Matthew Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0639-1634 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease following venison exposure in a chronic wasting disease-endemic region
Background Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, rapidly progressive prion disease with established zoonotic transmission only in its variant form. Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a prion disease affecting cervid populations in North America, continues to expand geographically, raising public health concerns regarding potential interspecies transmission. Methods We describe the clinical course, diagnostic evaluation, and public health investi…
Malcolm Chase
This paper brings together the reflections by three historians who knew Malcolm Chase, presented at the Northern History memorial conference in Leeds on 29 November 2024. It shows how integral Malcolm Chase’s work was to nineteenth-century political and labour history of Britain. It explains his impact and legacy on the study of history, especially in and of northern England, and ends with a call for more work on regional and working-class histor…
Chartism
The Chartist movement continues to occupy a central place in the history and historiography of modern Britain. As the first mass working-class movement for democracy in Britain, Chartism remains a controversial episode for historians trying to understand and explain it. Was it a movement with revolutionary aims and violent strategies and tactics? How socially inclusive were the Chartists? Was the movement little more than irrational hunger politi…
Women, Late Chartism, and the Land Plan in Nottinghamshire
This article explores the relationship between working-class women and Chartism, focusing chiefly on Nottingham. It argues that the opportunities for women to participate in the movement were much more varied and enduring than previous historians have often supposed. One of the reasons why women were so prominent by the time of Chartism in the 1840s was because of a tradition of political participation. Even by the period of late Chartism (post-1…
Popular politics, heritage and memories of Chartism in England and Wales, 1918-2020
Chartism has enjoyed a remarkably enduring posthumous life. This article focuses on the politics of remembering the movement via three case studies: the interwar political left, the attempts by the political and cultural establishment to co-opt Chartism since the 1980s, and the role of Chartism in the contemporary and ongoing campaigns for democratic renewal promoted by a range of heritage organizations and groups. By drawing on critical heritage…
Globalization and Neoliberalism
Globalization is reshaping the world, the conditions in which we exist and the societies in which we live. However, globalization is not politically neutral; in its current form, it is enmeshed with the ideology of neoliberalism. This ideology encompasses both economic theory and normative ideals of self and society. Thus, neoliberal globalization spreads both the economic and normative elements of neoliberalism across the globe. Neoliberal globa…
Women and Late Chartism
This article revisits the relationship between women and Chartism, the British mass movement for democratic rights that dominated popular politics from the late 1830s to the 1850s. It argues that the opportunities for women to participate in the movement were more varied, extensive and enduring than has often been appreciated. Particular attention is paid to late Chartism (1843–52) by documenting in full, for the first time, the number of female …
Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult of the Radical Hero
By drawing on new and exciting work in the fields of visual and material culture, cultures of heroism, memory and commemoration, critical heritage studies and the history of political thought, this book explores the complex cultural work
Richard Oastler, Toryism, Radicalism and the Limitations of Party, c .1807–46
Richard Oastler (1789–1861), the immensely popular and fiery orator who campaigned for factory reform and for the abolition of the new poor law in the 1830s and 1840s, has been relatively neglected by political historians. Few historians, however, have questioned his toryism. As this article suggests, labelling Oastler an ‘ultra‐tory’ or a ‘church and state tory’ obscures more than it reveals. There were also radical strands in Oastler's ideology…
Daniel O'Connell, Repeal, and Chartism in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
This article in a contribution to recent work which has begun to integrate the study of British and Irish popular politics in the early nineteenth century. It begins by comparing the two movements - seldom done in the respective historiographies - which dominated popular politics on either side of the Irish Sea in the 1840s: Chartism and the campaign for the repeal of the Act of Union (1800). The enmity between the two movements has blinded histo…
Rural Luddism and the makeshift economy of the Nottinghamshire framework knitters
This article explores the geography and culture of machine breaking in Nottinghamshire, home to the Luddite framework knitters. Earlier accounts have shed some light on why Luddism broke out in 1811 to 1812; but they have had much less to say about why it assumed the form and the geography that it did. By situating Luddism in a longer chronological and broader historiographical context, the article suggests that it makes more sense when viewed as…
Crown, Church and Constitution
The German Historical Institute is to be commended for appreciating the value of this study by publishing an English translation of a title that originally appeared in German in 2010. Neuheiser has set himself a large brief, possibly too large, an exploration of a cluster of popular values, assumptions, and beliefs that go by a variety of names: small c conservatism, large C conservatism, loyalism, patriotism, racism, Anglicanism, Orangeism, and …
