[ecrea] PhD opportunity: “Publishing popular history in the 19th century British newspaper”

“Publishing popular history in the 19th century British newspaper” (ref: 
RS/16/14) University of Central Lancashire, UK

The upside: A great project with plenty of scope to pursue personal 
interests.
The downside: Fees-only studentship (pay your own living expenses), and 
start date 1 July 2017, full-time only.

Applications are invited for a full-time 3 year fees-only PhD 
studentship (via MPhil), exploring the publishing of popular history in 
the 19th century British newspaper. The successful candidate will assess 
the scale and content of history publishing in newspapers, particularly 
local newspapers. The project will involve analysis of digitised and 
non-digitised newspapers, and comparisons with history publishing via 
magazines and books. Material such as chronologies, news of 
archaeological finds, dedicated ‘Notes and Queries’-style columns, 
folklore, dialect and wholesale scholarly transcription of historical 
sources will be analysed, and case studies selected. Qualitative, 
quantitative and ‘digital humanities’ methods can be used, according to 
the student’s interests and skills. The project could also study the 
writers of this material, and links between newspaper and book 
publishing.  Director of Studies: Dr Andrew Hobbs.

The project combines the histories of journalism, publishing, provincial 
literary and scholarly cultures, history as an academic profession, and 
amateurism versus professionalism. There is scope for the student to 
pursue personal scholarly interests under these broad headings.

This is an opportunity to realign current thinking on the publishing of 
history, away from books and towards newspapers and periodicals; to 
challenge established 19th-century historiography; to contribute to 
public history, and to explore historical consciousness among ordinary 
people, beyond the universities and metropolitan salons.

The University of Central Lancashire is close to substantial archival 
collections related to 19th-century local history and antiquarianism, 
including the Lancashire Archives, Chetham’s Library (Manchester) and 
Manchester Central Library. The student will be encouraged to use other 
relevant archives in the UK and Ireland.
International applicants may apply for the studentship but will be 
required to pay the difference in tuition fees.  It is expected the 
successful applicant will commence 1 July 2017.

Application deadline: 30 April.
Email me for further info/informal enquiries: (ahobbs2 /at/ uclan.ac.uk)

Details here (ref: RS/16/14, last project at bottom of page)
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/research/study/studentships.php



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