Books

·Censorship and the Press, 1640-1660 (2009).

·Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England (2007).

·A Companion Volume to Roger Morrice's Entring Book, 1677-1691 (2007).

· Cromwell: our chief of enemies (1994).

Edited Books

·Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum (co-edited with David L. Smith) (2010)

·Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720 (four volume sourcebook; general editor, with Geoff Kemp of Auckland, New Zealand) (2009).

·Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars (co-edited with David L. Smith) (2007).

·Fear, Exclusion and Revolution: Roger Morrice and Britain in the 1680s (2006).

Articles in Books and Journals

· 'Licensing, Censorship and the Book Trade', in Laura Knoppers (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution (forthcoming Oxford, 2012).

· 'William Hone, Print Culture, and the Nature of Radicalism', in Ariel Hessayon (ed.), Rediscovering Radicalism, 1500-1800 (2011).

· '1641' in Joad Raymond (ed.), The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture , vol. 1: Beginnings to 1660 (2011).

· ‘Atlantic Royalism? Polemic, Censorship and “A Declaration and Protestation of the Governor and Inhabitants of Virginia” (1649)’ in McElligott & Smith (eds), Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum (2010).

·'The Constitution of Early-Modern Censorship', with Geoff Kemp, in Cyndia S. Clegg (ed.), Censorship and the Press, 1580-1639 (2009), pp. xiii-xxxiii.

· 'Introduction: Censure, Censorship and Press Freedom during the English Revolution', in McElligott, Censorship and the Press, 1640-1660 (2009).

·‘Stabilizing and Destabilizing Britain in the 1680s’, in Jason McElligott (ed.), Fear, Exclusion and Revolution: Roger Morrice and Britain in the 1680s (2006).

· ‘“Several hundred squabbling small tradesmen”? Censorship, the Stationers' Company, and the state in seventeenth-century England’, Media History, vol 11, no. 1/2, 2005, 87- 104. Reprinted under the same title in Joad Raymond (ed.), News networks in seventeenth-century Britain and Europe, (2005).

· ‘Roger Morrice and the reputation of the Eikon Basilike in the 1680s’, The Library, 7th ser., vol 6, 2(June 2005), 119-32.

· ‘A new eyewitness account of the Battle of the Boyne’, The Irish Sword, vol. XXIV, no. 95 (Summer 2004), 31-43.

· ‘John Crouch: a royalist journalist in Cromwellian England’, Media History, vol. 10, no 3, 2004, 139-55.

· Author of twenty two articles for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (September 2004). My areas of interest include royalist authors, printers, publishers, and clergymen of the civil wars and interregnum.

· ‘The politics of sexual libel: royalist propaganda in the 1640s’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 67 (March 2004), 75-99.

· ‘Cromwell, Drogheda and the abuse of Irish history’, Bullán: an Irish Studies Journal, vi, no. 1 (Summer/Fall2001), 109-32.

· ‘Edward Crouch: a poor printer in seventeenth century London’, Journal of the Printing Historical Society, ns 1 (2000), 49-73.

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

• Recipient of a 'Special Merit Award' (2009) for an 'outstanding contribution' to teaching and research at Oxford University.
• Elected to the Munby Fellowship in Bibliography at Cambridge University, 2008 (declined).
• Fellow of Merton College, Oxford (2005-08).
• Awarded an IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2003-05.
• United Kingdom Foreign Office Chevening Scholarship in 1997-98 and 1998-99.
• National University of Ireland Travelling Studentship for 1997-99.
• United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Board Scholarship for 1999-2000.
• Holder of the Robert Gardiner Memorial Scholarship (1997-2000) at Cambridge University.
• Scholarship from the Cambridge European Trust (1997-2000).
• Recipient of a scholarship (1994-96) from UCD to research an M.A. thesis on ‘The Newsbooks of Interregnum England, 1649-1660’.
• Winner of the T. Desmond Williams Memorial Medal for obtaining first place in the final year UCD history examination (1994).
• Winner of the Maureen Wall Memorial Medal for obtaining first place in the second year history examination (1993) in University College Dublin.
• Winner of the end of year Examination Debate in History (1993).
• Recipient of the Patrick Semple Distinguished Student Award (1993).

