Professor Simon Newman

  • Honorary Professorial Research Fellow (History)

Research interests

The social and political history of early America, with particular reference to the American Revolution; the early modern British Atlantic world; the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the development of plantation slavery; historical and modern understandings of American history and society.

Professor Newman talks about his book A New World of Labour: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic

At present I am working on the history of enslaved people who tried to escape to freedom. With the support of the Leverhulme Trust I am engaged in a major study of enslaved people who were brought to Scotland and England in the eighteenth century, and who then escaped. I am also working on enslaved people who escaped from their owners in Jamaica and Britain’s other Caribbean colonies.

I am engaged in extending this research to broader audiences, and with my Leverhulme Research Team we have appeared on a BBC Radio Four programme about Scottish runaways, and we are acting as historical consultants for both film and theatrical productions about runaway slaves in Scotland. We are also developing a graphic novel about runaways for use in Scottish schools, as well as a minecraft education software package, again for use in schools.

Awarded The British Association for American Studies Book Prize for A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic (2013).

Publications

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2020

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051, Mundell, Christopher and Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2020) Black runaways in eighteenth-century Britain. In: Gerzina, Gretchen (ed.) Britain's Black Past. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781789621600

Bollettino, Maria Alessandra, Dziennik, Matthew P and Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2020) ‘All spirited likely young lads’: free men of colour, the defence of Jamaica, and subjecthood during the American War for Independence. Slavery and Abolition, 41(2), pp. 187-211. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2020.1714110)

2019

Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2019) Popularizing a database of resistance: freedom-seekers in eighteenth century Britain. In: Enslaved Edited Collection. Michigan State University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2019) Freedom-seeking slaves in England and Scotland, 1700-1780. English Historical Review, 134(570), pp. 1136-1168. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cez292)

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2019) Escaping enslavement in eighteenth-century Scotland. In: von Mallinckrodt, Rebekka (ed.) Negotiating Status and Scope of Action: Interrelations between Slavery and Other Forms of Dependency in Early Modern Europe. Brill: Leiden. (In Press)

Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2019) Breaking free: digital history and escaping from slavery. William and Mary Quarterly, 76(1), pp. 33-40.

2018

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 and Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2018) Slavery, abolition and the University of Glasgow. Report and recommendations of the University of Glasgow History of Slavery Steering Committee. Other. University of Glasgow.

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2018) Disney’s American revolution. Journal of American Studies, 52(3), pp. 682-715. (doi: 10.1017/S0021875817000391)

Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2018) Hidden in plain sight: Long-term escaped slaves in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Jamaica. William and Mary Quarterly,

2017

Wulf, Karin and Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2017) Missing the target: the UK scholarly communications license. [Website]

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2017) Rethinking runaways in the British Atlantic world: Britain, the Caribbean, West Africa and North America. Slavery and Abolition, 38(1), pp. 49-75. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2016.1220582)

2016

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2016) Societies remove cost barrier to publication for young historians. Research Fortnight(476), p. 22.

Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2016) A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia. ISBN 9780812223620

2015

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2015) In great slavery and bondage; white labor and the development of plantation slavery in British America. In: Gallup-Diaz, Ignacio, Shankman, Andrew J., Silverman, David and Murrin, John M. (eds.) Anglicizing Americans: Empire, Revolution, Republic. Series: Early American studies. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, pp. 59-82. ISBN 9780812246988

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2015) "In great slavery and bondage": white labor and the development of plantation slavery in British America. In: Gallup-Diaz, Ignacio, Shankman, Andrew and Silverman, David J. (eds.) Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic. Series: Early American Studies. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, pp. 59-82. ISBN 9780812246988

2014

Burnard, Trevor, Nagler, Jörg, Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 and Živojinović, Dragan (2014) Teaching in Europe and researching in the United States. American Historical Review, 119(3), pp. 771-779. (doi: 10.1093/ahr/119.3.771)

2013

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 and Onuf, Peter S. (Eds.) (2013) Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions. University of Virginia Press: Charlottesville, VA. ISBN 9780813934761

Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778, Deason, M., Pitsiladis, Y., Salas, A. and Macaulay, V. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9084-2700 (2013) The West African ethnicity of the enslaved in Jamaica. Slavery and Abolition, 34(3), pp. 376-400. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2012.734054)

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2013) A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic. Series: Early modern Americas. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 9780812245196

Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2013) Paine, Jefferson, and the strange career of revolutionary radicalism in early national America. In: Newman, S. and Onuf, P. (eds.) Thomas Paine and the Age of Revolutions. University of Virginia Press: Charlottesville, Virginia.

