications and PhDs
People
Professor Aaron Ridley
Research interests
- Aesthetics
- Philosophy of Music
- Nietzsche
Accepting applications from PhD students
Connect with Aaron
Email:amr3@soton.ac.uk
Tel:+44 23 8059 2908
Dr Aude Campmas
Research interests
- Representations of childfree women
- Trauma and discrimination
- Trauma and memory
Accepting applications from PhD students
Connect with Aude
Professor Christer Petley
Research interests
- Atlantic History
- Caribbean History
- Slavery and Abolition
Accepting applications from PhD students
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Professor Christopher Janaway
Research interests
- Schopenhauer
- Nietzsche
- Classical Indian Philosophy
Accepting applications from PhD students
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Dr Christopher Prior
Research interests
- Imperial history and the legacies of empire
- The history of modern sub-Saharan Africa
- Socio-political and intellectual networks in foreign policy
Accepting applications from PhD students
Connect with Christopher
Email:C.Prior@soton.ac.uk
Tel:+44 23 8059 4155
Emeritus Professor Christopher Woolgar FBA
Research interests
- Daily life in the later middle ages
- Material culture
- Testamentary records in the later middle ages
Connect with Christopher
Professor David Brown
Research interests
- The history of social reform and philanthropy
- Victorian liberalism
- British political history
Connect with David
Email:d.s.brown@soton.ac.uk
Tel:+44 23 8059 9397
Dr David Cox
Research interests
- Race
- Folklore
- Magic
Connect with David
Email:D.G.Cox@soton.ac.uk
Tel:+44 23 8059 2191
Emeritus Professor David Glover
Connect with David
Email:dg6@soton.ac.uk
Professor David Owen Norris MA (Oxon.) FSA FRAM FRCO FRNCM
Research interests
- Nineteenth-century pianofortes
- The interpretation of Marks of Expression
- Mendelssohn, Parry, Elgar, Walton & Lambert
Connect with David
Publications
PhD opportunities
The SCNR exists within and contributes to a lively research environment. PhD and MA students are active members of the Centre. They give papers to its members, and contribute material for Study Days.
Students' projects often involve our important archive holdings.
Each year, we organise a visit to the Bodleian Library 19th century Handpress Printing Workshop in Oxford for postgraduates.
The SCNR PGR Forum is a vibrant community of postgraduate students. They come from across and beyond the humanities. The Forum meets monthly during university term time to share research and ideas and to talk about all things 19th century.
The centre allows synergies between past and present and demonstrates the relevance of 19th-century studies to understand today’s challenges.
I am founder and former Director of SCNR, and former Academic Editor of the Centre’s postgraduate journal Romance, Revolution and Reform. I have published widely on the history of the book and the history of reading in the long C19th.
My work focuses on the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (including producing an edition of his diaries) and asks questions about the motivations of philanthropists and their role in questions of social reform.
Related research institutes, centres and groups
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Enquiries
School of Humanities,
Faculty of Arts & Humanities,
Avenue Campus,
University of Southampton,
Southampton
SO17 1BF