Adrian Bingham

Adrian Bingham is a senior lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield. He has worked extensively on the British popular press in the decades after 1918, examining the ways in which newspapers both reflected and shaped attitudes to gender, sexuality and class. His most recent book is Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life, and the British Popular Press 1918-1978 (Oxford University Press, 2009). Beyond his work on the media, he is involved in projects researching popular attitudes to politics, and the circulation of knowledge about sex.