Professor Jeffrey Richards

Professor of Cultural History

Associated research centres and groups: Diasporas, Peripheries and Identities

Current Teaching

HIST349

Research Interests

• Cinema and Society in Britain.
• Victorian Theatre.
• National Identity.

Publications

Books

• Visions of Yesterday (London: Routledge, 1973)
• Swordsmen of the Screen (London: Routledge, 1977)
• The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages 476-752 (London: Routledge, 1979).
• Consul of God: The Life and Times of Pope Gregory the Great (London: Routledge, 1980).
• With E. J. Evans, A Social History of Britain in Postcards 1870-1920 (London: Longmans, 1980)
• With A. Aldgate, Best of British: Cinema and Society 1930-1970 (Oxford: Blackwells, 1983).
• Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain 1930-39 (London: Routledge, 1984).
• With J. M. Mackenzie, The Railway Station: A Social History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
• With A. Aldgate, Britain Can Take It: British Films and the Second World War (Oxford: Blackwells, 1986; 2nd edn, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994).
• Thorold Dickinson: The Man and his Films (Croom Helm, 1986; 2nd ed., Scarecrow Press, Maryland, 1997).
• Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988).
• Sex, Dissidence and Damnation (London: Routledge, 1991).
• Films and British National Identity (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997).
• Imperialism and Music (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001).
• A Night to Remember: The Definitive Titanic Film (London: I. B. Tauris, 2002).
• Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and His World (London: Hambledon and London, 2005).
• Hollywood's Ancient Worlds (Continuum, 2008).

Books Edited and Introduced

• James Greenwood, The Seven Curses of London (1869, republished by Blackwells, Oxford, 1981).
• With Dorothy Sheridan, Mass Observation at the Movies (London: Routledge, 1987).
• Imperialism and Juvenile Literature (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989).
• Sir Henry Irving, Theatre, Culture and Society (Keele: Ryburn Press, 1994).
• With A. Kelly and J Pepper, Filming T. E. Lawrence: Korda's Lost Epic (London: I. B. Tauris, 1997).
• The Unknown 1930's: An Alternative History of British Cinema (London: I. B. Tauris, 1998).
• Uneasy Chairs: Life as a Professor (Lancaster: Lancaster University, 1998).
• With S. Wilson and L. Woodhead, Diana: The Making of a Media Saint (London: I. B. Tauris, 1999).
• With A. Heinrich and K. Newey, Ruskin,The Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture (Palgrave, 2009).

Recent Essays and Articles

• 'From Greyfriars to Grange Hill', in N. Tucker (ed.), School Stories: From Bunter to Buckeridge, NCRCL Papers, 4 (1999), 35-51.
• 'The Hollywoodization of Diana', in J. Richards, S. Wilson and L. Woodhead (eds.), Diana: The Making of a Media Saint (I. B. Tauris, 1999), pp. 59-73.
• 'Things to come and science fiction in the 1930s,' in I. Q. Hunter (ed.), British Science Fiction Cinema (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 16-32.
• 'From Christianity to Paganism: the New Middle Ages and the Values of 'Medieval' Masculinity', Cultural Values, 3 (1999), 213-34.
• 'Crisis at Christmas: Turkey Time, The Holly and the Ivy and The Cheaters in M. Connelly (ed.), Christmas at the Movies (I. B. Tauris, 2000), pp. 97-113.
• 'Rethinking British Cinema', in J. Ashby and A. Higson (eds.), British Cinema: Past and Present (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 21-34.
• 'Imperial Heroes for a Post-Imperial Age: Films and the End of Empire', in S. Ward (ed.), British Culture and the End of Empire (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001), pp.128-44.
• 'The "Lancashire Novelist" and the Lancashire Witches', in R. Poole (ed.), The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. 166-87.
• 'Football and the Crisis of British Identity', in S. Caunce, E. Mazierska, S. Sydney-Smith, and J. K. Walton (eds), Relocating Britishness (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), pp. 88-108.
• 'Humphrey Jennings: The Poet as Propagandist', in M. Connelly and D. Welch (eds), War and the Media (London: I. B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 127-38.
• 'The Politics of the Swashbuckler' in James Chapman, Mark Glancy and Sue Harper eds., The New Film History London: Palgrave, 2007 pp.119-36.
• 'The Monarchy and Film, 1900-2006' in Andrzej Olechnowicz ed., The Monarchy and the British Nation, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp 258-79.
• 'Irving and his Scenic Artists' in Richard Foulkes ed., Henry Irving: a re-evaluation, Ashgate, 2008, pp 99-116.
• 'Robin Hood, King Arthur and Cold War Chivalry' in Helen Phillips ed., Bandit Territories: British Outlaws and their Traditions, Cardiff; University of Wales Press, 2008, pp 167-195.
• 'Film and television: the moving image' in Sarah Barber and Corinna M. Peniston-Bird, eds., History Beyond the Text London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 72-88.
• 'John Ruskin, The Olympian Painters and the Amateur Stage' in A. Heinrich, K. Newey and J. Richards eds., Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009, pp. 19-41.

Contact

If you would like to contact Jeffrey through e-mail, please send your messages via Christine Dundas: c.dundas@lancaster.ac.uk.

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