Roger Spalding
Roger Spalding currently leads the BA History programme at Edge Hill University, UK. Before his appointment at Edge Hill, he worked for a number of years in independent television production as a producer and researcher, producing, among other things, Fish'n'Ships, a two part documentary on the Grimsby fishing industry for Channel 4, which was screened in 1987, accompanied by a book of the same name. Since then he has published in a variety of areas, including articles on the Labour Party in...See more
Roger Spalding currently leads the BA History programme at Edge Hill University, UK. Before his appointment at Edge Hill, he worked for a number of years in independent television production as a producer and researcher, producing, among other things, Fish'n'Ships, a two part documentary on the Grimsby fishing industry for Channel 4, which was screened in 1987, accompanied by a book of the same name. Since then he has published in a variety of areas, including articles on the Labour Party in the Second World War in Socialist History; Labour's treatment of its centenary in New Politics; and the history of the British fishing industry in Journal of Regional and Local Studies. His most recent books include Historiography: An Introduction (with Christopher Parker; 2007) and an edited collection Entertainment, Leisure and Identities (with Alyson Brown; 2007). See less
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