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Dr Simon Morgan

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School of Cultural Studies & Humanities

0113 81 25567 S.J.Morgan@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

About Dr Simon Morgan

Dr Morgan graduated with a PhD in History from the University of York in 2000. His thesis, "Middle-Class Women, Civic Virtue and Identity in Leeds and the West Riding of Yorkshire, c.1830 - c.1860" was the basis of his 2007 monograph A Victorian Woman's Place: Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century. London: I B Tauris. In 2002 he joined the Letters of Richard Cobden Project at the London School of Economics (since relocated to the University of East Anglia) as its first Research Officer, under the leadership of Anthony Howe. Having been assistant editor on volumes I and II, published by Oxford University Press (2006, 2010), Simon has since co-edited volumes III and IV with Professor Howe.

Dr Morgan is now working on a book-length study of Personality and Popular Politics, 1815-1867. This project emerged from his research into Richard Cobden's emergence as a celebrity politician in the period 1834-1846. In the process he has become interested in the history of celebrity, an emerging field in which he is something of a pioneer.

Dr Morgan would welcome interest from potential research students in the fields of nineteenth-century public and political culture, with particular reference to the public role and experience of women; political pressure groups; and Victorian celebrity culture.

Current Teaching

BA (Hons) History, and BA (Hons) English & History

Britishness: Nation and Identity, 1707-1999
British Political Cultures, 1832-1939
Landscapes of History
The Emergence of Modern Europe
Twentieth-Century Europe
Society and Culture in Modern Britain
The Public and the Past

MA Social History

Fame, hero-worship and celebrity culture, c.1750 - c.1880

Selected Publications

Journal articles (3)

Morgan SJ (2012), Material Culture and the Politics of Personality in Early Victorian England
https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2012.673298
Morgan SJ (2011), Celebrity: Academic "Pseudo-Event" or a Useful Category for Historians.
https://doi.org/10.2752/147800411X12858412044474
Morgan SJ (2009), The Anti-Corn Law League and British Anti-Slavery in Transatlantic Perspective
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X08007322

Books (2)

Howe A; Morgan S ed. (2015) The Letters of Richard Cobden Volume IV: 1860-1865. Oxford University Press, USA.
Howe A; Morgan S (2012) The Letters of Richard Cobden. III, 1854-1859. OUP Oxford.

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Journal articles (10)

Morgan SJ (2012), Material Culture and the Politics of Personality in Early Victorian England
https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2012.673298
Morgan S (2011), Celebrity
https://doi.org/10.2752/147800411x12858412044474
Morgan SJ (2011), Celebrity: Academic "Pseudo-Event" or a Useful Category for Historians.
https://doi.org/10.2752/147800411X12858412044474
Morgan SJ (2010), Historicising Celebrity
Morgan SJ (2009), The Anti-Corn Law League and British Anti-Slavery in Transatlantic Perspective
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X08007322
Morgan SJ (2007), The reward of public service: nineteenth-century testimonials in context
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2006.00374.x
Morgan SJ (2004), Richard Cobden and British Imperialism
Morgan SJ (2004), Cobden and Manchester
Morgan SJ (2004), 'A sort of land debatable': female influence, civic virtue and middle-class identity, c 1830-c 1860[1]
https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020400200389
Morgan SJ (2002), Seen but Not Heard? Women's Platforms, Respectability, and Female Publics in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Books (4)

Howe A; Morgan S ed. (2015) The Letters of Richard Cobden Volume IV: 1860-1865. Oxford University Press, USA.
Howe A; Morgan S (2012) The Letters of Richard Cobden. III, 1854-1859. OUP Oxford.
Morgan S (2007) A Victorian woman's place. I. B. Tauris & Company.
Howe A; Morgan S (2006) Rethinking Nineteenth-century Liberalism. Ashgate Publishing.

Chapters (5)

Morgan SJ (In press) The Political as Personal: Transatlantic Abolition, c. 1833-1867. In: Empire and Abolition: A Global History of Anti-Slavery in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. .
Morgan SJ (2013) The Political as Personal: Transatlantic Abolitionism. In: Mulligan W; Bric M A Global History of Anti-Slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century. : Palgrave Macmillan, pp. .
Morgan SJ (2013) America, Protectionism and Democracy in British Free Trade Debates 1815-1861. In: The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy i-n British Culture, 1776-1914. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. .
Morgan SJ (2006) From Warehouse Clerk to Corn Law Celebrity: The Making of a National Hero. In: Howe A; Morgan S Rethinking Nineteenth-century Liberalism. : Ashgate Publishing, pp. .
Morgan SJ (2000) Domestic Economy and Political Agitation: Women and the Anti-Corn Law League. In: Gleadle K; Richardson S Women in British Politics, 1760-1860: The Power of the Petticoat. : Palgrave Macmillan, pp. .

Conference contributions (5)

Morgan SJ (2011) Material Culture and Extra-Parliamentary Politics University of Manchester 12/04/2011.
Morgan SJ (2010) The Language of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Politics University College, Dublin 30/04/2010.
Morgan SJ (2010) The Politics of Personality in the Free Trade and Anti-Slavery Movements Bradford 24/11/2010.
Morgan SJ (2009) The Language of Slavery in Nineteenth Century Politics University of Durham 02/04/2009.
Morgan SJ (2009) Demagogues or Democrats? Personality and Popular Liberalism in Anglo-American Perspective UCL 19/02/2009.

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