• Historian of Modern British History & Head of Online Learning, Aberystwyth University

Dr Callum D. Smith is a first-generation, working-class, academic historian of Modern British Politics, Society and Culture. He was previously a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bristol, and has held a number of research and teaching positions at the universities of Bristol, Bath, and Aberystwyth. He is currently a Researcher and Head of Online Learning at Aberystwyth University, and he completed his AHRC SWW DTP postdoctoral fellowship, and PhD studentship at the University of Bristol.

Dr Smith has particular research interests in: Parliamentary History; Visual Culture and Caricature; Radicalism; Sociability; Drinking Studies; Associational Culture; Electoral Culture; Lower-order and Aristocratic Culture; Health Humanities; and The Foxite Whigs.

Recent publications include, a monograph exploring the intricate relationship between radicalism and sociability in late Georgian parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics, focusing on the Foxite-Whig faction - Radical Sociability. He is currently undertaking a major interdisciplinary project exploring the relationship between alcohol, politics, and the body in the late eighteenth century. This research will form the basis of his second contracted monograph with Palgrave Macmillan (scheduled for a 2026 release).

• –present Historian of Modern British History & Head of Online Learning, Aberystwyth University

• 2022 University of Bristol, PhD

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