Publications

'Asa Briggs and the Making of Modern British Social History' in the online journal, History Compass 2011.

'Political Cultures' in Martin Hewitt (ed.), The Victorian World (Routledge, 2011).

'Melodrama' in Pamela Gilbert (ed.), Blackwell Companion to the Sensation Novel (Blackwell, 2011).

'Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland (1966): A Suitable Case for Treatment', Historical Journal of Film, Television and Radio, vol. 31 no. 2 (2011), 229-246.

'Unauthorised Identities: The impostor, the fake and the secret history in nineteenth century Britain' in Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor (eds.), Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp.67-92.

'The Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere and the Continuities of British Radicalism: New Directions in the history of popular politics, 1848-1884' in Makoto Ohno (ed), Kindai Igirisu to Koukyoken (Public Sphere in Modern Britain) (Kyoto: Shyowado, 2009), 241-281 (article translated into Japanese by Takasi Kojima).

'Jack the Ripper and the Historians', History Teaching Review Yearbook vol. 23 (2009), 34-39

'Standpoint: The Victorians', History Today July 2009, 60-1

'Victorian Sensations, NeoVictorian Romances', Victorian Studies vol. 51 no.4 (2009), 100-107: Special issue in which I was invited to select and comment on a range of key papers at the 2009 North American Victorian Studies Association/British Association of Victorian Studies Association conference in Cambridge.

'The French Connection: G.W.M. Reynolds and the Outlaw Robert Macaire' in Louis James and Anne Humphereys (eds.), G.W.M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics and the Press (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 33-49.

The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007).

Editor (with Kelly Boyd), The Victorian Studies Reader (London: Routledge, 2007). This includes our article 'Rethinking the Victorians'. Listed by Choice (the magazine of the American Library Association) as one of its 'outstanding academic titles' of the year.

'The Melodramatic Seamstress', in Beth Harris (ed.), Famine and Fashion (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), 99-114.

'Liberalism lite?' (Contribution to Roundtable discussion about Victorian Liberalism), Victorian Studies, Vol.18 no. 1 (2005) , 103-11.

'The Theatricality of the Staffordshire Figurine', Journal of Victorian Culture Vol.10 no.1 (2005), 107-14

'What is Interdisciplinary about Victorian History Today?', 19 no.1 (2005) (electronic Victorian Studies journal published by the University of London)

Conference / seminar papers

'The Victorian West End' University of Leicester Victorian Studies Centre, March 2011

'Politics, Performance and Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain', University of Lancaster, June 2011