Professor of English and Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University
I am a cultural historian with a particular interest in everyday life. Alongside my academic research, I write regularly for newspapers and magazines such as the Guardian, the Financial Times, the New Statesman, The Times, Times Higher Education, BBC History Magazine, History Today, Literary Review and others. My books include Queuing for Beginners (2007), On Roads: A Hidden History (2009) and Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV (2013). My book Shrinking Violets: A Field Guide to Shyness was published by Profile Books in the UK in 2016. A revised American edition, Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness, has just been published by Yale University Press.
Is your smartphone making you shy?
Feb 22, 2017 04:37 am UTC| Life Technology
During the three years Ive spent researching and writing about shyness, one of the most common questions people ask is about the relationship between shyness and technology. Are the internet and the cellphone causing...
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