Professor Antony Taylor
Professor of Modern British History
Summary
I am a Professor of Modern British History at 香蕉视频. I am primarily a historian of nineteenth-century Britain. My areas of expertise are in nineteenth-century popular politics, republicanism, anti-monarchism and monarchism, the history of ideas, and metropolitan history. I have written widely in the areas of post-Chartist politics, radical historical memory, the uses of the past by politicians operating on the British political platform and in regard to the print culture of the radical underworld. I have also examined the connections between thriller writers, sensation fiction, and popular politics in a number of articles and in a recent monograph. In more current work I have begun to explore transnational exchanges between progressives in Britain, the Nordic countries and in New Zealand.
About
Antony Taylor is a modern British historian working in the field of popular politics, historical memory and commemoration, and the history of platform radicalism in Britain and the broader empire. He has written widely on the themes of British republicanism, opposition to aristocracy, and the debates surrounding the expansion of the franchise in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His most recent book 鈥楲ondon鈥檚 Burning鈥: Pulp Fiction, the Politics of Terrorism and the Destruction of the Capital in British Popular Culture, 1840-2005 (Bloomsbury, 2012), locates moral panics about terrorism and its impact in a historical context and considers the role of popular fiction in disseminating fears about political violence and state subversion. Antony Taylor has wide interests in transnationalism, migration, and comparative models of political activity. He is currently engaged in a research project on transnationalism and welfare reform that draws on collaborations with colleagues in Australia. Tony has proved instrumental in the opening up of the field of Australian Studies as an area for teaching and research in British universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
British political history, metropolitan history, history of ideas, thriller writing
Teaching
Department of Humanities
College of Social Sciences and Arts
History
BA History and BA English and History
Level 5: 鈥楾he Cold War Era鈥 and 鈥楲ondon: Literary and Historical Perspectives, 1728-1914鈥; Level 6: 鈥楢ustralia: Penal Settlement to Nation, 1788-2000鈥 and 鈥楥ommunity Engagement and Civic Activism鈥.
香蕉视频
Transnational exchanges between Britain, the Nordic countries and New Zealand
Radical historical memory and the uses of the national past
utopian communities in Britain and the wider world in the late nineteenth-century
Publications
Journal articles
Taylor, T., & Enderby, J. (2021). Cultural and Social History, 1-22.
Taylor, A.D. (2020). . Critical Survey, 32 (1/2), 59.
Taylor, A. (2018). . Historical 香蕉视频, 91 (254), 723-743.
Taylor, T. (2018). . International Journal of Regional and Local History, 13 (2), 118-133.
Taylor, A. (2016). . Labour history review, 81 (1), 77-87.
Taylor, A. (2016). . History, 101 (344), 62-83.
Taylor, A. (2013). Chinese Emigration to Australia around 1900: A Re鈥恊xamination of Australia鈥檚 鈥楪reat White Walls鈥. History Compass, 11 (2), 104-116.
Taylor, T. (2012). . Labour history review, 77 (2), 163-187.
TAYLOR, A. (2010). 鈥楾he Old Chartist鈥: Radical Veterans on the Late Nineteenth鈥 and Early Twentieth鈥怌entury Political Platform. History, 95 (320), 458-476.
Taylor, A. (2005). 'A melancholy odyssey among London public houses': radical club life and the unrespectable in mid-nineteenth-century London. Historical 香蕉视频, 78 (199), 74-95.
TAYLOR, A. (2002). SHAKESPEARE AND RADICALISM: THE USES AND ABUSES OF SHAKESPEARE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY POPULAR POLITICS. The Historical Journal, 45 (2), 357-379.
TAYLOR, A. (2001). SHORTER NOTICES. The English Historical Review, CXVI (468), 976-977.
Taylor, A., & Trainor, L. (1999). Monarchism and anti鈥恗onarchism: Anglo鈥擜ustralian comparisonsc.1870鈥1901. Social History, 24 (2), 158-173.
TAYLOR, A. (1997). 鈥楾he Best Way to Get What He Wantedrsquo;: Ernest Jones and the Boundaries of Liberalism in the Manchester Election of 1868. Parliamentary History, 16 (2), 185-204.
Taylor, A. (1995). 鈥淐ommons-Stealers鈥, 鈥淟and-Grabbers鈥 and 鈥淛erry-Builders鈥: Space, Popular Radicalism and the Politics of Public Access in London, 1848鈥1880. International Review of Social History, 40 (3), 383-407.