Archive Report
Radicalism, Protest, and Repression in Britain, 1830-1848
Election Cartoons and Political Communication in Victorian England
This article shows how perspectives drawn from visual and cultural studies can be used to shed new light on established areas of historical enquiry, in this case electoral politics. The focus is on general election cartoons – a rich though neglected historical source, the production and consumption of which thrived in large provincial towns from the 1860s to the 1880s. Election cartoons did more than simply visualize the written and spoken word. …
Essay in Review
Chartism in Scotland, by W. Hamish Fraser
Historians have been chipping away at the traditional view that Scottish Chartists were overwhelmingly moderate in their demands, peaceful in their methods, wary of fiery demagogues, and markedly keen on co-operating with other reformers ever since this interpretation was established by Leslie C. Wright in his 1953 monograph, Scottish Chartism (rev. ante, lxix [1954], 170–71). Even Alexander Wilson’s subsequent monograph, The Chartist Movement in…
The Material Culture of Scottish Reform Politics, c.1820–c.1884
Borderline Citizens
Borderline Citizens: Women, Gender, and Political Culture in Britain, 1815–1867, by Kathryn Gleadle, Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2010, v + 321 pp., £55.00 (hardback), I
Resisting “Arithmocracy”
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Land and Nation in England
The Transformation of Urban Liberalism
The 1880s and 1890s have often been regarded as decades of crisis for the British Liberal party. In its divided and demoralised state, following the split over Irish Home Rule, the Liberal party struggled to come to terms with mass (and more specifically, class) politics. Historians have been famously divided over the fortunes of the post-Gladstonian Liberal party, with the majority falling into one of two camps. Firstly, there are the ‘pessimist…
Political Movements in Urban England, 1832–1914
Popular Conservatism in Imperial London 1868–1906 – By Alex Windscheffel
The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914
Villa Toryism’ and Popular Conservatism in Leeds, 1885–1902
This article is a contribution to the continuing debate on the character and electoral fortunes of the Conservative party in late Victorian England. Using the West Riding borough of Leeds as a case study, this article focuses on suburban Conservatism (villa toryism) and situates it within the broader context of urban Conservatism in and beyond Leeds. It explores the nature of Conservative electoral dominance in the period after the Third Reform A…
Political Movements in Urban England, 1832–1914
Resisting “Arithmocracy”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Globalization and Neoliberalism
Globalization is reshaping the world, the conditions in which we exist and the societies in which we live. However, globalization is not politically neutral; in its current form, it is enmeshed with the ideology of neoliberalism. This ideology encompasses both economic theory and normative ideals of self and society. Thus, neoliberal globalization spreads both the economic and normative elements of neoliberalism across the globe. Neoliberal globa…
Adventures in Podcasting
It all started with a scheduling conflict. Because of a Model United Nations conference, one student let me know that she would need to miss our research methods class the coming week. As hands popped up around the room I realized I would be missing almost a third of my class. Unfortunately they were going to miss crucial lectures on measures of significance and measures of association, without which they could be considerably lost when it came t…
Constructing a Tory world-view
This article examines the role played by the press in late-Victorian popular politics, focusing on the ways in which the press created and sustained distinctive party-political cultures. Through a case study of the Conservative press in Leeds the article recreates the mental world inhabited by urban Conservatives in the period after the Second Reform Act. The press, it is argued, was central to the Leeds Conservative party's strategy of managing …
Election Cartoons and Political Communication in Victorian England
This article shows how perspectives drawn from visual and cultural studies can be used to shed new light on established areas of historical enquiry, in this case electoral politics. The focus is on general election cartoons – a rich though neglected historical source, the production and consumption of which thrived in large provincial towns from the 1860s to the 1880s. Election cartoons did more than simply visualize the written and spoken word. …
Small Islands, Big Media
Villa Toryism’ and Popular Conservatism in Leeds, 1885–1902
This article is a contribution to the continuing debate on the character and electoral fortunes of the Conservative party in late Victorian England. Using the West Riding borough of Leeds as a case study, this article focuses on suburban Conservatism (villa toryism) and situates it within the broader context of urban Conservatism in and beyond Leeds. It explores the nature of Conservative electoral dominance in the period after the Third Reform A…
Constructing a Tory world-view
This article examines the role played by the press in late-Victorian popular politics, focusing on the ways in which the press created and sustained distinctive party-political cultures. Through a case study of the Conservative press in Leeds the article recreates the mental world inhabited by urban Conservatives in the period after the Second Reform Act. The press, it is argued, was central to the Leeds Conservative party's strategy of managing …
Popular Conservatism in Britain, 1832–1914
Popular Conservatism in Imperial London 1868–1906 – By Alex Windscheffel
