Dr James Nott
Dr James Nott

Dr James Nott

B.A., MSt, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS, Lecturer

 
Contact Details

E-mail - jjn4@st-and.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462918
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914


 

Teaching and Research Interests

Twentieth Century British Social and Cultural History; Popular Culture and Leisure (esp. music, dance halls); history of Mass Media (cinema, radio, gramophone); the British Film Industry; the BBC; Class and Culture; Interwar Britain; Second World War Home Front. Research to date has focused on several neglected areas of culture in early twentieth century Britain, notably, popular music and dance halls. These vital aspects of popular culture have been examined in relation to the development of an increasingly affluent and consumer oriented population; as part of a new wave of businesses adopting modern marketing and advertising techniques; and as part of an increasingly cosmopolitan ‘mass culture’, influenced by Americanisation, mechanisation and commercialisation. Current research includes: reactions to jazz and dancing in 1920s Britain; women and dance halls; and a social and cultural history of dance halls in Britain in the Twentieth Century.

More about Dr Nott's research project 'Going to the Palais: a social and cultural history of the dance hall in Britain, c.1918-60 '.

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Main Publications

Books
  • C. Griffiths, J.Nott, W. Whyte (eds.), Cultures, Classes, and Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin (OUP, 2011) [Details]

  • James J. Nott, Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain (OUP, Oxford Historical Monographs 2002) – awarded proxime accesit to the Whitfield Prize, Royal Historical Society, 2002 [Details]
Contributions to edited volumes
  • J. Nott, '"The Plague Spots of London": William Joynson-Hicks, the Conservative Party and the Campaign against London's nightclubs, 1924-29' in C. Griffiths, J. Nott, W, Whyte (eds.), Cultures, Classes and Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin (OUP, forthcoming 2010)
  • B. Harrison (ed.), New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004)
    Articles:
    Heimann, Carl Louis Bertram Reinhold (1896-1968), businessman; Caldicott, Alfred James (1842-1897), organist and composer ;Cellier, Alfred (1844-1891), composer and conductor ;Coward, Sir Henry (1849-1944), chorus master ;MacKinlay, Antoinette Sterling (1843-1904), singer ;Moir, Frank Lewis (1852-1904), composer ;Molloy, James Lynam (1837-1909), composer

  • J. Ramsden (ed.),The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics (Oxford University Press, 2002)
    Entries:
    Welfare State/ National Health Service/ Old Age Pensions/ Seebohm Rowntree/ Holidays with Pay

 

Administrative Duties

Sub Honours Advisor (Modern History)
Visiting Day Representative for Modern History
Classic British Cinema Program

Teaching Duties

Participates in the teaching of Second Level Modern History and offers the following Honours courses:

Participates in the teaching of the following Postgraduate course:

Research Students

  • Martin Dibbs, Shaping popular culture: radio broadcasting, mass entertainment and the work of the BBC Variety Department 1933-1967

 

Main Publications

Music for the People