Taylor's research focuses on 19th-century British history, especially radical politics and Chartism, the history of parliament in this period, the interaction between Empire and the political system and the historiography of Victorian politics and culture.[2]
Books
Empress: Queen Victoria and India (Yale University Press, 2018)
Ernest Jones, Chartism and the Romance of Politics, 1819–69 (Oxford University Press, 2003).
(edited with Charles Beem) The Man Behind the Queen: Princes Consort in History (Palgrave, 2014).
(edited) The Age of Asa: Lord Briggs, Public Life and History in Britain since 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
(edited) The Victorian Empire and Britain’s Maritime World: The Sea and Global History, 1837–1901 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
(edited) Southampton: Gateway to the British Empire (IB Tauris, 2007).
(edited) Palmerston Studies (2 vols; Hartley Institute, 2007).
(edited) The Victorians since 1901: Histories, Representations and Revisions (Manchester University Press, 2004).
(edited) Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution, Oxford World's Classics series (Oxford University Press, 2001).
(edited) Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820 (Scolar Press, 1997).
The Decline of British Radicalism, 1847–1860 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
(edited) The European Diaries of Richard Cobden, 1846–1849 (Scolar Press, 1994).
Book chapters
"Magna Carta in the Nineteenth Century", in N. Vincent (ed.), Magna Carta: The Foundation of Freedom 1215–2015 (Third Millennium Information, 2014).
"Joseph Hume and the reformation of India, 1819–33", in G. Burgess and M. Festenstein (eds.), Radicalism in English Political Thought, 1550–1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
"Empire and parliamentary reform: the 1832 Reform Act revisited", in A. Burns and J. Innes (eds.), Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain, c. 1780–1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
"Labour and the constitution", in D. Tanner, et al. (eds.), Labour's First Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
"The six points: Chartism and the reform of parliament", in O. Ashton, et al. (eds), The Chartist Legacy (Merlin Press, 1999).
Articles
"The dominion of history: the export of historical research from Britain since 1850", Historical Research, vol. 87, no. 236 (2014)
"Queen Victoria and India, 1837–61", Victorian Studies, vol. 47, issue 1 (2004).
"The 1848 revolutions and the British empire", Past & Present, vol. 166 (2000).
"The beginnings of modern British social history?", History Workshop Journal, vol. 43, (1997).
"John Bull and the iconography of public opinion in England, c. 1712–1929", Past & Present, vol. 134 (1992).
References
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abc"Taylor, Prof. Miles", Who's Who 2017 (online edition), Oxford University Press, 2016. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
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ab"Miles Taylor", University of York. Retrieved 26 March 2017.