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Professor Matthew Kelly

Professor

Department: Humanities

Matthew Kelly is Professor of Modern History in the Department of Humanities. He works on modern British history, focusing on the development of environmental policy in the post-war period, the cultural history of landscape, and the history of National Parks and nature conservation.

Matthew joined Northumbria in 2016 as a professor. Between 2006 and 2016, he was a lecturer and then associate professor at the University of Southampton, and between 2003 and 2006 he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. In 2012-13, he was a Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich and in 2016 he was a Visiting Researcher at St. John’s College, Oxford for Michaelmas term.

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Bearing Witness: Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920–2000), by Claas Kirchhelle, Kelly, M. 2024, In: The English Historical Review
  • Introduction, Ross, L., Navickas, K., Kelly, M., Anderson, B. 8 Jun 2023, New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited, Oxford, Oxford University Press
  • New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain, Ross, L., Navickas, K., Anderson, B., Kelly, M. 8 Jun 2023
  • Richard Bourke and Niamh Gallagher (eds), The Political Thought of the Irish Revolution, Kelly, M. 18 Apr 2023, In: Twentieth Century British History
  • The Line of the Pylons, Kelly, M. 1 Aug 2023, Decommissioning the Twentieth Century, Axminster, Uniformbooks
  • The Politics of the British Environment since 1945, Kelly, M. 8 Jun 2023, In: Political Quarterly
  • What Happens When Rural Modernity Ceases to be Modern?, Anderson, B., Kelly, M. 8 Jun 2023, New Lives New Landscapes Revisited, Oxford, Oxford University Press
  • Habitat Protection, Ideology and the British Nature State: The Politics of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Kelly, M. 1 Jun 2022, In: The English Historical Review
  • The Women Who Saved the English Countryside, Kelly, M. 12 Apr 2022
  • Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Kelly, M. 5 Nov 2019

  • Nicholas Pepper Preserving Thirlwall Castle: Policy, Practice, and the History of Northumberland National Park, 1956-2002 Start Date: 01/10/2020
  • Louis Holland Bonnett The Natural Habitat of Youth? The Relationship between Childhoods and the Environment in North-East England, 1985-2010 Start Date: 01/10/2020

  • Modern History DPhil September 01 2016
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2016


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