I am an intellectual and cultural historian of Britain, Ireland, and France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These themes are explored in my PhD thesis ‘Titans of the Early World: Celtic Ideas and National Thought in Britain, Ireland, and France, 1700-1900’. I studied History at Durham University (BA) and King’s College London (MA) before beginning my PhD at the LSE.
Thesis title
'''The Titan of the Early World': Celtic Ideas and National Thought in Britain, Ireland and France, 1700-1900"
Dr Ian Stewart graduated from the PhD programme at the end of 2017.
Expertise
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‘The Key to all Celtologies: The Early-Modern History of the Celtic Language(s) and the Origins of Celtic Studies’, Oxford Celtic Studies Seminar, University of Oxford, UK, 25 February 2018 [Invited Speaker]
‘Celtomanie?: Re-historicising the Celtic past in late eighteenth-century France’, France, Europe and the World: Society for the Study of French History 31stAnnual Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, 26 June 2017
‘In defence of antiquarianism: reflections on some long-lost letters’, Paper Trails: Materials, Serendipity, and the Social Life of Archives, University College London, UK, 19 June 2017
‘Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: The Historical Study of Language in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, Workshop in the History of Political Thought, Queen Mary University of London, UK, 16 June 2017 [Invited Speaker]
‘The Celts, Scholarship, and National Ideas, c. 1500-1900’, 27thConference, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthony D. Smith and the Future of Nationalism: Ethnicity, Religion and Culture, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, 28 April 2017
'The Celts, their language, and the politics of the past in early modern historical thought', Early Career Seminar in the History of Political Ideas, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK, 1 February 2017 [Invited Speaker]
‘Pageantry and Pan-Celticism, 1838-1907’, History in the Limelight: dramatising the past, c. 1850 to the present, University College London, UK, 9 September 2016
‘Europa Celticaand the decline of a common European descent, c.1750-1812’, Rethinking Europe in Intellectual History, University of Crete, Greece, 3 May 2016
‘E.E. Fournier d’Albe and scientific monism in the fin-de-siècle’, The Modern British History Seminar, The Institute of Historical Research, London, 26 November 2015
‘A Flash in the Pan-(Nationalisms) c. 1900’, Nations and Nationalism: Past, Present and Future,University College Dublin, Ireland, 11 June 2015
‘Celticism and Four Nations History, c. 1860-1920’, Four Nations History Conference, King’s College London, UK, 11 February 2015