2012

DEASON, M., Salas, A., Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778, Macaulay, V.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9084-2700, Morrison, E.Y. and Pitsiladis, Y.P. (2012) Interdisciplinary approach to the demography of Jamaica. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12(24), (doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-24)

Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 and Smith, B. (2012) Incarcerated innocents: inmates, conditions, and survival strategies in Philadelphia's almshouse and jail. In: Tarter, M.L. and Bell, R. (eds.) Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America. University of Georgia Press: Athens, Georgia, USA, pp. 60-84. ISBN 9780820341194

2011

Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2011) Agli amici dei Diritti dell’Uomo: Thomas Paine e le origini della politica Americana. In: Sioli, M. and Battistini, M. (eds.) L'età di Thomas Paine: Dal Senso Comune alle Libertà Civili Americane. FrancoAngeli: Milan, Italy, pp. 113-123. ISBN 9788856840353

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2011) La Révolution française vue de loin: la célébration de Valmy à Boston, en janvier 1793. Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 58(1), pp. 80-99.

2010

Elliott, J., Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 and McFarlane, A. (2010) Revolutions! U.S. and Spanish-American Independence Movements Compared. British Library: London, UK. ISBN 071234456X

2009

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2009) Benjamin Franklin and the leather-apron men: the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Journal of American Studies, 43(2), pp. 161-175. (doi: 10.1017/S0021875809990089)

Chesterton, G. (2009) What I Saw in America. [Scholarly Editions]

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2009) Introduction. In: What I Saw in America [new ed.]. Series: Anthem popular American history. Anthem Press: London, UK. ISBN 9781843313007

2008

Newman, S.P. (2008) Losing the faith: British historians and the last best hope. Comparative American Studies, 6(2), pp. 161-178.

Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2008) A new world: England's first view of America. William and Mary Quarterly, 65(1), pp. 187-191.

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2008) "Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?": myth and meaning in American representations of the Vietnam war. American Studies Today,

Newman, S.P. (2008) Making sense of atlantic world histories: a British perspective. Nuevo Mundo: Mundos Nuevos,

Newman, S.P. (2008) Theorizing class in Glasgow and the Atlantic world. In: Middleton, S. and Smith, B.G. (eds.) Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World. Series: Early American studies. University of Pennsylvania Press: Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 16-34. ISBN 9780812240634

2007

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2007) One nation under God: making historical sense of evangelical protestantism in contemporary American politics. Journal of American Studies, 41(3), pp. 581-597. (doi: 10.1017/S0021875807004008)

2006

Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2006) Brave new worlds: beyond the English Atlantic. William and Mary Quarterly, 63(2), pp. 380-384.

Newman, S.P. (Ed.) (2006) Europe's American Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9781403989970

Newman, S.P. (2006) British historians and the changing significance of the American revolution. In: Newman, S.P. (ed.) Europe's American Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK, pp. 72-93. ISBN 9781403989970

2005

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2005) "The friends of equality and of the French Revolution": toasts and popular opposition to George Washington's foreign policy. In: Rossignol, M.J. and Bergamasco, L. (eds.) L'Amerique: des Colonies aux Republiques: les Cahiers Charles V. Institut d'Etudes Anglophones, pp. 131-162. ISBN 2902937393

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2005) The protestant republic: evangelicalism and American political life. In: Groundwork: Space and Place in American Cultures: Annual conference of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 3-6 Nov 2005,

2004

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2004) Dead bodies: poverty and death in early national Philadelphia. In: Smith, B.G. (ed.) Down and Out in Early America. Pennsylvania State University Press: Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 41-62. ISBN 9780271023168

2003

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2003) Embodied History: the Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia. Series: Early American studies. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, PA.. ISBN 0812218485

2002

Pencak, W., Dennis, M. and Newman, S.P. (Eds.) (2002) Riot and Revelry in Early America. Pennsylvania State University Press: Pennsylvania, USA. ISBN 9780271021416

