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Andrew Davies (historian)

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Andrew Mark Davies, FRHistS, FRSA (born 1962) is a British historian. A professor at the University of Liverpool, he specialises in the history of crime, policing and violence in modern Britain.

Career

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Born in 1962, Davies attended Sir John Deane's Sixth Form College in Northwich before studying at King's College, Cambridge, where he read history. He completed Part I of the Historical Tripos in 1983 and Part II in 1984, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree.[1] He then carried out doctoral studies at King's.[1] For his thesis on leisure and poverty in early-20th-century Manchester and Salford[2] (supervised by A. J. Reid),[3] he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree by the University of Cambridge in 1989.[4]

By 1991, Davies was working at the University of Liverpool.[5] As of 2021, he is a professor of modern social history there.[6]

Since 2009, Davies has been a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[7]

Bibliography

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Books

  • Davies, Andrew (1992). Leisure, Gender and Poverty: Working-Class Culture in Salford and Manchester, 1900–1939. Themes in the Twentieth Century. Buckingham: Open University Press. ISBN 9780335156375.
  • Davies, Andrew; Fielding, Steven, eds. (1992). Workers' Worlds: Cultures and Communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880–1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719025433.
  • Davies, Andrew (2009). The Gangs of Manchester: The Story of the Scuttlers, Britain's First Youth Cult. Preston: Milo Books. ISBN 9781903854853.
  • Davies, Andrew (2013). City of Gangs: Glasgow and the Rise of the British Gangster. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 9781444763751.

Theses

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

References

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  1. ^ a b John Butler and Martin Butler Booth (eds), A Register of Admissions to King's College, Cambridge, 1945–1982 (Cambridge: King's College Association, 1989), p. 511. OCLC 23012198
  2. ^ Davies 1989.
  3. ^ "Modern Britain and Ireland – Awarded 1980–89", History Theses 1970–2014: Historical Research for Higher Degrees in the Universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (British History Online). Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  4. ^ Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 July 1998 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 193.
  5. ^ Davies 1991, p. 87.
  6. ^ "History Teaching Staff", University of Liverpool. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Andrew Davies: Professional Activities", University of Liverpool. Retrieved 7 June 2021.