Bob Nicholson

PhD student at the University of Manchester. I'm currently exploring representations of America and the circulation of American culture in late-Victorian British newspapers and periodicals. My other research interests include the emergence of 'new journalism' and the representation of glamorous criminals and detectives in the nineteenth-century press.

I'm also very interested in the development of digital history. I'm particularly excited by the new methodological possibilities offered to cultural historians by the digitisation of newspaper archives. I'm also in the early stages of developing a website which will house, among other things, a searchable index of digitised nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals.