Dave Steele
@drdavesteele.bsky.social
HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed. & Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Look forward to giving my paper on Rev. Arthur Wade
Mark Crail@markcrail.bsky.social · 4d agoTickets are now available for Chartism Day 2026. The £12 ticket price includes refreshments and a light buffet lunch (plus all the Chartism you can eat). All are welcome. #C19th #History #Chartism www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
At last - Routledge have set a publication date for my book on their website:
@socialhistsoc.bsky.social @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social @historylabplus.bsky.social Mike Reeves giving his paper on smoking
Back at Lancaster University to give my Social History Society Conference paper on New Palace Yard 54 years after coming here for an interview and failing to get a place.
I’ll be there - giving a paper on nineteenth century meetings in New Palace Yard
History Lab Plus@historylabplus.bsky.social · last mo.Social History Society 50th Anniversary Conference 1-3 July 2026 Lancaster University History Lab Plus will have a stand at this major conference. Please come and visit us. socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
Great new network of Independent Historians
INDY-HIST@indy-hist.bsky.social · last mo.This looks interesting. I would have attended but I will be giving a conference paper In Lancaster that day. I wonder if any of you from London and the south would like to go? Please contact them via their website or social media: independenthistoriansnetwork-wulpv.wordpress.com
Exciting new book series. Just what I’ve been waiting for
Katrina Navickas@katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 4mo agoI'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...
Just got this Henry Hunt medal celebrating his election as MP for Preston, Dec. 24 1830.
REMINDER ABOUT THURSDAY'S INDY-HIST MEETING Thurs. 16 April 6pm on Zoom Opportunity to discuss what we want to say to RHS council members in May. Meeting Link. www.bit.ly/INDY-HIST-ZOOM Full link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8946886836... Meeting ID: 894 6886 8369 Passcode: 920307
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Submitted my edited book manuscript to the publishers. Pheww! Now the long wait begins…
Looking forward to this meeting . . .
INDY-HIST@indy-hist.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe RHS have recognised the challenges facing Independent Historians by inviting us to meet them on 1 May at Warwick. To let them know how they can help us, we have set up a pre-meeting discussion: Thurs. 16 April 6pm on Zoom Meeting Link. www.bit.ly/INDY-HIST-ZOOM All welcome.
In this Open Access article, @drdavesteele.bsky.social explores bodily and sensory experiences in the crowds formed by the reform movement from 1816-1848, offering new perspectives on the lived experience of popular politics and the mass platform. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48*
This article considers the roles that the body and the senses played in shaping the dynamics of 19th-century reform crowds in Britain. Acoustics, terrain, timing, weather and corporeal issues of hung...
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Even better! All articles are now Open Access until June 30
Thanks Katrina. I’m in good company in this collection, available: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17500206...
Katrina Navickas@katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 5mo agoVery much enjoying seeing @drdavesteele.bsky.social 's research on "what it was actually like to be in a 19th century demo" in print, finally. Such vital work. Much still applies today.
I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period
Travelling Activists, Radical Hospitality and the Intimate History of Socialist Organising in Britain, c.1880–1914*
This article considers the political lecture tour, and particularly the travelling socialist caravan tours organised by Clarion socialists at the end of the 19th century, to argue that, for socialist...
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My article ‘The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48’ has been published in Parliamentary History Journal 45-1 (2026) Thanks to Naomi Lloyd-Jones for a great job editing Read/download here (open source): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48*
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My article on extra-parliamentary activity in New Palace Yard is featured today on the Society for the Study of Labour History’s series on places of significance in labour history . . .
Society for the Study of Labour History@sslh.bsky.social · 8mo agoContinuing our series on places of significance in labour history, @drdavesteele.bsky.social recalls the long history of extra-parliamentary activity in New Palace Yard, on Parliament’s doorstep. sslh.org.uk/2025/12/17/n...
Leamington Peace Festival is coming back but we need your help. Can you donate to our crowdfunder? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/peace-fest...
Leamington Peace Festival Reboot
Seed fundraising round
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Apparently it’s 100 years since the introduction of the Photobooth. In a bizarre twist it was 50 years ago that I took this Photobooth selfie complete with roll up and fag-burn on my Rupert-the-bear scarf. What was I thinking?
Looking forward to tomorrow's intriguing session on a collaborative project to improve the digitisation of handwritten wills. Join us at 5pm Weds. Free registration : www.bit.ly/dig-cit-sci
Digitization & citizen science
Warwick History ‘Post-Doc’ club present: DIGITIZATION & CITIZEN SCIENCE – Inviting collaborative research to transcribe handwriting
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Warwick History Post-Doc Club@post-doc-club.bsky.social · 10mo agoDIGITIZATION & CITIZEN SCIENCE Inviting collaborative research to transcribe handwriting Weds 22 Oct 5pm Harry Smith & Emily Vine of the Material Culture of Wills, 1540-1790 project at the University of Exeter All welcome (not restricted to post-docs). Register free: www.bit.ly/dig-cit-sci
