By Emeritus Professor Martyn Andrew Lyons

Journal articles

Lyons M, 2024, 'Posting the nation: Australia’s apprenticeship in letter writing', History Australia, pp. 1 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2024.2412855

Lyons M, 2020, 'Writing Upwards: Letters to Robert Menzies, Australian Prime Minister, 1949-1966', Journal of Epistolary Studies, 2, pp. 34 - 51, https://journals.tdl.org/jes/index.php/jes/issue/view/7

Lyons M, 2019, 'Robert Darnton. A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution.', The American Historical Review, 124, pp. 1965 - 1966, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz1144

Lyons M, 2019, 'Ships' newspapers and the graphic universe afloat in the nineteenth century', Script and Print, 42, pp. 5 - 25, https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=278400928385353;res=IELNZC

Lyons M, 2018, 'Prison Letters: Spain Confronts Its Past', European Journal of Life Writing, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.7.244

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, http://www.sharpweb.org/linguafranca/issue-3-2017

Lyons M, 2017, 'Do Peasants Write Egodocuments? The 'ordinary exception' of Luigi Daldosso in the First World War', Quaerendo, 47, pp. 38 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341370

Lyons M, 2016, 'National Histories of the Book in a Transnational Age', Memoires du Livre / Studies in Book Culture, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1036855ar

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2016.1150065

Lyons M, 2016, 'Slow Reading in a Hurried Age', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 21, pp. 350 - 351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2016.1139346

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, http://www.h-france.net/rude/rudepapers.html

Lyons MA, 2015, 'Writing Upwards: How the Weak Wrote to the Powerful', Journal of Social History, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shv038

Lyons M, 2014, 'How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 19, pp. 935 - 936, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2014.965523

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2014.939162

Lyons M, 2014, 'The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind', EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY, 44, pp. 515 - 516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691414537193g

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2013.859790

Lyons M, 2014, 'Reading and Writing Communities in the Trenches, 1914-1918 (France and Italy)', Australian Literary Studies, 29, pp. 41 - 58

Lyons M, 2014, 'QWERTYUIOP: How the Typewriter Influenced Writing Practices', Quaerendo, 44, pp. 219 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341304

Lyons MA, 2014, 'The Power of the Scribe: Delegated Writing in Modern Europe', European History Quarterly, 44, pp. 244 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691414526342

Lyons M, 2013, 'A Reader on Reading', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 18, pp. 950 - 952, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2013.831234

Lyons M, 2013, 'Celestial Letters: Morals and Magic in Nineteenth-Century France', French History, 27, pp. 496 - 514, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fh/crt047

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, http://www.droz.org/en/livre/?GCOI=26001100518360

Lyons M, 2012, 'New Directions in the History of Written Culture', Culture and History Digital Journal, 1, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/chdj.2012.007

Lyons M, 2010, 'Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age', AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 115, pp. 883 - 883, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.115.3.883

Lyons M, 2010, '‘A New History from Below ? The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe’', History Australia, 7, pp. 60.1 - 60.9, http://dx.doi.org/10.2104/ha100059

Lyons M, 2010, 'Christine Haynes, Lost Illusions: The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 346. $45.00 (ISBN 978-0-674-03576-8).', Law and History Review, 28, pp. 1103 - 1104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248010000957

Lyons M, 2006, 'Unnaturally French: Foreign citizens in the old regime and after', EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY, 36, pp. 649 - 651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691406068199

Lyons M, 2005, 'Enlightenment and revolution: Essays in honour of Norman Hampson', ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 120, pp. 150 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei027

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

Lyons MA, 2004, 'France since 1870: Culture, politics, and society', Journal of Religious History, 28, pp. 202 - 204

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

Lyons M, 2002, 'Napoleon and his collaborators: The making of a dictatorship', ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 117, pp. 177 - 1278, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000179879600024&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

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, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000169277600017&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

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, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000169277600018&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lyons M, 2001, 'La culture litteraire des travailleurs', Annales - Histoire Sciences Sociales, pp. 927 - 946

Lyons M, 2000, 'Napoleon and the revolutionary potential of Bonapartism', Modern and Contemporary France, pp. 507 - 510

Lyons M, 2000, 'Pour une histoire orale de la lecture: pratiques de lecture en Australie, 1890-1930', Geneses, pp. 108 - 124

Lyons M, 1999, 'Love letters and writing practices: on `ecritures intimes` in the nineteenth century', Journal of Family History, pp. 232 - 239

Lyons M, 1999, 'The history of reading from Gutenberg to Gates', European Legacy, pp. 50 - 57

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

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

Lyons M, 1997, 'Colonial experiences - New Caledonia 1853-1920', OCEANIA, 68, pp. 137 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4461.1997.tb02658.x

Lyons M, 1997, 'What did the peasants read? Written and printed culture in rural France, 1815-1914', European History Quarterly, 27, pp. 165 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026569149702700201

Lyons M, 1997, 'Bush Readers, Factory Readers, Theme Readers: Expanding the Australian Reading Public, c.1890-1930', Publishing Studies, pp. 17 - 23

Lyons M, 1997, 'The History of Reading and Reading Communities', Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 21, pp. 5 - 15

Lyons M, 1996, 'Fires of expiation: book-burnings and Catholic Missions in Restoration France', French History, 10, pp. 240 - 266

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

Lyons M, 1995, 'Working-class autobiographers in 19th century Europe: some Franco-British comparisons', History of European Ideas, 20, pp. 235 - 241

LYONS M, 1994, 'FRANCES OVERSEAS FRONTIER - DEPARTEMENTS-ET-TERRITOIRES-DOUTRE-MER - ALDRICH,R, CONNELL,J', JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY, 66, pp. 399 - 400, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/244857

LYONS M, 1994, 'FRANCE AND THE SOUTH-PACIFIC - A CONTEMPORARY-HISTORY - HENNINGHAM,S', MOUVEMENT SOCIAL, pp. 183 - 185, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3779299

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