E-mail: Bob.Nicholson@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Second year AHRC funded 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 interested in the development of digital history and the new methodological possibilities offered to cultural historians by the digitisation of newspaper archives.

Referees / Supervisors

Prof. Bertrand Taithe

Professor in Cultural History

University of Manchester

bertrand.taithe@manchester.ac.uk

0161 275 3102

Dr. Julie-Marie Strange

Lecturer in Victorian History

University of Manchester

Julie-marie.strange@manchester.ac.uk

0161 275 3025

Conference Papers

o   ‘Good Stories from America:’ Popular Newspapers and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1880-1914.”

Postgraduate Conference in History and Classics

University of Manchester, 22^nd-23^rd February, 2008.

o   ‘Yankee Vignettes’: Late-Victorian newspapers and the popular fantasy of America, 1870-1900.

Who Are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century

 University of Leeds, 6^th September 2008.

o   “A Wondrous Modern Combination of Babylon and Babel”: Chicago, Modernity, and the Press in fin-de-siècle Britain.

Perspectives on the Past

University of Manchester, 26^th-27^th March, 2009.

Theses, Publications, and Work in Progress

o   “‘Daring Desperados:’ Glamorous Criminals and the Late-Victorian Press”

M.A. Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008.

o   “America and the late-Victorian Press” [working title]

PhD Thesis, University of Manchester, ongoing.

o   “The Digital Turn: Cultural History 2.0 and the future of Victorian Studies”

Journal article, currently In progress.

Awards & Prizes

o   Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in 19^th-Century Media, 2009.

 Awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP).

o   AHRC Funding for MA (2008) and PhD (2008-2011)

o   Undergraduate:

2007: Tout Prize (Best Exam Performance) & Thomas Brown Memorial Prize (Best Overall Performance).

2006:  Bradford History Scholarship (Best Overall Performance).

Qualifications

PhD*

University of Manchester

2008-2011*

History

Ongoing

AHRC funded

MA

University of Manchester

2008

Victorian Studies

Distinction

AHRC funded

BA

University of Manchester

2007

History

1^st

Graduated top of year with two prizes.