Henry Miller
Research Fellow
Department of History
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Henry Miller was Research Fellow on the History of Parliament Trust’s 1832-1868 House of Commons project (2009-13) and then Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British History at the University of Manchester (2013-16), where he taught on modern British social, cultural and economic history, 1750-2000. He completed my doctoral research at Queen Mary, University of London.
Research Interest
My main research interests are nineteenth century politics and culture in Britain. My first book, Politics personified: portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, 1830-1880 (Manchester University Press, 2015), explores the extraordinary proliferation and remarkable popularity of the political likeness in a crucial period of political modernisation and media development. It examines a diverse range of contemporary photographs, engraved portraits, cartoons and paintings, as well as material culture, studying how they shaped public perceptions of politics and politicians.
Publications
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Miller, Henry (2009). ‘The Problem with Punch’. Historical Research 82: 285-302.
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Miller, Henry (2009). ‘John Leech and the Shaping of the Victorian Cartoon: The Context of Respectability’. Victorian Periodicals Review 42: 267-291.
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Miller, Henry (2012). ‘Radicals, Tories or Monomaniacs?: The Birmingham Currency Reformers in the House of Commons, 1832-1867’. Parliamentary History 31: 354-377.
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Miller, Henry (2012). ‘Popular Petitioning and the Corn Laws, 1833-1846’. English Historical Review 127: 882-919.
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Miller, Henry (2017). Free Trade and Print Culture: Political Communication in Early Nineteenth-Century England. Cultural and Social History 14(1): 35-54.
