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Dr Andrzej Olechnowicz

(email at a.j.olechnowicz@durham.ac.uk)

Andrzej Olechnowicz has research interests in the social and cultural history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. His current research lies in two areas: the evolution and character of the British monarchy since 1837, seeking to understand its popularity and influence in shaping national identity; and notions of ‘leisure’, ‘community’ and ‘mass society’ in inter-war Britain. Teaching specialisms include nineteenth-century social history, the impact of twentieth-century wars in shaping British society and social policy, and the origins of the Edwardian Liberal welfare reforms.

Research Projects

Department of Geography

• Health Inequalities in an Age of Austerity, Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Grant, £1 million

Research Interests

• British anti-fascism in the 1930s
• British social history since 1830
• The modern British monarchy

Publications

Books: authored

• (1997). Working-class Housing in England between the Wars: the Becontree Estate. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edited essays

• (co-ed. with Nigel Copsey) (2010). Varieties of Anti-fascism. Britain in the Inter-war Period. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• (2007). The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Essays in edited volumes

• Olechnowicz, A. (2010). Introduction: Historians and the Study of Anti-fascism. In Varieties of Anti-fascism. Britain in the Inter-war Period. Nigel Copsey & Andrzej Olechnowicz Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-27.
• Olechnowicz, A. (2010). Labour theorises fascism: A.D. Lindsay and Harold Laski. In Varieties of Anti-fascism. Britain in the Inter-war Period. Nigel Copsey & Andrzej Olechnowicz Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 202-23.
• Olechnowicz, A. (2007). 'A jealous hatred': royal popularity and social inequality. In The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present. Andrzej Olechnowicz Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 280-314.
• Olechnowicz, A. (2007). Historians and the modern British monarchy. In The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present. Andrzej Olechnowicz Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 6-44.

Journal papers: academic

• Olechnowicz, A. (2005). Liberal anti-fascism in the 1930s the case of Sir Ernest Barker. Albion 36(4): 636-660.
• Olechnowicz, A. (2005). Unemployed workers, 'enforced leisure' and education for 'the right use of leisure' in Britain in the 1930s. Labour History Review 70(1): 27-52.
• Olechnowicz, A J (2000). Civic leadership and education for democracy: the Simons and the Wythenshawe estate. Contemporary British History 14: 3-26.
• Olechnowicz, A J (2000). Union first, politics after: Oldham cotton unions and the Labour party before 1914. Manchester Region History Review 14: 3-13.