Callum Smith

Callum Smith is the Head of Aber Online at Aberystwyth University, leading the planning and development of online learning programs in partnership with Higher Education Partners. Academically, he is a first-generation political, social, and cultural historian specializing in Britain and Europe (18th-19th centuries), with research foci on Parliamentary History, Visual Culture, Radicalism, Sociability, Drinking Studies, and Health Humanities.

• Key projects include an interdisciplinary study on alcohol, politics, and the body in the late 18th century
• Contributing chapters to Political Drinking In Britain, Ireland, and Northern Europe, 1700-1850 (Palgrave) and ECPPEC-related publications
• Research on artists like Thomas Rowlandson and James Sayers

His work intersects with the AHRC-funded Eighteenth Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) project, focusing on electoral 'treating' and political caricature.

Scientific Awards

• Royal Historical Society ECR Grant