Nicola Bishop

I am a cultural and media historian who is interested in gender, class and popular culture. My first book, Lower-Middle-Class Nation (Bloomsbury, 2021) looked at the ways that the suburban white-collar classes are represented in everyday life – using mainly comic examples from sitcoms, films, novels, and newsprint. I have also published on contemporary and classic crime fiction, adaptation, nature writing, and am currently working on various projects related to British comedy in the 1990s.

I teach History at Loughborough University, where I specialise in modern British history and interdisciplinary Liberal Arts. Prior to this I was a senior lecturer in English, Film and Television at Manchester Metropolitan University.