Dr Andrew Newby (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), ‘“It Would Lead to Sheer Anarchy”: Joseph R. Fisher, Finland and the Home Rule Question 1899-1914'

Dr Andrew Newby is a senior lecturer in the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. He previously held research posts at the universities of Helsinki and Tampere in Finland and Aarhus University in Denmark, as well as lectureships at Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities. In addition to comparative and transnational studies of Nordic societies, his research interests lie in the history and society of Europe during the 'Long Nineteenth Century'. Most recently he has been working on themes relating to famine – especially the  Great Finnish Famine of the 1860s and its commemoration, poor relief, comparisons with other catastrophes (notably the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s), and the phenomenon of international aid (both from the donor and recipient perspective). More generally, He has also been working on a wider project examining comparisons and contrasts in  Irish and Finnish history - including as guest editor of a 2017 issue of Irish Historical Studies. He is the author of Ireland, Radicalism and the Scottish Highlands, c. 1870-1912 (Edinburgh, 2007) and has a major study of the Great Finnish Famine forthcoming.

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