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Dr Simon Macdonald

Teaching Fellow in Early Modern European History   

Office: 114, 26 Gordon Square 

Office hour: Thursdays 11-12, and by appointment.

External phone:  020 7679 2075

Internal phone: 32075

E-mail: simon.macdonald@ucl.ac.uk 

Simon Macdonald specialises in the history of eighteenth-century Europe, with particular reference to interchange between Britain and the Continent. His research focuses on population exchange, transnational groups, and their material traces; he is currently working on a book project titled French Connections: British Expatriates in Eighteenth-Century France.

His first post in the Department was as a Research Associate at the Centre for Transnational History, where he co-convenes, with Dr Dina Gusejnova, the Centre’s working group on the history of cosmopolitanism. Before coming to UCL, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, and a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome; he has also held visiting fellowships at Yale and at McGill. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2011.

He was a contributor to the catalogues for the international exhibitions Portraits publics, portraits privés 1770–1830 (Grand Palais, Paris, 2006) and Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1830 (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2007).

His recent publications include:

His recent publications include:

- 'Identifying Mrs Meeke: Another Burney Family Novelist', Review of English Studies (2013) [winner of the 2012 Review of English Studies essay prize; free to access].

- 'English-Language Newspapers in Revolutionary France', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2012).

- 'To "Shew Virtue its Own Image": William Hodges's The Effects of Peace and The Consequences of War, 1794–1795', British Art Journal (2008).