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Emeritus Professor Martyn Lyons

Emeritus Professor Martyn Lyons

Emeritus Professor

BA DPhil Oxford FAHA

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages

I was born in London, took my D.Phil. at Oxford University and have been at UNSW since 1977. I am a former head of the history school, and was the Faculty’s Associate Dean for Research and Postgraduate Affairs from 2002-7. I am currently Emeritus Professor of History and European Studies in the School of Humanities and Languages. My main research interests are in two distinct fields: French revolutionary and Napoleonic history and the history of books, reading and writing in Europe and Australia. I have produced nineteen books, including 'A History of Reading and Writing in the Western World' (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010), and 'The Writing Culture of ordinary people in Europe, c. 1860-1920' (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

I have held visiting positions at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the University of Alcalá de Henares and the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niteroi, Brazil. In 1997, I was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy for the Humanities. In 2003, I was awarded the Centenary Medal for services to the Humanities in the study of History. In 2008-20, I was President of the Australian Historical Association. In 2008, I was Campagnia di San Paolo- Bogliasco Foundation Fellow at the Liguria Study Centre in Genoa, and in 2010 I was a Camargo Foundation Fellow in Cassis, France.
E-mail
m.lyons@unsw.edu.au
Location
Morven Brown
  • Books | 2022
    Lyons M, 2022, The History of Illiteracy in the Modern World Since 1750, Palgrave Macmillan,
    Books | 2021
    Lyons M, 2021, Dear Prime Minister Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966
    Books | 2021
    Lyons M, 2021, The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices, University of Toronto Press, Toronto,
    Books | 2018
    Lyons M, 2018, The Pyrenees in the Modern Era: Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012, hb, Bloomsbury, London,
    Books | 2016
    Lyons M, 2016, La Cultura escrita de la gente comun en Europa, c. 1860-1920, Scripta Manent, Ampersand, Buenos Aires
    Books | 2013
    Lyons M, 2013, The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c. 1860-1920, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK,
    Books | 2011
    Lyons M, 2011, Books - A Living History, Original, Thames and Hudson, London,
    Books | 2010
    Lyons M, 2010, A History of Reading and Writing in the Western World, hb, Palgrave-Macmillan UK, Basingstoke UK
    Books | 2008
    Lyons M, 2008, Reading culture and writing practices in nineteenth-century France, University of Toronto Press, Toronto
    Books | 2007
    2007, Ordinary Writings, Personal Narratives: Writing Practices in 19th and early 20th-century Europe, Lyons M, (ed.), Peter Lang, Switzerland
    Books | 2006
    Lyons M, 2006, Post-Revolutionary Europe, 1815-1856, 1, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmills, Basingstoke UK
    Books | 2005
    2005, Australia`s History: themes and debates, Lyons M; Russell P, (ed.), University of New South Wales Press, Sydney
    Books | 2001
    Lyons M, 2001, Readers and society in nineteenth-century France: workers, women, peasants, Original, Palgrave, Houndsmills, UK
    Books | 2001
    2001, A history of the book in Australia, 1891-1945: a national culture in a colonised market, Lyons M; Arnold J, (ed.), Queensland University Press, St Lucia, Queensland
    Books | 1999
    Lyons M; Leahy C, 1999, A Palavra impressa: historias da leitura no seculo XIX, Original, Casa da Palavra, Rio de Janeiro
    Books | 1999
    1999, The Sphinx in the Tuileries and other essays in French History, Aldrich R; Lyons M, (ed.), University of Sydney, Sydney
    Books | 1994
    Lyons M, 1994, Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution, Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke UK
    Books | 1992
    Lyons M; Taksa L, 1992, Australian Readers Remember: an oral history of reading, 1890-1930, Oxford University Press, Melbourne
    Books | 1987
    Lyons M, 1987, Le Triomphe du Livre: une histoire sociologique de la lecture dans la France du XIXe siecle, Promodis, Paris
    Books | 1986
    Lyons M, 1986, The Totem and the Tricolour: A short history of New Caledonia since 1774, UNSW Press, Sydney
    Books | 1980
    Lyons M, 1980, Revolution et Terreur a Toulouse, Le Midi et son histoire, Privat, Toulouse
    Books | 1975
