His research focuses on provincial print cultures and local and regional identities, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is an associate editor of the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism, and wrote the chapter on provincial periodicals in the award-winning Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers (2016). Recent journal articles have examined the leading role of local newspapers in Victorian poetry publishing, and the deleterious dominance of The Times in nineteenth-century scholarship.