Faculty Member, History
University of Cambridge, King's College
Assistant Tutor and Director of Studies in History
King's College
About
I am a historian of modern Ireland, Britain and the British Empire. My published research has focused on the Irish in the British Empire, particularly on connections between nationalists in Ireland and India in the late nineteenth century. I teach or have taught British, Irish, European, and comparative imperial history.
My first book, Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire, a biography of the Irish politician Alfred Webb, explains how Irish and Indian nationalists met in late-Victorian London and pursued a multi-cultural politics of cooperation. The monograph contextualises these events in the history of Irish nationalism and also contributes to our understanding of the 'Empire at home' and the history of multicultural Britain.
I have recently completed a critical edition of the political and travel memoir of J.F.X. O’Brien, a nineteenth-century Irish nationalist, and have also published on the history of printing and print culture.
I am now working on a major project on social activism and associational culture in late-Victorian London. This research, which has received funding from the British Academy, will document and analyse how individuals from British colonies used clubs and societies to gain a socio-political foothold in Britain.
