Pocahontas and after: historical culture and transatlantic encounters, 1617-2017
Professional Affiliations Professional affiliations: Name This thesis takes a founding step to resolve the lack of research into travel accounts with respect to their contribution to garden history. Manuscript Journals of Travel in England in the Eighteenth Century Can they reshape and add to our understanding of garden history? Research Projects & Supervisions Current PhD topics supervised: Dates Printing History: the journal of the American Printing History Association. Keeping Time in the Age of Franklin: Almanacs and the Atlantic World
The Royal Historical Society/The Boydell Press Studies in History New Series (2011) Time and the French Revolution: the Republican Calendar, 1789-Year XIV Morgan and Philip John Davies, eds., Reconfiguring the Union Civil War Transformations Studies of the Americas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) 'There Will be Blood:' The Civil War and the Birth of the Oil Industry Claire Breay & Julian Harrison, Magna Carta: law, liberty and legacy (British Library Publications, 2015) In The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the ArtsĮdited by Ann-Marie Einhaus, Katherine Isobel BaxterĮd. Publication Details Related publications/articles: Date Matthew is available to supervise graduate students in the French Revolution, timekeeping, and the Atlantic World. His DPhil (York, 2000) explored the history of the French Republican Calendar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has taught French Revolutionary and early-modern European History at Birkbeck College, where he was an honorary fellow, and is currently at visiting fellow at Northumbria University. He has also worked on American Studies, the First World War and issues related to archives, libraries and digitisation.īefore joining the School in 2016, Matthew was curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political and historical papers and was lead curator of the Americas Collections at the British Library, where he curated a number of exhibitions, including Taking Liberties: the struggle for Britain’s rights and freedoms (2008), Growing Knowledge (2010), On the Road: Jack Kerouac’s Manuscript Scroll (2012), Enduring War: grief, grit and humour (2014) and Animal Tales (2015). Matthew Shaw is the Librarian of the IHR, with research interests in the French Revolution and, more broadly, the long-eighteenth century. Research Summary and Profile Research interests: Digital resources, History, Library Regions: Europe, North America, United Kingdom Summary of research interests and expertise: Contact details Name: Dr Matthew Shaw Qualifications: BA, MA, DPhil Position: Librarian Institute: Institute of Commonwealth Studies Email address: Website: