Matthew Kelly is a senior lecturer in the history department of the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. A historian of Ireland by training and with considerable interest in the history of Poland, he has developed his interest in the history of landscape during the past few years. He completed his PhD at the University of Oxford, where he was also a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow. While a Fellow of the RCC, he aims to draft a substantial part of his forthcoming book Quartz and Feldspar: A History of Modern Dartmoor.