    Lyons M, 1975, France under the Directory, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Lyons M, 2023, 'Leselust, Il gusto della lettura: Il consumo letterario di massa e i suoi disagi, 1850-1918', in Braida L; Ouvry-Vial B (ed.), Leggere en Europa: testi, forme pratiche, secoli XVIII-XXI, Carocci editore, Rome, pp. 83 - 111,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Lyons M, 2022, 'Las escrituras ordinarias y la nueva historia desde abajo', in Hurtado A; Rodríguez Ávila SP (ed.), Pasado presente: Disputas por la memoria y el conocimiento histórico, siglos xix-xxi, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional / Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia, pp. 69 - 89
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Lyons M, 2019, 'The Common Writer since 1500', in Eliot S; Rose J (ed.), Companion to the History of the Book, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ, pp. 759 - 772,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Lyons M, 2018, 'Companions and Competitors: Men and Women Travellers and Travel Writing in the mid-nineteenth century French Pyrenees', in Meens F; Sintobin T (ed.), Gender, Companionship and Travel: Discourses in Pre-Modern and Modern Travel Literature, edn. Routledge International Studies of Women and Place, Routledge, London, pp. 154 - 170,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Lyons M, 2018, 'Companions and competitors: Men and women travellers and travel writing in the mid-nineteenth-century French Pyrenees', in Gender, Companionship, and Travel: Discourses in Pre-modern and Modern Travel Literature, pp. 155 - 170
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Lyons M, 2018, 'Ordinary Writings of War and Emigration, 1860s-1920s:Vernacular Language and Epistolary Literacy', in Joachim Steffen ; Harald Thun ; Rainer Zaiser (ed.), Classes populaires, scripturalité et histoire de la langue, Westensee Verlag, Kiel, Germany, pp. 463 - 491
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Lyons M; Marquilhas R, 2017, 'A World Inscribed - Introduction', in Lyons M (ed.), Approaches to the History of Written Culture: A World Inscribed, edn. Palgrave New Directions in Book History, Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke UK, pp. 1 - 20,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Lyons M; Marquilhas R, 2017, 'A World Inscribed – Introduction', in Approaches to the History of Written Culture, Springer Nature, pp. 1 - 20,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Lyons M; Marquilhas R, 2017, 'A World Inscribed – Introduction', in New Directions in Book History, pp. 1 - 20,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Lyons M, 2017, 'QWERTYUIOP: How the Typewriter Influenced Writing Practices', in New Directions in Book History, pp. 203 - 223,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Lyons M, 2017, 'The Future of the History of Writing', in New Directions in Book History, pp. 225 - 238,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Lyons M, 2017, 'The Future of the History of Writing', in Lyons M; Marquilhas R (ed.), Approaches to the History of Written Culture: A World Inscribed, edn. Palgrave New Directions in Book History, Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke UK, pp. 225 - 238,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Lyons M, 2016, 'Escrever aos de Cima: Como o Fracos Escrevem aos Poderosos', in Schapochnik N; Martins Venância G (ed.), Escrita, Edição e Leitura na América Latina, PPGHistoria-UFF, Niterói RJ Brasil, pp. 6 - 22,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Lyons M, 2014, 'Amor, muerte y escritura en el frente italiano, 1915-1918', in Castillo Gomez, A ; Sierra Blas, V (ed.), Cinco Siglos de Cartas. Historia y practicas epistolares en las epocas moderna y contemporanea, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, pp. 291 - 309,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Lyons M, 2013, 'A New History from Below? The Writing Culture of European Peasants, c.1850 - c.1920', in Kuismin A; Driscoll MJ (ed.), White field, black seeds: Nordic literary practices in the long nineteenth century, edn. Original, Finnish Literature Society, Studia Fennica Litteraria, Helsinki, pp. 13 - 25,
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Lyons M, 2008, 'L`essor de la librairie', in Histoire de la Librairie Francaise, edn. Original, Cercle de la Librairie, Paris, pp. 27 - 39
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Lyons M, 2008, 'L`histoire culturelle en Australie', in L`histoire culturelle: un `tournant mondial` dans l`historiographie?, edn. Original, Editions Universitaires de Dijon, Dijon, pp. 79 - 92
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Lyons M, 2007, '`Ordinary Writings` or How the `Illiterate` Speak to Historians', in Ordinary Writings, Personal Narratives: Writing Practices in 19th and early 20th-century Europe, edn. Original, Peter Lang, Switzerland, pp. 13 - 32
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Lyons M, 2002, 'Los soldados franceses y su correspondencia. Hacia una historia de las practicas de la cultura escrita en la primera guerra mundial', in Gomez AC (ed.), La conquista del alfabeto: Escritura y clases populares, edn. Original, Ediciones Trea, Spain, pp. 225 - 245
