Prof 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.

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Key Publications

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Richard Bourke and Niamh Gallagher (eds), The Political Thought of the Irish Revolution, Kelly, M. 18 Apr 2023, In: Twentieth Century British History
The Politics of the British Environment since 1945, Kelly, M. 8 Jun 2023, In: Political Quarterly
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
Radical Nationalisms, 1882-1916, Kelly, M. 2018, The Cambridge History of Ireland, University of Cambridge
The Thames Barrier: climate change, shipping and the transition to a new envirotechnical regime, Kelly, M. Apr 2018, Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain, UCL IOE Press
Conventional thinking and the fragile birth of the Nature State in post-war Britain, Kelly, M. 31 May 2017, The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation, Abingdon, Taylor & Francis
The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation, Graf von Hardenberg, W., Kelly, M., Leal, C., Wakild, E. 12 Jun 2017
Nationalisms, Kelly, M. 12 Jan 2016, The Princeton History of Modern Ireland, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press

PGR Supervision

Bethany Wyatt Cultures of Care in Britain’s Country House Hospitals, 1914-1919 Start Date: 01/10/2022
Laura Littlefair Recontextualising the Deindustrialised Railway Town - Communities, Stakeholders, and Museum Practice at Locomotion, Shildon, 1984-2025 Start Date: 01/10/2022
Louis Holland Bonnett The Natural Habitat of Youth? The Relationship between Childhoods and the Environment in North-East England, 1980-2010 Start Date: 01/10/2020
Nicholas Pepper Northumberland National Park: Governmentality and the Recent and Not-So-Recent History of Thirlwall Castle. Start Date: 01/10/2020
Ciaran Johnson The Railways and the Making of Upland Britain: the Lifecycle of an Envirotechnical Regime Start Date: 01/10/2018 End Date: 23/06/2023

Qualifications

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

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