Research
Research interests
- British television in the late twentieth century.
- Popular culture in late twentieth century Britain.
- Social and cultural history.
- Digital Humanities methods.
Current research
My doctoral project focuses on television gameshows in late twentieth century Britain. Entitled 'Look at what you could have won': A Social and Cultural History of British Television Gameshows, c. 1960-1997, the project looks at a well-loved form of popular culture, which has been maligned within academic study. Studying programmes like Mastermind, Bullseye, and University Challenge, this research project is most interested in investigating ideas of knowledge and 'ordinariness' on these programmes.
I have wider research interests in histories of technology use in twentieth century Britain. My work on the early adoption of television used the archived social research transcripts and fieldnotes of the anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer to investigate how British adults negotiated the role of television into their communal and domestic lives in the late 1950s. The paper produced from this research was awarded the Institute of Historical Research and History Lab's Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26.