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Bremer A; Lyons M, 2001, 'Mechanics` institute libraries - the readers demand fiction', in Lyons M; Arnold J (ed.), A history of the book in Australia, 1891-1945: a national culture in a colonised market, edn. 1st, Queensland University Press, St Lucia, Queensland, pp. 209 - 225
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Lyons M, 2001, 'Britain`s largest export market', in Lyons M; Arnold J (ed.), A history of the book in Australia, 1891-1945: a national culture in a colonised market, edn. 1st, Queensland University Press, St Lucia, Queensland, pp. 19 - 26
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Lyons M, 2001, 'Literary anniversaries: commemorating Shakespeare and others, 1900-1940', in Lyons M; Arnold J (ed.), A history of the book in Australia, 1891-1945: a national culture in a colonised market, edn. 1st, Queensland University Press, St Lucia, Queensland, pp. 389 - 400
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Lyons M, 2001, 'Reading models and reading communities', in Lyons M; Arnold J (ed.), A history of the book in Australia, 1891-1945: a national culture in a colonised market, edn. 1st, Queensland University Press, St Lucia, Queensland, pp. 370 - 383
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Lyons M, 2001, 'Reading practices in Australia', in Lyons M; Arnold J (ed.), A history of the book in Australia, 1891-1945: a national culture in a colonised market, edn. 1st, Queensland University Press, St Lucia, Queensland, pp. 335 - 354
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Lyons M, 2001, 'The book trade and the Australian reader in 1945', in Lyons M; Arnold J (ed.), A history of the book in Australia, 1891-1945: a national culture in a colonised market, edn. 1st, Queensland University Press, St Lucia, Queensland, pp. 401 - 407
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Lyons M, 2001, 'The library in the workplace: the New South Wales Railway Institute library', in Lyons M; Arnold J (ed.), A history of the book in Australia, 1891-1945: a national culture in a colonised market, edn. 1st, Queensland University Press, St Lucia, Queensland, pp. 176 - 189
    Book Chapters | 1999
    Lyons M, 1999, 'New readers in the 19th century: women, children, workers', in A history of reading in the west, edn. Original, Polity Press, Oxford, pp. 313 - 344
    Book Chapters | 1999
    Lyons M, 1999, 'Reading practices, writing practices: love letters and écritures intimes in 19th century France and Australia', in The culture of the book: essays from two hemispheres in honour of Wallace Kirsop, edn. Original, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zeala, Melbourne, pp. 356 - 365
    Book Chapters | 1998
    Lyons M, 1998, 'Librairies et bibliotheques au XIXe siecle`', in Ouvriers en banlieue, XIXe-XXe siecle, edn. Original, Editions de l'Atelier, Paris, pp. 390 - 407
    Book Chapters | 1997
    Lyons M, 1997, 'Les Nouveaux Lecteurs au 19e Siecle: Femmes, Enfants, Ouvriers', in Histoire de la Lecture dans le monde occidental, edn. Original, Seuil, Paris, France, pp. 365 - 400
    Book Chapters | 1991
    Lyons M, 1991, 'Regionalism and Linguistic Conformity in the French Revolution', in Forrest A; Jones P (ed.), Reshaping France: town, country and region during the French Revolution, Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 178 - 192
    Book Chapters | 1985
    Lyons M, 1985, 'Les bestsellers du 19e siecle', in Chartier R; Martin HJ (ed.), Histoire de l'Edition francaise, tome 3: Le Temps des Editeurs, Promodis, Paris, pp. 369 - 397
    Book Chapters | 1985
    Lyons M, 1985, 'Les contrefacons belges', in Chartier R; Martin HJ (ed.), Histoire de l'Edition francaise, tome 3: Le Temps des Editeurs, Promodis, Paris, pp. 272 - 273
    Book Chapters | 1983
    Lyons M, 1983, 'Cobb and the Historians', in Lucas C; Lewis G (ed.), Beyond the Terror: essays in French regional and social history, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 1 - 20
  • Edited Books | 2017
    Lyons M; Marquilhas R, (ed.), 2017, Approaches to the History of Written Culture: A World Inscribed, Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke UK,
  • Journal articles | 2020
