Professor Emeritus
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of British Columbia
M.A., Oxford
Graduate Certificate of Education, University of Manchester
B.A. (Hons.), Oxford
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Social and cultural history of modern Britain; leisure, popular culture and sexuality; Victorian music hall and the twentieth century variety stage; jazz in Britain
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Leisure and Class in Victorian England 3rd ed. (2006).
Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City (1998).
Music Hall: The Business of Pleasure (1986).