Dr Martyn Powell
Head of Department
BA, PhD (Wales)
Contact
Email: mpp@aber.ac.uk
Office: C41
Phone: 2870
Teaching Areas
Dr Powell teaches on the First Year introductory modules and his own option module. He also teaches the core undergraduate modules of Historians and the Writing of History, General Historical Problems, Skills, methods and Sources, Dissertations and a Special Subject on British Society and the French Revolution.
Biography
Dr Martyn J. Powell, BA PhD (Wales), FRHistS, gained undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Aberystwyth and then lectured at Nottingham University before returning to Aberystwyth to take up a permanent post. He is a specialist in Irish political and social history, and his publications include Britain and Ireland in the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Empire (Palgrave, 2003), The Politics of Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Palgrave, 2005), Piss-Pots, Printers and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century Dublin (Four Courts, 2009), Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Four Courts, 2010) (edited with James Kelly), and many articles and essays. He is the general editor of the bilingual, interdisciplinary journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag, and is currently working on a study of the maiming of British soldiers by Ireland’s urban ‘houghers’. In 2012 he will be a visiting fellow at Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub, researching the early history of Irish debt.
Staff Publications
2011
- 'Jacobitism versus Scotophobia: Political Radicalism and the Press in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland' in United Islands? Multi-Lingual Radical Poetry and Song in Britain and Ireland, 1770 - 1820: Volume Two: The Cultures of Resistance (Pickering and Chatto: London, 2011)
- 'Shelburne and Ireland: Politician, Patriot, Absentee' in Nigel Aston and Clarissa Campbell Orr (eds), An Enlightenment Statesman in Whig Britain: Lord Shelburne in Context, 1737-1805 (Boydell: Woodbridge 2011)
- 'Celtic Rivalries: Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the British Empire, 1707-1801' in Huw Bowen (ed.), Wales in the British Empire (Manchester UP: Manchester, 2011)
- 'Reassessing Townshend's Irish Viceroyalty, 1767-1772: The Caldwell-Shelburne Correspondence in the John Rylands Library', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (2011)
- 'Ireland's urban houghers: moral economy and popular protest in the late eighteenth century', in Michael Brown and Sean Donlan (eds.), Law and the Irish, 1689-1848: power, privilege and practice (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2011)
2010
- with James Kelly (eds.), Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Four Courts: Dublin, 2010)
- 'Credit, Debt and Patriot Politics in Dublin, 1763-1784', Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 25 (2010)
- 'Associate for the purposes of deliverance and glory': The club-life of the Irish Volunteers' in Jennifer Kelly and R.V. Comerford (eds), Associational Culture in Ireland and Abroad (Irish Academic Press: Dublin, 2010)
- 'The Society of Free Citizens and other popular political clubs, 1749-1789' in Kelly and Powell (eds.) Clubs and Societies
- 'Beef, claret, and communication': Convivial Clubs in the Public Sphere, 1750-1800 in Kelly and Powell (eds.) Clubs and Societies
- 'Hunting clubs and societies' in Kelly and Powell (eds.) Clubs and Societies
- 'The Aldermen of Skinner's Alley: Ultra-Protestantism before the Orange Order' Kelly and Powell (eds.) Clubs and Societies
- The Volunteer Evening Post and Patriotic Print Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland' in Mark Williams and Stephen Forrest, Constructing the Past: Writing Irish History, 1600-1800 (Boydell: Woodbridge, 2010)
2009
- Piss-Pots, Printers and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century Dublin: Richard Twiss's Tour in Ireland (Four Courts: Dublin, 2009)