    Lyons M, 2020, 'Writing Upwards: Letters to Robert Menzies, Australian Prime Minister, 1949-1966', Journal of Epistolary Studies, 2, pp. 34 - 51,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Lyons M, 2019, 'Ships' newspapers and the graphic universe afloat in the nineteenth century', Script and Print, 42, pp. 5 - 25,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lyons M, 2018, 'Prison Letters: Spain Confronts Its Past', European Journal of Life Writing, 7,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Lyons M, 2017, 'Do Peasants Write Egodocuments? The 'ordinary exception' of Luigi Daldosso in the First World War', Quaerendo, 47, pp. 38 - 60,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Lyons M, 2017, 'Jean-Yves Mollier and the legacy of Lucien Febvre in the history of nineteenth-century French publishing', Lingua Franca: A History of the Book in Translation, 2017,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Lyons M, 2016, 'National Histories of the Book in a Transnational Age', Memoires du Livre / Studies in Book Culture, 7,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Lyons M, 2016, 'Publishing Policies and Family Strategies: The Fortunes of a Dutch Publishing House in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 21, pp. 435 - 436,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Lyons M, 2016, 'Slow Reading in a Hurried Age', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 21, pp. 350 - 351,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Lyons M, 2015, 'The Death of Cannelle and the Re-invention of the Pyrenees', French History and Civilisation: Papers from the George Rude Seminar, 6 (2014 Seminar), pp. 279 - 291,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Lyons MA, 2015, 'Writing Upwards: How the Weak Wrote to the Powerful', Journal of Social History, 48,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lyons M, 2014, 'Controlling Time and Shaping the Self: Developments in Autobiographical Writing since the Sixteenth Century', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 19, pp. 124 - 125,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lyons M, 2014, 'How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 19, pp. 935 - 936,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lyons M, 2014, 'QWERTYUIOP: How the Typewriter Influenced Writing Practices', Quaerendo, 44, pp. 219 - 240,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lyons M, 2014, 'Reading and Writing Communities in the Trenches, 1914-1918 (France and Italy)', Australian Literary Studies, 29, pp. 41 - 58
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lyons M, 2014, 'The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind', EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY, 44, pp. 515 - 516,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lyons M, 2014, '‘Questo cor che tuo si rese’: the private and the public in Italian women's love letters in the long nineteenth century', Modern Italy, 19, pp. 355 - 368,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Lyons MA, 2014, 'The Power of the Scribe: Delegated Writing in Modern Europe', European History Quarterly, 44, pp. 244 - 262,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Lyons M, 2013, 'A Reader on Reading', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 18, pp. 950 - 952,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Lyons M, 2013, 'Celestial Letters: Morals and Magic in Nineteenth-Century France', French History, 27, pp. 496 - 514,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Lyons M; Mollier J-Y, 2012, 'L'histoire du livre dans une perspective transnationale', Histoire et civilisation du livre - revue internationale, 8, pp. 9 - 20,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Lyons M, 2012, 'New Directions in the History of Written Culture', Culture and History Digital Journal, 1, pp. 1 - 9,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Lyons M, 2010, 'Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age', AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 115, pp. 883 - 883,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Lyons M, 2010, '‘A New History from Below ? The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe’', History Australia, 7, pp. 60.1 - 60.9,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Lyons M, 2006, 'Unnaturally French: Foreign citizens in the old regime and after', EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY, 36, pp. 649 - 651,
    Journal articles | 2005
    Lyons M, 2005, 'Enlightenment and revolution: Essays in honour of Norman Hampson', ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 120, pp. 150 - 152,
    Journal articles | 2005
    Lyons M, 2005, 'La experiencia lectora y escritora de las mujeres trabajadoras en la Europa del siglo XIX', Cultura Escrita y Sociedad, 1, pp. 158 - 176
    Journal articles | 2004
    Lyons MA, 2004, 'France since 1870: Culture, politics, and society', Journal of Religious History, 28, pp. 202 - 204,
    Journal articles | 2003
    Lyons M, 2003, 'French soldiers and their correspondence: towards a history of writing practices in the First World War', French History, 17, pp. 79 - 95
    Journal articles | 2002
    Lyons M, 2002, 'Napoleon and his collaborators: The making of a dictatorship', ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 117, pp. 177 - 1278,
    Journal articles | 2001
    Lyons M, 2001, 'Church and society in eighteenth-century France, Vol 1: The clerical establishment and its social ramifications', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 25, pp. 221 - 224,