Branson, S. and Newman, S.P. (2002) American women and the French revolution: gender and partisan festive culture in the early Republic. In: Pencak, W., Dennis, M. and Newman, S.P. (eds.) Riot and Revelry in Early America. Pennsylvania State University Press: Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 229-254. ISBN 9780271021416

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2002) Writing the history of the American revolution. In: Stokes, M. (ed.) The State of U.S. History. Berg: Oxford, UK, pp. 23-44. ISBN 9781859735961

2001

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2001) American political culture and the French and Haitian revolutions: Nathaniel Cutting and the Jefferson republicans. In: Geggus, D.P. (ed.) The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. Series: The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world. University of South Carolina: Columbia, USA, pp. 72-89. ISBN 9781570034169

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2001) American political culture and the French and Haitian Revolutions: Nathaniel Cutting and the Jeffersonian Republicans. In: Geggus, D.P. (ed.) The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. University of South Carolina Press: Columbia, S.C., pp. 72-89. ISBN 1570034168

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Number of items: 46.

Articles

Bollettino, Maria Alessandra, Dziennik, Matthew P and Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2020) ‘All spirited likely young lads’: free men of colour, the defence of Jamaica, and subjecthood during the American War for Independence. Slavery and Abolition, 41(2), pp. 187-211. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2020.1714110)

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2019) Freedom-seeking slaves in England and Scotland, 1700-1780. English Historical Review, 134(570), pp. 1136-1168. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cez292)

Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2019) Breaking free: digital history and escaping from slavery. William and Mary Quarterly, 76(1), pp. 33-40.

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2018) Disney’s American revolution. Journal of American Studies, 52(3), pp. 682-715. (doi: 10.1017/S0021875817000391)

Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2018) Hidden in plain sight: Long-term escaped slaves in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Jamaica. William and Mary Quarterly,

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2017) Rethinking runaways in the British Atlantic world: Britain, the Caribbean, West Africa and North America. Slavery and Abolition, 38(1), pp. 49-75. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2016.1220582)

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2016) Societies remove cost barrier to publication for young historians. Research Fortnight(476), p. 22.

Burnard, Trevor, Nagler, Jörg, Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 and Živojinović, Dragan (2014) Teaching in Europe and researching in the United States. American Historical Review, 119(3), pp. 771-779. (doi: 10.1093/ahr/119.3.771)

Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778, Deason, M., Pitsiladis, Y., Salas, A. and Macaulay, V. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9084-2700 (2013) The West African ethnicity of the enslaved in Jamaica. Slavery and Abolition, 34(3), pp. 376-400. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2012.734054)

DEASON, M., Salas, A., Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778, Macaulay, V.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9084-2700, Morrison, E.Y. and Pitsiladis, Y.P. (2012) Interdisciplinary approach to the demography of Jamaica. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12(24), (doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-24)

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2011) La Révolution française vue de loin: la célébration de Valmy à Boston, en janvier 1793. Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 58(1), pp. 80-99.

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2009) Benjamin Franklin and the leather-apron men: the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Journal of American Studies, 43(2), pp. 161-175. (doi: 10.1017/S0021875809990089)

Newman, S.P. (2008) Losing the faith: British historians and the last best hope. Comparative American Studies, 6(2), pp. 161-178.

Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2008) A new world: England's first view of America. William and Mary Quarterly, 65(1), pp. 187-191.

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2008) "Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?": myth and meaning in American representations of the Vietnam war. American Studies Today,

Newman, S.P. (2008) Making sense of atlantic world histories: a British perspective. Nuevo Mundo: Mundos Nuevos,

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2007) One nation under God: making historical sense of evangelical protestantism in contemporary American politics. Journal of American Studies, 41(3), pp. 581-597. (doi: 10.1017/S0021875807004008)

Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2006) Brave new worlds: beyond the English Atlantic. William and Mary Quarterly, 63(2), pp. 380-384.

