Dave Russell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3833206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dave Russell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dave |
| FAMILY NAME | Russell |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4924-1513 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Blaze in the Northern Sky”. Leisure, Popular Culture and ‘Northernness’
‘Weird and eery chords’
Popularized by Native Hawaiian musicians between 1914 and the early 1920s, the Hawaiian steel guitar steadily attracted a constituency of British players, largely amateur but also containing a body of professional and semi-professionals. These were mainly male, typically young and drawn from the lower-middle and working classes. Early audiences often found the ‘strange’ beauty of the instrument, and Hawaiian music more widely, a form of ethnic no…
Yet another guitar recital filled the Wigmore Hall’
The popularity of the classical guitar in Britain surged between 1950 and 1970. The virtuosity of elite professionals led by the pioneering Andrés Segovia and the new stars Julian Bream and John Williams earned the classical instrument considerable purchase within the wider culture. Above all, it inspired thousands of largely middle-class, male, relatively young and urban amateur players, attracted not simply by the instrument’s intrinsic appeal …
Leisure and class in Victorian England. Rational recreation and the contest for control, 1830–1885
The study of British popular leisure emerged as a key feature of the ‘new’ social history of the 1960s and 1970s as a result of the collective impact of a body of scholarship rather than a single l
Glimpsing La Dolce Vita
Although the arrival of television in 1950s Britain weakened some traditions of live entertainment, an active culture of live performance developed in the 1960s in the clubs of the English north and midlands. Focusing on the commercial “cabaret” or “theatre” clubs offering “mainstream” entertainment for largely working- and lower-middle class audiences, this study begins by examining the clubs' origins within the context of the new “affluence,” s…
The Cambridge Companion to Cricket
A reporter trying to reach to the heart of what football is’. Arthur Hopcraft's The Football Man
This article examines the origins, content and overall significance of Arthur Hopcraft's The Football Man: People and Passions in Football, published in 1968. Notable for its polished style and laconic humour, and packed with rich detail garnered from the interviews that form much of its research base, the book is acknowledged as a valuable source for the study of the game at a critical moment in its modernization. However, the book is also seen …
British Railway Enthusiasm – By Ian Carter
Regional Identities in North-East England, 1300-2000
Journal Article Regional Identities in North-East England, 1300–2000 Get access Regional Identities in North-East England, 1300–2000, ed. Adrian Green and A.J. Pollard (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2007; pp. xvi + 235. £50). Dave Russell Dave Russell Leeds Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 515, August 2010, Pages 1032–1034, https://doi.org/…
Province, Metropolis, and the Literary Career of Phyllis Bentley in the 1930s
In spite of a welcome and ever growing academic interest in the lives and work of twentieth-century women writers the Yorkshire novelist, Phyllis Bentley, has remained resolutely hidden from view. This article seeks to demonstrate her importance as a ‘middlebrow’ novelist, particularly in the 1930s, and to examine the ways in which her career sheds light on contemporary relationships between the ‘provincial’ and the ‘metropolitan’. Through consid…
Mum's the Word
The English cyclist, Beryl Burton, was one of the few women athletes whose performances matched and sometimes surpassed those of men. Despite the potential threat to hegemonic gender relations thus posed, Burton was, with the important exception of a well‐publicised disagreement with her fellow‐cyclist daughter, Denise, an uncontroversial figure and much respected within the male sporting community. While many personal and sporting factors contri…
Abiding memories
The community singing movement was a distinctive feature of English popular musical life in the mid-1920s. Although initiated by individuals who saw it as essentially educational, it was rapidly appropriated by sections of the press, and especially the Daily Express, as an instrument in the circulation wars of the period. It was typified by a restricted range of music comprising 'national' songs, hymns (with the performance of 'Abide with Me' at …
We All Agree, Name the Stand after Shankly’
The 1990s saw a dramatic increase in the practices of commemoration and memorialization within English (and, indeed, British) football. Focusing on public responses to the deaths of players and managers, this study suggests that while this parallels wider changes in the public culture of grieving within society, it also reflects important cultural shifts within the football world. In particular, it forms part of a wider, if sometimes contested, g…
Selling Bradford
The city of Bradford has been a pioneer of urbanlindustrial tourism since 1979, believing that, amongst other things, tourism would improve an image rooted in longheld notions about the unattractiveness of the industrial north and tarnished by a series of high profile social and economic problems. Although the strategy has had some success, the decision to place the city in the public spotlight has proved problematic. Representations of the city …
Freeing the female body
More than a Match
The University of Central Lancashire has undertaken a major research project into the role of football within the deaf community in Britain. As well as reconstructing the long history of deaf involvement in football for the first time, the project has also focused on the way in which football has provided deaf people with a means of developing and maintaining social contacts within the community, and of expressing the community’s cultural values.…
Training apprentices