    Journal articles | 2001
    Lyons M, 2001, 'Church and society in eighteenth-century France, Vol 2: The religion of the people and the politics of religion', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 25, pp. 221 - 224,
    Journal articles | 2001
    Lyons M, 2001, 'La culture litteraire des travailleurs', Annales - Histoire Sciences Sociales, pp. 927 - 946
    Journal articles | 2000
    Lyons M, 2000, 'Napoleon and the revolutionary potential of Bonapartism', Modern and Contemporary France, pp. 507 - 510
    Journal articles | 2000
    Lyons M, 2000, 'Pour une histoire orale de la lecture: pratiques de lecture en Australie, 1890-1930', Geneses, pp. 108 - 124
    Journal articles | 1999
    Lyons M, 1999, 'Love letters and writing practices: on `ecritures intimes` in the nineteenth century', Journal of Family History, 24, pp. 232 - 239,
    Journal articles | 1999
    Lyons M, 1999, 'The history of reading from Gutenberg to Gates', European Legacy, pp. 50 - 57
    Journal articles | 1998
    Lyons M, 1998, 'Fogos de expiacao: queimas de livros e politicas culturais na Franca no inicio do seculo XIX', Leitura: teoria e pratica, 17, pp. 65 - 71
    Journal articles | 1998
    Lyons M, 1998, 'Praticas de leiture, praticas de escritura: cartas de amor et escritas intimas: Franca e Australia, seculo XIX', Locus: revista de historia, pp. 55 - 68
    Journal articles | 1997
    Lyons M, 1997, 'Bush Readers, Factory Readers, Theme Readers: Expanding the Australian Reading Public, c.1890-1930', Publishing Studies, pp. 17 - 23
    Journal articles | 1997
    Lyons M, 1997, 'Colonial experiences - New Caledonia 1853-1920', OCEANIA, 68, pp. 137 - 138,
    Journal articles | 1997
    Lyons M, 1997, 'The History of Reading and Reading Communities', Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 21, pp. 5 - 15
    Journal articles | 1997
    Lyons M, 1997, 'What did the peasants read? Written and printed culture in rural France, 1815-1914', European History Quarterly, 27, pp. 165 - 197,
    Journal articles | 1996
    Lyons M, 1996, 'Fires of expiation: book-burnings and Catholic Missions in Restoration France', French History, 10, pp. 240 - 266
    Journal articles | 1996
    Lyons M, 1996, 'The end of the annales? Some thoughts on the so called Death of the French Historical School', European Legacy, 1, pp. 8 - 13
    Journal articles | 1995
    Lyons M, 1995, 'Working-class autobiographers in 19th century Europe: some Franco-British comparisons', History of European Ideas, 20, pp. 235 - 241,
    Journal articles | 1994
    LYONS M, 1994, 'FRANCE AND THE SOUTH-PACIFIC - A CONTEMPORARY-HISTORY - HENNINGHAM,S', MOUVEMENT SOCIAL, pp. 183 - 185,
    Journal articles | 1994
    LYONS M, 1994, 'FRANCES OVERSEAS FRONTIER - DEPARTEMENTS-ET-TERRITOIRES-DOUTRE-MER - ALDRICH,R, CONNELL,J', JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY, 66, pp. 399 - 400,
    Journal articles | 1994
    LYONS M, 1994, 'FRANCES OVERSEAS FRONTIER - DEPARTMENTS-ET-TERRITOIRES-DOUTRE-MER - ALDRICH,R, CONNELL,J', MOUVEMENT SOCIAL, pp. 180 - 182,
    Journal articles | 1994
    LYONS M, 1994, 'REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE, 1770-1880 - FURET,F', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 40, pp. 269 - 270,
    Journal articles | 1994
    LYONS M, 1994, 'TOWARD A NATIONALIST HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA - CHALLENGES', MOUVEMENT SOCIAL, pp. 7 - 15,
    Journal articles | 1994
    Lyons M, 1994, 'La remise en cause d'une histoire nationaliste de l'Australie', Le Mouvement Social, pp. 7 - 15
    Journal articles | 1993
    Lyons M, 1993, 'Towards a national literary culture in France: Homogeneity and the 19th century reading public', History of European Ideas, 16, pp. 247 - 252,
    Journal articles | 1992
    LYONS M, 1992, 'BETWIXT AND BETWEEN - MIDDLEBROW FICTION AND ENGLISH SOCIETY IN THE 20S AND 30S - BRACCO,RM', AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 25, pp. 160 - 161,
    Journal articles | 1992
    LYONS M, 1992, 'BONAPARTE,NAPOLEON - THOMPSON,JM', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 38, pp. 300 - 300,
    Journal articles | 1992
    LYONS M, 1992, 'THE FRENCH HISTORICAL REVOLUTION - THE ANNALES SCHOOL, 1929-89 - BURKE,P', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 38, pp. 476 - 477,
    Journal articles | 1992
    Lyons M; Taksa L, 1992, ': impressions of the Australian woman reader, 1890-1933', Australian Cultural History, pp. 39 - 50
    Journal articles | 1992
    Lyons M, 1992, 'Books, Texts and Readers: which kind of cultural history?', Australian Cultural History, pp. 1 - 15
    Journal articles | 1991
    Lyons M, 1991, 'The Autodidacts and their Literary Culture: working-class autobiographers in 19th-century France', Australian Journal of French Studies, 28, pp. 264 - 273
    Journal articles | 1990
