Dr Guy Hodgson
Liverpool Screen School

Faculty: Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
School: Liverpool Screen School
Email address: G.R.Hodgson@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 3856
Dr Guy Hodgson was a journalist for more than 30 years during which he worked on the staffs of the BBC and The Independent for more than 20. His academic career took him to Central Lancashire, Chester and Liverpool John Moores universities before his retirement in 2020. He continues to lecture on a sessional basis at LJMU.
His research has principally looked at how UK newspapers have reported historical events, including a book on the Manchester Blitz, but he has also produced academic articles on sport,
Degrees
2014, University of Chester, United Kingdom, PhD
2005, Open University, United Kingdom, MA
1999, Open University, United Kingdom, BA
Academic appointments
Senior Lecturer, Media, University of Chester, 2013 - 2015
Head of Media, Media, University of Chester, 2009 - 2013
Deputy Head of Media, Media, University of Chester, 2007 - 2009
Senior Lecturer, Journalism, University of Central Lancashire, 2000 - 2007
Highlighted publications
Hodgson GR. 2017. It Makes Me Spit: The Public and Newspaper Reaction to the UK Governmentr's Threat to Suppress the Daily Mirror Conflict, Trauma and the Media: A Collection of Essays :107-127 Cambridge Scholars. Cambridge Publisher Url Public Url
Hodgson GR. 2016. Nurse, martyr, propaganda tool: the reporting of Edith Cavell in British newspapers 1915-1920 Media, War and Conflict, 10 :239-253 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Hodgson GR. War Torn: Manchester, its Press and the Luftwaffe's Blitz of 1940 Unuiversity of Chester Press 9-781908-258151 Public Url
Hodgson GR. Too big to love? Manchester United, Local Identity and Mediatised Displacement Roberts SG. Sport Media and Regional Identity Cambridge Scholars Publisher Url Public Url
Books (authored)
Matthews R, Hodgson G. 2023. LOCAL JOURNALISM: Critical Perspectives on the Provincial Newspaper :1-220 9781138366336 DOI Publisher Url
Markham T, Howarth A, Mancinelli V, Chen ZT, Heywood E, Hodgson GR, Roberts SG, Baines D, Wyton F. 2017. Conflict, Trauma and the Media: A Collection of Essays Hodgson GR. :1-175 Cambridge Scholars. Cambridge, UK Publisher Url
Hodgson G, Hart C, Paris M, Badsey P, Meier K, Van der Heijden C, Bizimana A-J, Southall H, Machin B. 2015. World War II and the Media Hodgson GR, Christopher Hart SGR. University of Chester
Hodgson GR. War Torn: Manchester, its Press and the Luftwaffe's Blitz of 1940 Unuiversity of Chester Press 9-781908-258151 Public Url
Editorial/letter to the editor
Hodgson G, Matthews R, Foggo N, Shoop-Worrall C, Clark T, Willis I. 2021. Provincial Newspapers: Lessons from History Hodgson G, Matthews R. Media History, 27 :125-267 DOI Publisher Url
Journal article
Hodgson G, Matthews R. 2021. Never Failed? Media History, 27 :162-176 DOI Publisher Url
Hodgson GR, Matthews R. 2020. Never failed? The local reporting of the Blitzes in Coventry and Liverpool in 1940 and 1941. Media History, 27 :162-176 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Hodgson GR. 2019. 'Sadly forgotten'?: Newspaper coverage of the first men to fly the Atlantic non-stop, Alcock and Brown Media History, 4 :30-44 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Hodgson GR. 2019. Fields of Battle: UK Government and Public Attitudes to Sport in the Second World War Smayle B. Leisure / Loisir, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Hodgson GR. 2016. Nurse, martyr, propaganda tool: the reporting of Edith Cavell in British newspapers 1915-1920 Media, War and Conflict, 10 :239-253 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Hodgson GR. 2015. “Too ghastly to believe”? Liverpool, the press and the May Blitz of 1941 Journalism Education, 4 Publisher Url Public Url
Hodgson GR. 2007. Sir Nevile Henderson, Appeasement and the Press Journalism Studies, :320-334 DOI Publisher Url
Chapters
Hodgson G. 2021. Newspapers Steen R, Novick J, Richards H. Routledge Handbook of Sports Journalism :41-50 Routledge. Abingdon, Oxon 9781317205746 Publisher Url
Hodgson GR. 2018. Causing Unnecessary Anxiety?: British Newspapers and the Battle of Jutland Hart C. World War I Media, Entertainments & Popular Culture Midrash. Chester 9781905984213 Public Url
Hodgson GR. 2017. Introduction Conflict, Trauma and the Media: A Collection of Essays :1-11 Cambridge Scholars. Cambridge DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Hodgson GR. 2017. It Makes Me Spit: The Public and Newspaper Reaction to the UK Governmentr's Threat to Suppress the Daily Mirror Conflict, Trauma and the Media: A Collection of Essays :107-127 Cambridge Scholars. Cambridge Publisher Url Public Url
Hodgson GR. 2014. All in This Together? An Examination of Manchester Newspapers in the Aftermath of the 1940 Christmas Blitz Hart C, Hodgson G, Roberts S. World War II and the Media :86-109 University of Chester 978-1-910481-00-4