This article is rooted in the contention that the football industry is characterized by the often unique manner in which it deals with its young workers. After a short overview of the history of the football apprentice, the bulk of the article explores the recently established ‘Football Scholarship’ scheme, using data drawn from interviews with 21 apprentices in three English Football League clubs. It asks whether the new scheme will, as contende…
Victorian Music
(1998). Victorian Music: A Perspective. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 111-122
Raphael Samuel, History Workshop and the value of democratic scholarship
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The 'social history' of popular music
During the coffee break at a recent conference, I described myself to a new acquaintance as 'a social historian of music'. He replied that he was glad to meet me as he now knew all four of us. The 'club', of course, has never been quite that exclusive, but the joke highlighted the essentially submerged and inchoate nature of work in this field. What follows is a decidedly personal article, designed not as a polished, final argument but as a revie…
Race, the new right and state policy in Britain
Much has been written about the ‘New Right’ and ‘new’ racism. However, it is apparent that the content of current emphases ignores both the complexities of New Right’ ideology and its use of perspectives and attitudes from earlier periods. Indeed, it appears that ‘race’ is not, at least in practical terms, a leading feature of Thatcherite government and policy, despite certain well‐publicized instances and the rhetoric of critics of the ‘New Righ…
We All Agree, Name the Stand after Shankly’
The 1990s saw a dramatic increase in the practices of commemoration and memorialization within English (and, indeed, British) football. Focusing on public responses to the deaths of players and managers, this study suggests that while this parallels wider changes in the public culture of grieving within society, it also reflects important cultural shifts within the football world. In particular, it forms part of a wider, if sometimes contested, g…
More than a Match
The University of Central Lancashire has undertaken a major research project into the role of football within the deaf community in Britain. As well as reconstructing the long history of deaf involvement in football for the first time, the project has also focused on the way in which football has provided deaf people with a means of developing and maintaining social contacts within the community, and of expressing the community’s cultural values.…
Training apprentices
This article is rooted in the contention that the football industry is characterized by the often unique manner in which it deals with its young workers. After a short overview of the history of the football apprentice, the bulk of the article explores the recently established ‘Football Scholarship’ scheme, using data drawn from interviews with 21 apprentices in three English Football League clubs. It asks whether the new scheme will, as contende…
Abiding memories
The community singing movement was a distinctive feature of English popular musical life in the mid-1920s. Although initiated by individuals who saw it as essentially educational, it was rapidly appropriated by sections of the press, and especially the Daily Express, as an instrument in the circulation wars of the period. It was typified by a restricted range of music comprising 'national' songs, hymns (with the performance of 'Abide with Me' at …
The 'social history' of popular music
During the coffee break at a recent conference, I described myself to a new acquaintance as 'a social historian of music'. He replied that he was glad to meet me as he now knew all four of us. The 'club', of course, has never been quite that exclusive, but the joke highlighted the essentially submerged and inchoate nature of work in this field. What follows is a decidedly personal article, designed not as a polished, final argument but as a revie…
Leisure and class in Victorian England. Rational recreation and the contest for control, 1830–1885
The study of British popular leisure emerged as a key feature of the ‘new’ social history of the 1960s and 1970s as a result of the collective impact of a body of scholarship rather than a single l
Mum's the Word
The English cyclist, Beryl Burton, was one of the few women athletes whose performances matched and sometimes surpassed those of men. Despite the potential threat to hegemonic gender relations thus posed, Burton was, with the important exception of a well‐publicised disagreement with her fellow‐cyclist daughter, Denise, an uncontroversial figure and much respected within the male sporting community. While many personal and sporting factors contri…
Victorian Music
(1998). Victorian Music: A Perspective. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 111-122
Raphael Samuel, History Workshop and the value of democratic scholarship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Race, the new right and state policy in Britain
Much has been written about the ‘New Right’ and ‘new’ racism. However, it is apparent that the content of current emphases ignores both the complexities of New Right’ ideology and its use of perspectives and attitudes from earlier periods. Indeed, it appears that ‘race’ is not, at least in practical terms, a leading feature of Thatcherite government and policy, despite certain well‐publicized instances and the rhetoric of critics of the ‘New Righ…
The 'social history' of popular music
During the coffee break at a recent conference, I described myself to a new acquaintance as 'a social historian of music'. He replied that he was glad to meet me as he now knew all four of us. The 'club', of course, has never been quite that exclusive, but the joke highlighted the essentially submerged and inchoate nature of work in this field. What follows is a decidedly personal article, designed not as a polished, final argument but as a revie…
Raphael Samuel, History Workshop and the value of democratic scholarship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Victorian Music
(1998). Victorian Music: A Perspective. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 111-122
Training apprentices