    LYONS M, 1990, 'THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF ROBESPIERRE,MAXIMILIEN - HAMPSON,N', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 36, pp. 291 - 292,
    Journal articles | 1986
    LYONS M, 1986, 'ORAL CULTURE AND RURAL-COMMUNITY IN 19TH-CENTURY FRANCE - THE VEILLEE-DHIVER', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF FRENCH STUDIES, 23, pp. 102 - 114,
    Journal articles | 1986
    Lyons M, 1986, 'Oral culture and rural community in 19th-century France: the ', Australian Journal of French Studies, 23, pp. 102 - 114
    Journal articles | 1984
    LYONS M, 1984, 'THE AUDIENCE FOR ROMANTICISM - SCOTT,WALTER IN FRANCE, 1815-51', EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY, 14, pp. 21 - 46,
    Journal articles | 1984
    Lyons M, 1984, 'The Audience for Romanticism: Walter Scott in France, 1815-1851', European History Quarterly, 14, pp. 21 - 46
    Journal articles | 1983
    LYONS M, 1983, 'A MAJOR FRENCH ENTERPRISE UNDER THE OLD REGIME - THE SAINT-GOBAIN ROYAL GLASS FACTORY 1665-1830 - FRENCH - PRIS,C', JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, 43, pp. 1017 - 1018,
    Journal articles | 1981
    LYONS M, 1981, 'GILDED YOUTH - EPISODES FROM THE FRENCH-REVOLUTION - FRENCH - GENDRON,F', JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY, 53, pp. 119 - 121,
    Journal articles | 1981
    LYONS M, 1981, 'POLITICS AND PATOIS - THE LINGUISTIC POLICY OF THE FRENCH-REVOLUTION', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF FRENCH STUDIES, 18, pp. 264 - 281,
    Journal articles | 1981
    LYONS M, 1981, 'RECENT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE FRENCH DIRECTORY', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 27, pp. 40 - 47,
    Journal articles | 1981
    Lyons M, 1981, 'Politics and Patois: the linguistic policy of the French Revolution', Australian Journal of French Studies, 18, pp. 264 - 281
    Journal articles | 1981
    Lyons M, 1981, 'Recent Interpretations of the French Directory', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 27, pp. 40 - 47
    Journal articles | 1978
    LYONS M, 1978, 'BANQUE ROYALE RIOT AND LAW,JOHN - FRENCH - FAURE,E', JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, 38, pp. 990 - 991,
    Journal articles | 1977
    Lyons M, 1977, 'M-G-A Vadier: the formation of the Jacobin mentality', French Historical Studies, 10, pp. 74 - 100
    Journal articles | 1977
    Lyons M, 1977, 'The Jacobin Elite of Toulouse', European Studies Review, 7, pp. 259 - 284
    Journal articles | 1975
    Lyons M, 1975, 'The 9 Thermidor: motives and effects', European Studies Review, 5, pp. 123 - 146
  • Conference Papers | 2011
    Lyons M, 2011, 'French Soldiers' Correspondence in the First World War and the Question of National Identity from Below', in Escritos das Mobilidades, Centro de Estudos de Historia do Atlantico, Funchal, pp. 607 - 621, presented at Escritos das mobilidades, Funchal, - 08 June 2011,
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Lyons M, 2008, 'How and why did Workers Write and Publish their Autobiographies in 19thc Europe?', in Proceedings of the 11th ISSEI Conference, University of Helsinki, http://blogs.helsinki.fi/issei2009, presented at International Society for the Study of european Ideas, Helsinki
    Conference Papers | 2005
    Lyons M, 2005, 'The 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, University of New South Wales 2005: The Conference Convenor’s Report', in History Australia, pp. 93.1 - 93.4,
    Conference Papers | 2002
    Lyons M, 2002, 'French soldiers and their correspondence: a history of writing practices in the First World War', in 13th George Rude Seminar in French History, Hobart, pp. 79 - 95, presented at 13th George Rude Seminar in French History, Hobart,
    Conference Papers | 1998
    Lyons M, 1998, 'The reading experience of working-class women in 19th century Europe', in Brinkhuis F; Talmor S (ed.), 5th conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, 5th conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Utrecht, Netherlands, presented at 5th conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Utrecht, Netherlands, 19 August 1998 - 24 August 1998
    Conference Papers | 1997
    Lyons M, 1997, 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the legacy of the French revolution', in Douglas VS (ed.), Atti del congresso internazionale Napoleonico, Atti del congresso internazionale Napoleonico, Alessandria, pp. 1045 - 1068, presented at Atti del congresso internazionale Napoleonico, Alessandria, 21 June 1997 - 26 June 1997
    Conference Papers | 1992
    LYONS M, 1992, 'THE AUTODIDACTS AND THEIR LITERARY CULTURE - WORKING-CLASS AUTOBIOGRAPHERS IN 19TH-CENTURY FRANCE', in AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF FRENCH STUDIES, MONASH UNIV, AUSTRALIA, UNIV ADELAIDE, ADELAIDE, pp. 264 - 273, presented at CONF ON LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, UNIV ADELAIDE, ADELAIDE, 07 July 1992 - 09 July 1992,