Books

Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2016) A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia. ISBN 9780812223620

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2013) A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic. Series: Early modern Americas. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 9780812245196

Elliott, J., Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 and McFarlane, A. (2010) Revolutions! U.S. and Spanish-American Independence Movements Compared. British Library: London, UK. ISBN 071234456X

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2003) Embodied History: the Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia. Series: Early American studies. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, PA.. ISBN 0812218485

Book Sections

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051, Mundell, Christopher and Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2020) Black runaways in eighteenth-century Britain. In: Gerzina, Gretchen (ed.) Britain's Black Past. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781789621600

Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2019) Popularizing a database of resistance: freedom-seekers in eighteenth century Britain. In: Enslaved Edited Collection. Michigan State University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2019) Escaping enslavement in eighteenth-century Scotland. In: von Mallinckrodt, Rebekka (ed.) Negotiating Status and Scope of Action: Interrelations between Slavery and Other Forms of Dependency in Early Modern Europe. Brill: Leiden. (In Press)

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2015) In great slavery and bondage; white labor and the development of plantation slavery in British America. In: Gallup-Diaz, Ignacio, Shankman, Andrew J., Silverman, David and Murrin, John M. (eds.) Anglicizing Americans: Empire, Revolution, Republic. Series: Early American studies. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, pp. 59-82. ISBN 9780812246988

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2015) "In great slavery and bondage": white labor and the development of plantation slavery in British America. In: Gallup-Diaz, Ignacio, Shankman, Andrew and Silverman, David J. (eds.) Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic. Series: Early American Studies. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, pp. 59-82. ISBN 9780812246988

Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2013) Paine, Jefferson, and the strange career of revolutionary radicalism in early national America. In: Newman, S. and Onuf, P. (eds.) Thomas Paine and the Age of Revolutions. University of Virginia Press: Charlottesville, Virginia.

Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 and Smith, B. (2012) Incarcerated innocents: inmates, conditions, and survival strategies in Philadelphia's almshouse and jail. In: Tarter, M.L. and Bell, R. (eds.) Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America. University of Georgia Press: Athens, Georgia, USA, pp. 60-84. ISBN 9780820341194

Newman, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2011) Agli amici dei Diritti dell’Uomo: Thomas Paine e le origini della politica Americana. In: Sioli, M. and Battistini, M. (eds.) L'età di Thomas Paine: Dal Senso Comune alle Libertà Civili Americane. FrancoAngeli: Milan, Italy, pp. 113-123. ISBN 9788856840353

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2009) Introduction. In: What I Saw in America [new ed.]. Series: Anthem popular American history. Anthem Press: London, UK. ISBN 9781843313007

Newman, S.P. (2008) Theorizing class in Glasgow and the Atlantic world. In: Middleton, S. and Smith, B.G. (eds.) Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World. Series: Early American studies. University of Pennsylvania Press: Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 16-34. ISBN 9780812240634

Newman, S.P. (2006) British historians and the changing significance of the American revolution. In: Newman, S.P. (ed.) Europe's American Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK, pp. 72-93. ISBN 9781403989970

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2005) "The friends of equality and of the French Revolution": toasts and popular opposition to George Washington's foreign policy. In: Rossignol, M.J. and Bergamasco, L. (eds.) L'Amerique: des Colonies aux Republiques: les Cahiers Charles V. Institut d'Etudes Anglophones, pp. 131-162. ISBN 2902937393

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2004) Dead bodies: poverty and death in early national Philadelphia. In: Smith, B.G. (ed.) Down and Out in Early America. Pennsylvania State University Press: Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 41-62. ISBN 9780271023168

Branson, S. and Newman, S.P. (2002) American women and the French revolution: gender and partisan festive culture in the early Republic. In: Pencak, W., Dennis, M. and Newman, S.P. (eds.) Riot and Revelry in Early America. Pennsylvania State University Press: Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 229-254. ISBN 9780271021416

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2002) Writing the history of the American revolution. In: Stokes, M. (ed.) The State of U.S. History. Berg: Oxford, UK, pp. 23-44. ISBN 9781859735961

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2001) American political culture and the French and Haitian revolutions: Nathaniel Cutting and the Jefferson republicans. In: Geggus, D.P. (ed.) The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. Series: The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world. University of South Carolina: Columbia, USA, pp. 72-89. ISBN 9781570034169

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2001) American political culture and the French and Haitian Revolutions: Nathaniel Cutting and the Jeffersonian Republicans. In: Geggus, D.P. (ed.) The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. University of South Carolina Press: Columbia, S.C., pp. 72-89. ISBN 1570034168

