Mr Matthew Firth

Matthew is a Research Associate of the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, working as part of the Mapping Service and Transition project connected with the current Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.

Matthew is also PhD graduand of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, whose doctoral research focused cultural memory, historical narrative, and Anglo-Scandinavian acculturation in the tenth-thirteenth centuries. With research specialities in the history of early medieval England and in Scandinavian saga literature, he has published numerous articles on various aspects of society and culture in England and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages, and their intersections. He is currently working on his first monograph, a biographical study of English queens-consort in the years 850-1000, scheduled for publication the Routledge Lives of Royal Women series.

Matthew is the current editor of Cerae Journal, an assistant editor of the Brepols published series East Central Europe, 476–1795, the reviews editor for the Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association (AEMA), and an AEMA committee member..

Most recent publications:

Matthew Firth, 'On the Dating of the Norse Siege of Chester', Notes and Queries 69 (no. 1, 2022), 1-4.

Matthew Firth, 'Deconstructing the Female Antagonist of the Coronation Scandal in B’s Vita Dunstani', English Studies 103 (no. 4, 2022), 527-546.

Matthew Firth, 'The Character of the Treacherous Woman in the passiones of Early Medieval English Royal Martyrs,' Royal Studies Journal 7 (no. 1, 2020), 1-21.