Hodgson GR. 2007. Newspaper Journalism Gregory G, Healy R, Mazierska E. Careers in Media and Film :161-171 Sage. London 978-1412923729
Hodgson GR. The Changing Face of Sports Journalism and its Relationship to Hard News Anderson PJ, Ward G. The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies :157-174 Ashgate. Aldershot, Hampshire 978-0-7546-4405-7
Hodgson GR. Too big to love? Manchester United, Local Identity and Mediatised Displacement Roberts SG. Sport Media and Regional Identity Cambridge Scholars Publisher Url Public Url
Book review
Hodgson GR. 2020. Allied Communication to the Public during the Second World War: National and Transnational Networks Michigan War Studies Review, Publisher Url Public Url
Hodgson GR. 2018. Simultaneously dismal, yet hopeful: The write places in history European Journal of Communication, 33 :445-449 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Other
Hodgson GR. 2015. Propaganda Sheets? History Today, 65 :4-5 Publisher Url Public Url
Conference publication
Hodgson GR. All In This Together? Manchester Newspapers and the Voices of Discontent in WW2 Chester Centre for Research in Arts and Media Conference
Hodgson GR. Manchester Newspapers in WW2 Conflict Studies Symposium, University of Salford, April 2013. Conflict Studies Symposium.
Highlighted activities
Fellowships:
Fellow, Royal Historical Society, Royal Historical Society. 2015
Professional activities
Conference presentation:
Causing Unnecessary Concern?: How the Battle of Jutland was Reported in British Newspapers, First World War at Sea, National Maritime Museum, Oral presentation. 2018
Munich Air Crash 1958: What if?, Munich 60 Years On: How British Sport Changed, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oral presentation. 2018
Fields of Battle: Government and Public Attitudes to Sport in the Second World War, British Society of Sports History Annual Conference, University of Worcester, Oral presentation. 2017
Narrative of Conflict: The Guardian and ‘necessary untruths’ of the Second World War, 'Comment is free but facts are sacred': The Guardian in Local, National and Global History, John Rylands Library, Manchester, Oral presentation. 2017
Too successful, too distant? Manchester United, its fans and six decades of separation, British Society of Sports History annual conference, Edinburgh, Oral presentation. 2016
Liverpool’s May Blitz 1941: A Case Study in Contrasting Narratives, Conflict, Trauma and the Media Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, Oral presentation. 2016
Edith Cavell: The Best (or Worst) of British Propaganda, Faculty of Arts, Professional and Social Studies Research Café, Liverpool John Moores University, Oral presentation. 2016
Nurse, Martyr, Propaganda Tool: The Reporting and Glorification of Edith Cavell in British Newspapers 1915-20, International Association of Media History Conference, University of Indiana, Oral presentation. 2015
William Percival Crozier: the Editor who Made the Guardian National, Communities of Communication: Newspapers and Periodicals in Britain and Ireland from 1900 to the Present, University of Sheffield, Oral presentation. 2014
Manchester in the Second World War, Newspapers, War and Society, University of Aberystwyth, Oral presentation. 2014
All in This Together? Manchester Newspapers and the Voices of Discontent in WW2, CCRAM Conference, University of Chester, Oral presentation. 2013
Manchester Newspapers in WW2, Conflict Studies, University of Salford, Oral presentation. 2013
War of Words: The Manchester Guardian in the Second World War, History, Genre, Narrative: Newspapers and the Construction of the Twentieth Century, University of Sheffield, Oral presentation. 2012
The Future of Sports Journalism, Journalism in the UK, Beijing Union University, Oral presentation. 2012
Sins of Omission: Propaganda or necessary Untruths?, SPARC Conference, University of Salford, Oral presentation. 2012
Fleet Street under the Bomb, Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Chester, Oral presentation. 2009
Newspapers in 1939: Was the Press Really Responsible for the Second World War?, Conflict Studies, University of Central Lancashire, Oral presentation. 2007
Conference organisation:
Provincial Newspapers: Lessons from History, Organiser, https://historyoftheprovincialpress.wordpress.com/. 2017
Conflict, Media and Trauma Conference, Organiser, http://royalhistsoc.org/calendar/cfp-conflict-trauma-and-the-media-deadline-1-december-2015/. 2016
Fellowships:
Fellow, Royal Historical Society, Royal Historical Society. 2015
Fellow, Higher Education Association, HEA. 2003
Industrial connections:
BBC, Future of Local Journalism Working Party. 2014
Editorial boards:
Chester Press, Member of Editorial Board. 2012
Other invited event:
World War Two and the Media Symposium, University of Chester, Co-organiser of an international symposium that attracted speakers from six countries.. 2011
Media Coverage:
Reviews of book
War Torn: Manchester, its Newspapers and the Luftwaffe's Blitz of 1940.
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