Edited Books

Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 and Onuf, Peter S. (Eds.) (2013) Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions. University of Virginia Press: Charlottesville, VA. ISBN 9780813934761

Newman, S.P. (Ed.) (2006) Europe's American Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9781403989970

Pencak, W., Dennis, M. and Newman, S.P. (Eds.) (2002) Riot and Revelry in Early America. Pennsylvania State University Press: Pennsylvania, USA. ISBN 9780271021416

Scholarly Editions

Chesterton, G. (2009) What I Saw in America. [Scholarly Editions]

Research Reports or Papers

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 and Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2018) Slavery, abolition and the University of Glasgow. Report and recommendations of the University of Glasgow History of Slavery Steering Committee. Other. University of Glasgow.

Conference Proceedings

Newman, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2005) The protestant republic: evangelicalism and American political life. In: Groundwork: Space and Place in American Cultures: Annual conference of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 3-6 Nov 2005,

Website

Wulf, Karin and Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2017) Missing the target: the UK scholarly communications license. [Website]

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Grants

Research grants, 2005-present

  • 2005  British Academy Research Readership, 2005-2007 - £58,828.00
  • 2005  Barra Foundation International Fellowship($3,000) - £1,856.00
  • Library Company of Philadelphia
  • 2005  Nuffield Foundation, Social Sciences Small Grant - £7,028.00
  • 2005  Carnegie Trust Research Grant - £1,670.00
  • 2006  Leverhulme Trust, Research Fellowship - £1,872.00
  • 2006  British Academy, Larger Research Grant - £34,418.00
  • 2006  Early American Economy and Society Postdoctoral Award - £12,366.00
  • Library Company of Philadelphia - $20,000 (Declined)
  • 2006  John Carter Brown Library, Research Fellowship, Brown - £22,283.00
  • University - $36,000 (Declined)
  • 2007  Embassy of the United States, Research Grant - £1,500.00
  • 2007  Visiting Fellowship, Eccles Centre, British Library - £2,000.00
  • 2009  Research Workshop Award, Royal Society of Edinburgh - £8,500.00
  • 2010  Leverhulme Trust, Major Research Fellowship (2010-12) - £86,296.00
  • 2011  Coca Cola Residential Fellowship, Center for Jefferson - £3,713.00
  • Studies, Monticello - $6,000
  • July-September 2011  Research Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. - $6,000
  • 2014  Research Grant, Carnegie Trust - £2,500

  • 2014  Project Grant, Leverhulme Trust, 'Runaway Slaves in Britain: Bondage, Freedom and Race in the Eighteenth Century' - £291,327

TOTAL: £540,157

Supervision

  • Sam Maddra, ‘“Hostiles”: Lakota Ghost Dancers and the 1891/92 Tour of Britain by Buffalo Bill's Wild West’ (PhD, 2003). Bradley Jones, ‘The American Revolution and the Popular Political Culture of Loyalism in the British Atlantic World’ (PhD, 2006)
  • Jeffrey Farley, ‘Making America's music: Jazz history and the Jazz Preservation Act’ (PhD, 2008).
  • Jackie Cahif, ‘"She supposes herself cured": Almshouse women, prostitution and venereal disease in Early National Philadelphia’ (Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 Award).
  • Felicity Donohoe, ‘Native North American Women's Relations with European Men in the Eighteenth Century’ (Carnegie Trust Three Year PhD Scholarship). Currently holding a Dissertation Fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Graeme Thomson, ‘Inheriting a Legacy; The Influence of the Founding Era on American Political Discourse.’ (AHRC Block Grant Three Year Award).

Currently supervising

  • Stephen Mullen, ‘The Glasgow West India Interest and Compensation for Slaves, 1790-1850.’ (Economic and Social Research Council, 1+3 Award).
  • Nicole Cassie,'Coming Home: the gendered experienced of American medical personnel who served in the Vietnam War'

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

  • From Pocahontas to Post-Feminism: Women and Gender in American History
  • The Vietnam War in American History and Culture
  • The American Revolution (Special Subject)
  • The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Origins of Plantation Slavery (Special Subject)
  • The Early American Republic

Postgraduate courses

  • American Studies Core Course A, and Core Course B
  • American Society and Culture Between the World Wars
  • The Vietnam War in American History and Culture

Professor Simon Newman