Jeffrey Richards (born c.1945)[1] is a British historian.
Educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, he is Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University. A leading cultural historian and film critic, he is the author of over 15 books on British cultural history. His books include The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages 476–752 (1979), and Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and His World (2005). He is also a Companion of the Guild of St George.
Selected publications
Richards, Jeffrey (2017), China and the Chinese in Popular Film: From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan, Cinema and Society, London: I. B. Tauris, ISBN978-1350212138
Richards, Jeffrey; Newey, Katherine; Yeandle, Peter, eds. (2016), Politics, Performance, and Popular Culture: Theatre and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Studies in Popular Culture, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN978-0719091698
Richards, Jeffrey, ed. (1994), Sir Henry Irving: Theatre, Culture and Society; Essays, Addresses and Lectures (1st ed.), Keele: Ryburn, ISBN978-1-85331062-1
Richards, Jeffrey (1984), Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain 1930-1939 (1st ed.), London: Routledge, ISBN978-0-41504666-4 (2nd ed.) I. B. Tauris, 2010, ISBN978-1-84885122-1
Richards, Jeffrey; Aldgate, Anthony (1983), Best of British: Cinema and Society from 1930 to the present (1st ed.), Oxford: Basil Blackwell, ISBN978-0-63113018-5 (2nd ed.) I. B. Tauris, 1999, ISBN978-1-86064288-3