This article is rooted in the contention that the football industry is characterized by the often unique manner in which it deals with its young workers. After a short overview of the history of the football apprentice, the bulk of the article explores the recently established ‘Football Scholarship’ scheme, using data drawn from interviews with 21 apprentices in three English Football League clubs. It asks whether the new scheme will, as contende…
More than a Match
The University of Central Lancashire has undertaken a major research project into the role of football within the deaf community in Britain. As well as reconstructing the long history of deaf involvement in football for the first time, the project has also focused on the way in which football has provided deaf people with a means of developing and maintaining social contacts within the community, and of expressing the community’s cultural values.…
Freeing the female body
Selling Bradford
The city of Bradford has been a pioneer of urbanlindustrial tourism since 1979, believing that, amongst other things, tourism would improve an image rooted in longheld notions about the unattractiveness of the industrial north and tarnished by a series of high profile social and economic problems. Although the strategy has had some success, the decision to place the city in the public spotlight has proved problematic. Representations of the city …
We All Agree, Name the Stand after Shankly’
The 1990s saw a dramatic increase in the practices of commemoration and memorialization within English (and, indeed, British) football. Focusing on public responses to the deaths of players and managers, this study suggests that while this parallels wider changes in the public culture of grieving within society, it also reflects important cultural shifts within the football world. In particular, it forms part of a wider, if sometimes contested, g…
Province, Metropolis, and the Literary Career of Phyllis Bentley in the 1930s
In spite of a welcome and ever growing academic interest in the lives and work of twentieth-century women writers the Yorkshire novelist, Phyllis Bentley, has remained resolutely hidden from view. This article seeks to demonstrate her importance as a ‘middlebrow’ novelist, particularly in the 1930s, and to examine the ways in which her career sheds light on contemporary relationships between the ‘provincial’ and the ‘metropolitan’. Through consid…
Mum's the Word
The English cyclist, Beryl Burton, was one of the few women athletes whose performances matched and sometimes surpassed those of men. Despite the potential threat to hegemonic gender relations thus posed, Burton was, with the important exception of a well‐publicised disagreement with her fellow‐cyclist daughter, Denise, an uncontroversial figure and much respected within the male sporting community. While many personal and sporting factors contri…
Abiding memories
The community singing movement was a distinctive feature of English popular musical life in the mid-1920s. Although initiated by individuals who saw it as essentially educational, it was rapidly appropriated by sections of the press, and especially the Daily Express, as an instrument in the circulation wars of the period. It was typified by a restricted range of music comprising 'national' songs, hymns (with the performance of 'Abide with Me' at …
A reporter trying to reach to the heart of what football is’. Arthur Hopcraft's The Football Man
This article examines the origins, content and overall significance of Arthur Hopcraft's The Football Man: People and Passions in Football, published in 1968. Notable for its polished style and laconic humour, and packed with rich detail garnered from the interviews that form much of its research base, the book is acknowledged as a valuable source for the study of the game at a critical moment in its modernization. However, the book is also seen …
British Railway Enthusiasm – By Ian Carter
Regional Identities in North-East England, 1300-2000
Journal Article Regional Identities in North-East England, 1300–2000 Get access Regional Identities in North-East England, 1300–2000, ed. Adrian Green and A.J. Pollard (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2007; pp. xvi + 235. £50). Dave Russell Dave Russell Leeds Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 515, August 2010, Pages 1032–1034, https://doi.org/…
The Cambridge Companion to Cricket
Glimpsing La Dolce Vita
Although the arrival of television in 1950s Britain weakened some traditions of live entertainment, an active culture of live performance developed in the 1960s in the clubs of the English north and midlands. Focusing on the commercial “cabaret” or “theatre” clubs offering “mainstream” entertainment for largely working- and lower-middle class audiences, this study begins by examining the clubs' origins within the context of the new “affluence,” s…
Leisure and class in Victorian England. Rational recreation and the contest for control, 1830–1885
The study of British popular leisure emerged as a key feature of the ‘new’ social history of the 1960s and 1970s as a result of the collective impact of a body of scholarship rather than a single l
Yet another guitar recital filled the Wigmore Hall’
The popularity of the classical guitar in Britain surged between 1950 and 1970. The virtuosity of elite professionals led by the pioneering Andrés Segovia and the new stars Julian Bream and John Williams earned the classical instrument considerable purchase within the wider culture. Above all, it inspired thousands of largely middle-class, male, relatively young and urban amateur players, attracted not simply by the instrument’s intrinsic appeal …
‘Weird and eery chords’
Popularized by Native Hawaiian musicians between 1914 and the early 1920s, the Hawaiian steel guitar steadily attracted a constituency of British players, largely amateur but also containing a body of professional and semi-professionals. These were mainly male, typically young and drawn from the lower-middle and working classes. Early audiences often found the ‘strange’ beauty of the instrument, and Hawaiian music more widely, a form of ethnic no…
A Blaze in the Northern Sky”. Leisure, Popular Culture and ‘Northernness’
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