Dr Callum Smith

PhD, University of Bristol

My current research includes, a major interdisciplinary project exploring the relationship between alcohol, politics, and the body in the late eighteenth century. A chapter entitled ‘Getting a Little “Bosky”: The Foxite Whigs, Political Drinking and Visual Culture’, for a Palgrave collection entitled: Political Drinking In Britain, Ireland, and Northern Europe, 1700-1850 (in-press) and edited by Martyn Powell (Bristol) and Rémy Duthille (Université Bordeaux Montaigne); a chapter for a Boydell collection edited by Elaine Chalus (Liverpool) and Matthew Grenby (Newcastle) in association with the major AHRC project Eighteenth Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture (ECPPEC), exploring the role and depiction of electoral ‘treating’ during parliamentary elections (in-press); and a chapter for an interdisciplinary Medical Humanities collection exploring the impact and depiction of alcohol on the life and career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (in-preparation). Other works include articles exploring the career, lives, and output of the artists Thomas Rowlandson (European Comic Art), William Dent, and James Sayers. The latter is supported by a Royal Historical Society ECR Grant.