We highlight research on the ‘long nineteenth century’ (1789-1917) carried out by our members across several faculties and a wide range of disciplines.
The SCNCR launched as a Research Centre in the summer of 2012 after two years as a successful reading group. We now comprise over 70 researchers including staff, students, and external friends, across several faculties in the University and beyond.
We meet up to three times a term to present and discuss our work, to debate issues of central importance to interdisciplinary nineteenth-century studies, and to host external events including guest speakers, seminars, and conferences. Our main aims are to publicise the work done by our members, and to forge and extend links with nineteenth-century researchers in other institutions globally.
Research themes include:
Romance, Revolution and Reform is an innovative PGR-led journal based at the University of Southampton. It adopts an Open Access policy and is dedicated to supporting Post-Graduates, in addition to publishing papers by established academics.
The editorial team are committed to the publication of intellectually stimulating new research into the long 19th Century (1789-1914) within any humanities or social sciences discipline.
The Journal particularly aims to assist new researchers and early career academics in publishing their latest findings. For more information on RRR's policies, our latest issue and how to publish with us, please click on the link above, or email us at RRR@soton.ac.uk
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The SCNR exists within and contributes to a lively research environment. PhD and MA students are active members of the Centre, regularly giving papers to its members, and contributing material for Study Days. Students' projects often involve our important archive holdings, and we organise an annual trip to the Bodleian Library 19th-century Handpress Printing Workshop in Oxford for postgraduates.
The SCNR PGR Forum is a vibrant community of postgraduate students from across and beyond the humanities. The Forum meets monthly during university term time to share research and ideas and to talk about all things nineteenth century.
The centre allows synergies between past and present and demonstrates the relevance of 19th-century studies to understand today’s challenges.
I am founder and former Director of SCNR, and former Academic Editor of the Centre’s postgraduate journal Romance, Revolution and Reform. I have published widely on the history of the book and the history of reading in the long C19th.
My work focuses on the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (including producing an edition of his diaries) and asks questions about the motivations of philanthropists and their role in questions of social reform.
School of Humanities,
Faculty of Arts & Humanities,
Avenue Campus,
University of Southampton,
Southampton
SO17 1BF