Fayolle Prize (Academie des Jeux Floraux, Toulouse), 1980

FASS Dean's Award for Best Monograph, 2013

European History Quarterly Award for best article, 2014

Past President, Australian Historical Association
Fellow. Australian Academy of the Humanities

Board of Directors, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing

I have held research fellowships and visiting positions in Cambridge (UK), Paris, Niteroi (Brazil), Bogliasco (Italy), Alcala de Henares (Spain), Lund (Sweden) and Cassis (France).

My Teaching


Research Students supervised successfully to completion, either as main or joint supervisor:

S.J.Blair PhD, Newspapers and their Readers in early Eastern Australia (1990)

N.Doumanis PhD, Italian Fascist Occupation of the Dodecanese Islands: an oral history (1994)

M.Voykovic PhD, The Culture of Thriller Fiction in Britain, 1898-1945 : authors, publishers and the 1st World War (1996)

G.Daly PhD, Napoleonic Rouen: Society, the State & the Prefectoral Administration in the Seine-Inférieure, 1800-1815 (1998)

F.Alafaci MA, Catholic Antisemitism in France during the 3rd Republic (2000)

D.Luscombe PhD, Inscribing the Social Role of the Architect: Frontispieces to 16th-century Italian Architectural Treatises, 1485-1585 (2004)

J.Burgess PhD, The Origins of the Banlieue Rouge: Politics, Local Government and Communal Identity in Arcueil and Cachan, 1919-1958 (2005)

M.Zarimis PhD, The Influence of Darwinism in Modern Greek Literature: the case of Grigoris Xenopoulos (2007)

M.Stephens PhD, The History of the Australian Museum Library (2013)

A.Lander PhD, The History of Zionist Youth Movements in Australia (2013)

Research Students currently supervised either as main or joint supervisor:

E.Meadows PhD, Horrors and Magnificence: British Travellers to Calabria, 19thc-20thc