Wednesday 18th March 2026

Doors open 6.45pm. Lecture starts at 7.30pm

Professor Adrian Bingham. University of Sheffield

“Politics is something outside everyday life: Understanding democratic engagement in twentieth-century Britain‘’

Professor Adrian Bingham is head of the History School at Sheffield University where he has taught since 2006.  His research has focused on modern British History with particular interest in popular culture, the media, sexuality and how the public engage with politics.  He has written extensively about the national popular press since World War I including his work with Professor Martin Conboy Tabloid Century. His most recent book, Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives: A New History of British Democracy, 1918-1992 (2024) examined how British citizens understood politics and how they viewed its relationship to their lives from 1918 to 1992

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