(1995). Notes on Contributors. International Review of Social History, 40 (3), 521.
TAYLOR, A. (1995). Reynolds's Newspaper, Opposition to Monarchy and the Radical Anti-Jubilee: Britain's Anti-Monarchist Tradition Reconsidered. Historical 香蕉视频, 68 (167), 318-337.
Taylor, A. (1995). New Views of an Old Moral World: An Appraisal of Robert Owen. Labor History, 36 (1), 88-94.
Taylor, A. (1994). Palmerston and Radicalism, 1847鈥1865. Journal of British Studies, 33 (2), 157-179.
Conference papers
Taylor, A. (2022). . In Cornelissen, C., K眉min, B., & Rospocher, M. (Eds.) Migrationa nd the European City, Trento, Italy, 18 September 2019 - 20 September 2019 (pp. 233-250). De Gruyter Oldenbourg:
Book chapters
Taylor, A. (2023). 鈥榃hatever happened to all the heroes?鈥: The monumental failure of British plebeian radicalism, c .1850鈥1920. (pp. 193-216). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc:
Taylor, T. (2018). . In Bensimon, F., Deluermoz, Q., & Jeanne, M. (Eds.) "Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth": the first international in a global perspective. (pp. 282-296). Leiden: Brill:
Taylor, A. (2015). . In Pliley, J., Kramm-Masaoka, R., & Fischer-Tine, H. (Eds.) Global Anti-Vice Activism 1890-1950: Fighting Drink, Drugs and 'Immorality'. (pp. 29-58). New York: Cambridge University Press:
Taylor, T. (2013). . In Otte, T., & Readman, P. (Eds.) By-elections in British Politics. (pp. 99-120). Woodbridge: Boydell and brewer
(2011). Evil, Barbarism and Empire. Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Taylor, T. (2010). . In Cragoe, M., & Readman, P. (Eds.) The land question in Britain, 1750-1950. (pp. 146-166). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Taylor, T. (2008). . In Humpherys, A., & James, L. (Eds.) G.W.M. Reynolds: nineteenth-century fiction, politics and the press. (pp. 99-119). Aldershot: Ashgate
(2005). London Politics, 1760鈥1914. Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Books
Taylor, T. (2012). . London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Taylor, A. (2004). Lords of Misrule. Palgrave Macmillan UK.
Other activities
2016: Chair of the Open University Revalidation Panel, BA History, the American College of Greece, Athens.
2010-16. External Adviser, Management Committee, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity and All Saints University, Leeds.
2013: External panel adviser for the Periodic Programme Review of all current Arts provision at the Open University at the Walton Hall Campus.
2013: Internal Process Panel Member and Adviser, Open University Revalidation Panel, BA History with Combined Studies, the American International University in London, Richmond.
2010-13: External Examiner, BA History, Anglia-Ruskin University, Cambridge.
2009: External Panel Member, Programme Review and Revalidation Panel, BA History, Manchester Metropolitan University
Postgraduate supervision
鈥楢 Willing Herbivore? The BBC and the Festival of Britain, 1951鈥. Director of Studies.
鈥楶opular Culture, Literature and Empire in the Inter-War Period鈥. Director of Studies.
鈥楥reating and Depicting the 鈥楬ong Konger鈥 between 1898 and 1997鈥. Director of Studies.
鈥楾he Popular Front and the British Radical Tradition鈥. Director of Studies.
鈥楾he Employment of POWs in Britain, 1944-1948鈥, 2nd Supervisor.
鈥楾ransnational British Fascism鈥 (co-supervisor with The University of Middlesborough)
鈥楩rom Sheffield to Raleigh: International Publishing Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century' (Ph.D, 2011). Director of Studies
鈥 Local Authority Healthcare in Sheffield, 1918-1948鈥 (Ph.D, 2009). Director of Studies
鈥榃ilfred Lawson: Attitudes to British Imperial and Foreign Policy鈥 (Ph.D, 2008). 2nd supervisor
鈥楬olberry: The Making of a Screenplay Placed in a Theoretical Context鈥 (M.Phil, 2003). 2nd supervisor
Media
I have written for the national press and appeared on both national television and radio discussing a range of subjects, notably opposition to the monarchy, the origins of the Labour Party reform of parliamentary institutions and militant environmental politics. .