The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914
Adventures in Podcasting
It all started with a scheduling conflict. Because of a Model United Nations conference, one student let me know that she would need to miss our research methods class the coming week. As hands popped up around the room I realized I would be missing almost a third of my class. Unfortunately they were going to miss crucial lectures on measures of significance and measures of association, without which they could be considerably lost when it came t…
Land and Nation in England
The Transformation of Urban Liberalism
The 1880s and 1890s have often been regarded as decades of crisis for the British Liberal party. In its divided and demoralised state, following the split over Irish Home Rule, the Liberal party struggled to come to terms with mass (and more specifically, class) politics. Historians have been famously divided over the fortunes of the post-Gladstonian Liberal party, with the majority falling into one of two camps. Firstly, there are the ‘pessimist…
Political Movements in Urban England, 1832–1914
Resisting “Arithmocracy”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Chartism in Scotland, by W. Hamish Fraser
Historians have been chipping away at the traditional view that Scottish Chartists were overwhelmingly moderate in their demands, peaceful in their methods, wary of fiery demagogues, and markedly keen on co-operating with other reformers ever since this interpretation was established by Leslie C. Wright in his 1953 monograph, Scottish Chartism (rev. ante, lxix [1954], 170–71). Even Alexander Wilson’s subsequent monograph, The Chartist Movement in…
The Material Culture of Scottish Reform Politics, c.1820–c.1884
Borderline Citizens
Borderline Citizens: Women, Gender, and Political Culture in Britain, 1815–1867, by Kathryn Gleadle, Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2010, v + 321 pp., £55.00 (hardback), I
Election Cartoons and Political Communication in Victorian England
This article shows how perspectives drawn from visual and cultural studies can be used to shed new light on established areas of historical enquiry, in this case electoral politics. The focus is on general election cartoons – a rich though neglected historical source, the production and consumption of which thrived in large provincial towns from the 1860s to the 1880s. Election cartoons did more than simply visualize the written and spoken word. …
Essay in Review
Radicalism, Protest, and Repression in Britain, 1830-1848
Archive Report
Rural Luddism and the makeshift economy of the Nottinghamshire framework knitters
This article explores the geography and culture of machine breaking in Nottinghamshire, home to the Luddite framework knitters. Earlier accounts have shed some light on why Luddism broke out in 1811 to 1812; but they have had much less to say about why it assumed the form and the geography that it did. By situating Luddism in a longer chronological and broader historiographical context, the article suggests that it makes more sense when viewed as…
Crown, Church and Constitution
The German Historical Institute is to be commended for appreciating the value of this study by publishing an English translation of a title that originally appeared in German in 2010. Neuheiser has set himself a large brief, possibly too large, an exploration of a cluster of popular values, assumptions, and beliefs that go by a variety of names: small c conservatism, large C conservatism, loyalism, patriotism, racism, Anglicanism, Orangeism, and …
Richard Oastler, Toryism, Radicalism and the Limitations of Party, c .1807–46
Richard Oastler (1789–1861), the immensely popular and fiery orator who campaigned for factory reform and for the abolition of the new poor law in the 1830s and 1840s, has been relatively neglected by political historians. Few historians, however, have questioned his toryism. As this article suggests, labelling Oastler an ‘ultra‐tory’ or a ‘church and state tory’ obscures more than it reveals. There were also radical strands in Oastler's ideology…
Daniel O'Connell, Repeal, and Chartism in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
This article in a contribution to recent work which has begun to integrate the study of British and Irish popular politics in the early nineteenth century. It begins by comparing the two movements - seldom done in the respective historiographies - which dominated popular politics on either side of the Irish Sea in the 1840s: Chartism and the campaign for the repeal of the Act of Union (1800). The enmity between the two movements has blinded histo…
Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult of the Radical Hero
By drawing on new and exciting work in the fields of visual and material culture, cultures of heroism, memory and commemoration, critical heritage studies and the history of political thought, this book explores the complex cultural work
Globalization and Neoliberalism
Globalization is reshaping the world, the conditions in which we exist and the societies in which we live. However, globalization is not politically neutral; in its current form, it is enmeshed with the ideology of neoliberalism. This ideology encompasses both economic theory and normative ideals of self and society. Thus, neoliberal globalization spreads both the economic and normative elements of neoliberalism across the globe. Neoliberal globa…
Women and Late Chartism
This article revisits the relationship between women and Chartism, the British mass movement for democratic rights that dominated popular politics from the late 1830s to the 1850s. It argues that the opportunities for women to participate in the movement were more varied, extensive and enduring than has often been appreciated. Particular attention is paid to late Chartism (1843–52) by documenting in full, for the first time, the number of female …
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