Callum Smith

Dr. Callum Smith is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bristol, specializing in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British and European political, social, and cultural history with emphasis on visual culture, caricature, and the Foxite Whigs.

His educational qualifications include a PhD from the University of Bristol (2022) titled 'Radical Socialites, or Sociable Radicals? The Foxite Whigs in caricature, 1783-1806', an MA from Aberystwyth University (2018) on Thomas Rowlandson's political caricatures, and a BA from Aberystwyth University (2017) examining William Dent's depictions of Charles James Fox.

Smith's research spans Parliamentary History, Visual Culture and Caricature, Radicalism, Sociability, Drinking Studies, Associational Culture, Electoral Culture, Lower-order and Aristocratic Culture, Health Humanities, and Foxite Whigs. He employs interdisciplinary frameworks like 'Insular' and 'Porous' sociability to analyze intersections of politics, culture, and the body, particularly alcohol's role in political discourse during the late eighteenth century.

His recent publications reveal consistent focus on political caricature's function in shaping radical discourse, with recurring themes of Foxite drinking culture, electoral 'treating', and visual representations of radicalism across British political factions.

Scientific awards and grants include:

• AHRC South, West & Wales DTP Postdoctoral Fellowship
• AHRC South, West & Wales DTP funded PhD
• Royal Historical Society ECR Grant

Smith has secured competitive research funding including AHRC postdoctoral support for monograph development and RHS grants for studies on political caricaturists. His work is disseminated through the History of Parliament Trust, AHRC ECPPEC project, Institute of Historical Research, and international Drinking Studies Network.

His research operates within the University of Bristol's Faculty of Arts ecosystem, leveraging collaborations with the Landau-Paris Symposia on the Eighteenth Century and interdisciplinary Medical Humanities initiatives.