Andrew Davies (historian)

For other people named Andrew Davies, see Andrew Davies (disambiguation).

Andrew Mark Davies, FRHistS, FRSA (born 1962) is a British historian. A professor at the University of Liverpool, he specialises in the history of crime, policing and violence in modern Britain.

Career

Born in 1962, Davies attended Sir John Deane's Sixth Form College in Northwich before studying at King's College, Cambridge, where he read history. He completed Part I of the Historical Tripos in 1983 and Part II in 1984, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then carried out doctoral studies at King's. For his thesis on leisure and poverty in early-20th-century Manchester and Salford (supervised by A. J. Reid), he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree by the University of Cambridge in 1989.

By 1991, Davies was working at the University of Liverpool. As of 2021, he is a professor of modern social history there.

Since 2009, Davies has been a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Bibliography

Books

• Davies, Andrew (1992). Leisure, Gender and Poverty: Working-Class Culture in Salford and Manchester, 1900–1939. Themes in the Twentieth Century. Buckingham: Open University Press. ISBN 9780335156375.
• Davies, Andrew; Fielding, Steven, eds. (1992). Workers' Worlds: Cultures and Communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880–1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719025433.
• Davies, Andrew (2009). The Gangs of Manchester: The Story of the Scuttlers, Britain's First Youth Cult. Preston: Milo Books. ISBN 9781903854853.
• Davies, Andrew (2013). City of Gangs: Glasgow and the Rise of the British Gangster. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 9781444763751.

Theses

• Davies, Andrew Mark (1989). Leisure and Poverty in Salford and Manchester, 1900–1939 (PhD). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.19717.

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

• Davies, Andrew (1991). "The Police and the People: Gambling in Salford, 1900–1939". The Historical Journal. 34 (1): 87–115. doi:10.1017/s0018246x00013947. S2CID 159538469.
• Davies, Andrew; Fielding, Steven; Wyke, Terry (1992). "Introduction". In Davies, Andrew; Fielding, Steven (eds.). Workers' Worlds: Cultures and Communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880–1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 1–22. ISBN 9780719025433.
• Davies, Andrew (1992). "Leisure in the 'Classic Slum'". In Davies, Andrew; Fielding, Steven (eds.). Workers' Worlds: Cultures and Communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880–1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 102–132. ISBN 9780719025433.
• Davies, Andrew (1998). "Youth Gangs, Masculinity and Violence in Late Victorian Manchester and Salford". Journal of Social History. 32 (2): 349–369. doi:10.1353/jsh/32.2.349.
• Davies, Andrew (1998). "Street Gangs, Crime and Policing in Glasgow during the 1930s: The Case of the Beehive Boys". Social History. 23 (3): 251–267. doi:10.1080/03071029808568037.
• Davies, Andrew (1999). "'These Viragoes Are No Less Cruel than the Lads': Young Women, Gangs and Violence in Late Victorian Manchester and Salford". British Journal of Criminology. 39 (1): 72–89. doi:10.1093/bjc/39.1.72.
• Davies, Andrew (2000). "Youth Gangs, Gender and Violence, 1870–1900". In D'Cruze, Shani (ed.). Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850–1950: Gender and Class. Women and Men in History. London: Longman. pp. 70–88. doi:10.4324/9781315838007. ISBN 9781315838007.
• Davies, Andrew (2000). "Sectarian Violence and Police Violence in Glasgow During the 1930s". In Bessel, Richard; Emsley, Clive (eds.). Patterns of Provocation: Police and Public Disorder. Oxford: Berghahn Books. pp. 41–62. ISBN 9781571812278.
• Davies, Andrew (2004). "Youth Gangs, Masculinity and Violence in Late Victorian Manchester and Salford". In Schneider, Jacqueline; Tilley, Nick (eds.). Gangs. London: Routledge. pp. 121–141. doi:10.4324/9781351157803. ISBN 9781351157803.
• Davies, Andrew (2006). "Youth, Violence, and Courtship in Late-Victorian Birmingham: The Case of James Harper and Emily Pimm". The History of the Family. 11 (2): 107–120. doi:10.1016/j.hisfam.2006.07.001. S2CID 143678361.
• Davies, Andrew (2006). "Football and Sectarianism in Glasgow during the 1920s and 1930s". Irish Historical Studies. 35 (138): 200–219. doi:10.1017/s0021121400004892. S2CID 163248253.
• Davies, Andrew (2007). "Glasgow's 'Reign of Terror': Street Gangs, Racketeering and Intimidation in the 1920s and 1930s". Contemporary British History. 21 (4): 405–427. doi:10.1080/13619460601060413. S2CID 143930954.
• Davies, Andrew (2007). "The Scottish Chicago?: From 'Hooligans' to 'Gangsters' in Inter-War Glasgow". Cultural and Social History. 4 (4): 511–527. doi:10.2752/147800407X243505. S2CID 159051613.
• Davies, Andrew; Strange, Julie-Marie (2010). "Where Angels Fear to Tread: Academics, Public Engagement and Popular History". Journal of Victorian Culture. 15 (2): 268–279. doi:10.1080/13555502.2010.491663.
• Davies, Andrew (2011). "Youth Gangs and Late Victorian Society". In Goldson, Barry (ed.). Youth in Crisis?: "Gangs", Territoriality and Violence. London: Routledge. pp. 38–54. doi:10.4324/9780203832004. ISBN 9780203832004.
• Davies, Andrew (2013). "'They Sing that Song': Football and Sectarianism in Glasgow during the 1920s and 1930s". In Flint, John; Kelly, John (eds.). Bigotry, Football and Scotland: Perspectives and Debates. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 50–64. ISBN 9780748670376. JSTOR 10.3366/j.ctt1g09whx.9.
• Davies, Andrew; Peel, Mark; Balderstone, Laura (2015). "Digital Histories of Crime and Research-Based Teaching and Learning" (PDF). Law, Crime and History. 5 (1): 93–104.
• Davies, Andrew (2016). "Histories of Hooliganism". In Hobbs, Dick (ed.). Mischief, Morality and Mobs: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Pearson. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 85–101. doi:10.4324/9781315544960. ISBN 9781315544960.
• Davies, Andrew (2017). "Youth Gangs". In Turner, Jo; Taylor, Paul; Corteen, Karen; Morley, Sharon (eds.). A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice. Companions in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Bristol: Policy Press. pp. 291–296. ISBN 9781447325871.
• Davies, Andrew (2019). "Police Violence and Judicial Bias in the Age of Mass Democracy: Glasgow, 1933–1935". Social History. 44 (1): 57–85. doi:10.1080/03071022.2019.1545363. S2CID 150752097.
• Davies, Andrew (2020). "Reinvestigating the London 'Hooligan' Panic of 1898". The English Historical Review. 135 (576): 1229–1259. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceaa257.