My essay on 'The Literature of Chartism' is in Oxford Handbookk Victorian Literary Culture: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Romantic Illustration Network hosts talk on the Shakespeare Gallery by Fred Burwick at Westminster Archives: …nticillustrationnetwork.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/rin…

Keynote speaker at the Esprit conference 7-8 July, Liverpool John Moores: 'Periodical Counter Cultures'
ljmu.ac.uk/conferences/es…

My 3 volumes of Chartist fiction are published in the series The Victorian World: note the uniform covers

I am speaking at the Edward Lloyd conference this Saturday 18 June: bavs.ac.uk/news/97/

Pleased to announce that Palgrave will be publishing Spain in British Romanticism, co-edited with Diego Saglia.

Recent Erasmus visit to Cadiz; monuments to 1812 Constitution and a call for open borders on town hall.

Routledge are reprinting my three volumes of Chartist fiction in June 2016 :routledge.com/products/searc…

Doyle image: Original in the Library of Congress; only caricature can convey the monstrosity of the event; no photography at this time

My discovery of a Richard 'Dicky' Doyle sketch of police brutality against the Chartists in Birmingham in 1839

Just setting up my Twitter. #myfirstTweet