Jeffrey Richards

Jeffrey Richards
Jeffrey Richards
Academic background
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge;
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Institutions	Lancaster University;

Jeffrey Richards (born c.1945)^[1] is a British historian.

Educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, he is Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University. A leading cultural historian and film critic, he is the author of over 15 books on British cultural history. His books include The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages 476–752 (1979), and Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and His World (2005). He is also a Companion of the Guild of St George.

Selected publications

Richards, Jeffrey (2017), China and the Chinese in Popular Film: From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan, Cinema and Society, London: I. B. Tauris, ISBN 978-1350212138
Richards, Jeffrey (2017), Dancing in the English Style: Consumption, Americanisation, and National Identity in Britain, 1918–50, Studies in Popular Culture, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-1784994334
Richards, Jeffrey; Newey, Katherine; Yeandle, Peter, eds. (2016), Politics, Performance, and Popular Culture: Theatre and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Studies in Popular Culture, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-0719091698
Richards, Jeffrey (2008), Hollywood's Ancient Worlds, London: Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1847250070
Richards, Jeffrey (2005), Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and His World (1st ed.), London: Hambledon Continuum, ISBN 978-1-85285591-8
Richards, Jeffrey (2003), A Night to Remember: The Definitive Titanic Film, London: I. B. Tauris, ISBN 978-1860648496
Richards, Jeffrey (2001), Imperialism and Music: Britain, 1876–1953, Studies in Imperialism, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-0719045066
Richards, Jeffrey; Wilson, Scott; Woodhead, Linda, eds. (1999), Diana: The Making of a Media Saint, London: I. B. Tauris, ISBN 978-1860643880
Richards, Jeffrey (1998), The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema 1929–1939, London: I. B. Tauris, ISBN 978-1860646287
Richards, Jeffrey (1997), Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army, Studies in Popular Culture, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-0719047435
Richards, Jeffrey, ed. (1997), Filming T. E. Lawrence: Korda's Lost Epic, London: I. B. Tauris, ISBN 978-1860640483
Richards, Jeffrey, ed. (1994), Sir Henry Irving: Theatre, Culture and Society; Essays, Addresses and Lectures (1st ed.), Keele: Ryburn, ISBN 978-1-85331062-1
Richards, Jeffrey (1994), Sex, Dissidence, and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0415071475
Richards, Jeffrey (1989), Imperialism and Juvenile Literature, Studies in Imperialism, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-0719024207
Richards, Jeffrey (1988), Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-0719027758
Richards, Jeffrey, ed. (1987), Mass Observation at the Movies, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-1138980556
Richards, Jeffrey (1986), Britain can take it: The British Cinema during the Second World War, Oxford: Blackwell, ISBN 978-1845114459
MacKenzie, J.M.; Richards, Jeffrey (1986), The Railway Station: a Social History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0571269037
Richards, Jeffrey (1984), Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain 1930-1939 (1st ed.), London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-41504666-4 (2nd ed.) I. B. Tauris, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84885122-1
Richards, Jeffrey; Aldgate, Anthony (1983), Best of British: Cinema and Society from 1930 to the present (1st ed.), Oxford: Basil Blackwell, ISBN 978-0-63113018-5 (2nd ed.) I. B. Tauris, 1999, ISBN 978-1-86064288-3
Richards, Jeffrey (1980), Consul of God: The Life and Times of Gregory the Great, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-1138777569
Evans, E.J.; Richards, Jeffrey (1980), A Social History of Britain in Postcards, 1870–1930, London: Longman, ISBN 978-0582502925
Richards, Jeffrey (1979), The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages 476–752, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-1138777880
Richards, Jeffrey (1977), Swordsmen of the Screen: from Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York, Cinema and Society, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0710084781
Richards, Jeffrey (1973), Visions of Yesterday, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-1138994089