 

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

I divide my time between the seventeenth century (print culture, censorship, polemic, royalism) and the nineteenth century (print culture, William Hone, Richard Carlile, radicalism). I am currently working on a book-length project about William Hone and his radical milieu, and am editing an important archival find - the diary of the royalist polemicist Sir John Birkenhead in the early 1640s. This source throws fascinating new light on polemic, censorship and licensing at Oxford during the Civil War. It is the essential basis for a new history of polemic in Civil War England. I am also working on a number of articles which I will submit to British and American journals over the coming year. These pieces include:

• ‘Oliver Cromwell, Eroticism and Ovid’.
• ‘Infanticide, Massacre and Psalm 137 in Early-Modern Britain and Ireland’.
• ‘The Perils of Print Culture: Habermas, EEBO, and the I-Generation’.
• ‘Printers’ Networks in Cromwellian England.’
• 'Roger Morrice, Ireland and the New British History'
• 'Blasphemous Rumours: Re-thinking William Hone's three trials of December 1818'.
• ‘The Rediscovery of the Thomason Tracts in 1820s London’.
• ‘“The Man in the Moon Drinks Claret”: Radicals, Reactionaries and Print Culture, 1621-1821’.

 

SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED AT SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

I have presented two dozen or so academic papers in Britain, Ireland and the United States over the past decade. For the sake of brevity I have listed here only those presented over the past few years:

• 'Can we take newspapers too seriously? News and Truth during the English Revolution', keynote lecture at a conference entitled 'Journalism and History: Dialogues' hosted by the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History at the University of Sheffield, 15 September 2010.
• 'The Myths and Perils of Digitisation', presentation for 'At The Crossroads: The Road Ahead for Academic Libraries in Ireland', Irish National University Library Society (INULS) 2010, UCD, 25-25 June 2010.
• 'A History without a Future? Radicalism, Law, Power and the Media', concluding keynote address at ‘The Chalk, the Cheese and the Man in the Moon’, A symposium to celebrate the work of David Underdown, Jesus College, Oxford: Saturday 27 February 2010.
• '"Blessed Severity": Press Censorship in Cromwellian England, presentation at the Early-Modern British and Irish Seminar, TCD, 22 February 2010.
• 'News, Psalm 137 and Massacre in Civil War England', at the 'Royalist and Radical Religion' workshop at the University of Manchester, 11 Sept. 2009.
• 'News, Psalm 137 and Massacre in Civil War England', part of a round-table on 'Moral Panics in Historical Perspective' at the 'IAMHIST Conference 2009: Social Fears and Moral Panics, Aberystwyth, 8-11 July 2009.
• ‘Royalism, Censure and Censorship in Interregnum England’, presented at the 'Authorities and Authority' conference at the University of Reading, 6-8 July 2009.
• 'Atlantic Royalism? Polemic, Censorship, and the 1649 Declaration of Virginia', presented at 'The Reign of Charles I, 1625-1649' at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 24 January, 2009.
• ‘Milton, Psalm 137 and anti-Catholic Paranoia in Seventeenth-Century England’, presented at the History of the Book Seminar, Merton College, 14 May 2008.
• ‘William Hone and the History of Reading’, presented at the History of the Book Seminar, All Souls, Oxford, 22 February 2008.
• ‘The Perils of Print Culture: EEBO and the I-Pod Generation’, presented at the Humanities Institute of Ireland, Dublin, 5 October 2007 and at the University of Reading, 20 February 2008.
• ‘A New Model for Early-Modern Press Censorship’, invited paper at the Morrell Conference on Toleration, Department of Politics, University of York, September 2007
• ‘Atlantic Royalism? “A Declaration and Protestation of the Governor and Inhabitants of Virginia”, presented at the British Group in Early American History, University of Swansea, September 2007.
• ‘Calibrating Early-Modern Print Culture’, presented at a conference organised by the Centre for Media History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 28 March 2007.
• ‘The Perils of Print Culture’, presented at a colloquium entitled ‘In Search of Popular Politics’, Jesus College, Oxford, February 2007.
• ‘Rethinking Censorship in Early-Modern Britain’, a paper presented at the ‘Literary Culture in Early-Modern Britain’ seminar in Oxford, 15 November 2006.
• ‘William Hone and his Books’ at a conference entitled ‘Print Networks’, at Trinity College Dublin, 25-27 July 2006.
• ‘William Hone and the Transmission of Radical Ideas’ at a conference entitled ‘Rediscovering Radicalism in the British Isles and Ireland, c.1550-c.1700’, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 21-23 June 2006.
• ‘Secret and seditious: an underground network of Royalist printers and publishers in Civil War’ at the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 9 March 2006.
• ‘Cheap Print and Sexual Libel in Civil War Propaganda’ at the History of the Book Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford, 17 February 2006.
• ‘Marchmont Nedham, Royalism and the Shifting Nature of Civil War Allegiances’ at the Early-Modern British History Seminar, Oxford, 24 November 2005.

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