Dr Patrick Glen

Dr Patrick Glen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Email address P.Glen@wlv.ac.uk
  • Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Institute School of Social, Historical and Political Studies
  • Areas of expertise

    I am an expert in the social and cultural history of post-War Britain, popular music, the press, audience research and discussions of social mores.

Having finished my PhD in History at the University of Sheffield in 2013, I worked as a learning developer at the University of East London. I subsequently moved to University College London to work as the Postdoctoral Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project, Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s.

Following that, I taught at the University of Salford and then returned to University College London, again as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, on the AHRC-funded project, Remembering 1960s British Cinema-going.

At UCL I was awarded a Beacon Bursary for my public engagement work and oversaw 44 public events in a year.

Immediately before moving to the University of Wolverhampton, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the AHRC-funded Everday Political Engagement project at the University of Sheffield.

I am a member of DIY indie/punk band, Unpaid Intern. With them I have released music, toured and appeared on BBC radio.

I have written about music, culture and society for several magazines, websites, fanzines and blogs.

 

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I am a social and cultural historian of twentieth century Britain. I am particularly interested in the investigating the social and cultural history of popular culture, music, film, the media, press and audiences to interrogate the dynamics of class, gender, race, sexuality and locality.

I am currently working on an oral history of music fans in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s.

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PhD History, The University of Sheffield (2013)

MA Twentieth Century Cultural History, Queen Mary, the University of London (2008)

BA (Hons) History & Politics, The University of Sheffield (2007)

‘“Something is happening and you don’t know what it is”: The Music and Entertainment Press,’ in the History of Newspapers and Periodicals in Britain and Ireland 1650-2011 Vol. 3 edited by Martin Conboy and David Finkelstein (Edinburgh, forthcoming 2019).

Youth and Permissive Social Change in British Music Papers, 1967-1983 (Palgrave Macmillan: Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change Series, 2018).

‘Exploiting the Daydreams of Teenagers’: Remembering and Reporting Young People’s Cinema-going during the 1960s, Media History (2017).

‘“Oh You Pretty Thing!”: How David Bowie “Unlocked Everybody’s Inner Queen,” in Spite of the Music Press,’ Contemporary British History (2016).

‘Satan and Deciples (sic),’ The Gathering of the Tribes: Music and Heavy Consciousness Creation, edited by Mark Goodall (London, 2013).