Brian Maidment

Brian Edwin Maidment (19 March 1946 – 28 January 2025) was a British historian who specialised in the history of British print culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. He held professorships at the University of Huddersfield, University of Salford and Liverpool John Moores University.

Life and career Born on 19 March 1946 in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, Brian Edwin Maidment

Publications (editor) The Poorhouse Fugitives: Self Taught Poets and Poetry in Victorian Britain (1989) Reading Popular Prints 1790–1870 (2001) Dusty Bob: A Cultural History of Dustmen, 1780–1870 (2007) Comedy, Caricature and the Social Order, 1820–50 (2013) Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture: Sketches by Seymour and Comic Illustration (2021)