Dr Adrian Bingham presents this talk about recent research on the history of twentieth-century Britain (popular press and political culture). It is recommended that you download the accompanying PDF (found separately in this collection) in order to reference whilst watching this video.

joined the History Department at Sheffield in September 2006. Before this he read history at Merton College, Oxford, and stayed there to study for his D.Phil. In 2002 Adrian took up a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Contemporary British History (CCBH), Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Adrian remained at the CCBH to hold a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Adrian's main research interests are in the political, social and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain. He has worked extensively on the national popular press in the decades after 1918, examining the ways in which newspapers both reflected and shaped attitudes to gender, sexuality and class. His first monograph explored press debates about femininity and masculinity in the inter-war period. Adrian's second book, Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 1918-1978, explored the role of the press as a source of information and imagery about sex, morality and personal relationships. He is also interested in the history of press regulation, and conducted a project examining the Calcutt Report of 1990 and the establishment of the Press Complaints Commission.

Beyond his work on the press, Adrian is interested in popular attitudes to politics; cultural hierarchies, particularly the category of the ‘middlebrow’; the circulation of knowledge about sex; and the social and cultural changes in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.