Our specialisms include:

• questions of faith and religion in poetry and the novel
• industry and the idea of progress
• Empire
• the Anglo-American periodical in high and popular culture
• book history
• slavery and abolitionism
• the travelogue
• the politics of the child and children's literature
• radicalism
• genealogies of feminism and economics
• Victorian poetry
• the Victorian novel
• the visual arts.

19th-century and Victorian archives in Newcastle include the Special Collections in the University's Robinson Library, which has a major Nineteenth-Century Novel collection, and the Tyne and Wear Archives. We also work with the Lit and Phil, which has extensive eighteenth and nineteenth-century holdings.