Professor, Modern British History.
Anglia Ruskin University.
Research expertise
Victorian studies; modern British and United States history; labour history; the history of popular culture; historiography; theory and history.
Contributions
Places
West End of London
The West End of London generated new forms of networking and sociability. This entry argues that the West End was shaped by both patrician society and a vigorous and often obscene popular culture that was evident in the pubs and brothels of Covent Garden.