Staff profile

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.

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

Authored book

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

Chapter in book

• Olechnowicz, A. (2017). 'For the many may be better than the few’: republicans and anti-monarchism in contemporary Britain. In A. Pankratz, & C.-U. Viol (Eds.), (un)Making the Monarchy (201-226). Universitätsverlag Winter
• Olechnowicz, A. (2011). Britain's 'Quasi-Magical Monarchy' in the Mid-Twentieth Century. In C. V. Griffiths, J. J. Nott, & W. Whyte (Eds.), Classes, Cultures and Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin (70-84). Oxford University Press
• Olechnowicz, A. (2010). Labour theorises fascism: A.D. Lindsay and Harold Laski. In N. Copsey, & A. Olechnowicz (Eds.), Varieties of Anti-fascism. Britain in the Inter-war Period (202-23). Palgrave Macmillan
• Olechnowicz, A. (2010). Introduction: Historians and the Study of Anti-fascism. In N. Copsey, & A. Olechnowicz (Eds.), Varieties of Anti-fascism. Britain in the Inter-war Period (1-27). Palgrave Macmillan
• Olechnowicz, A. (2007). Historians and the modern British monarchy. In A. Olechnowicz (Ed.), The monarchy and the British nation, 1780 to the present (6-44). Cambridge University Press
• Olechnowicz, A. (2007). 'A jealous hatred': royal popularity and social inequality. In A. Olechnowicz (Ed.), The monarchy and the British nation, 1780 to the present (280-314). Cambridge University Press

Edited book

• Copsey, N., & Olechnowicz, A. (Eds.). (2010). Varieties of Anti-fascism. Britain in the Inter-war Period. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282674
• Olechnowicz, A. (Ed.). (2007). The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present. Cambridge University Press

Journal Article

• 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. https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.70.1.27
• Olechnowicz, A. (2005). Liberal anti-fascism in the 1930s : the case of Sir Ernest Barker. Albion (Boone), 36(4), 636-660. https://doi.org/10.2307/4054585
• Olechnowicz, A. (2000). Civic leadership and education for democracy: the Simons and the Wythenshawe estate. Contemporary British History, 14, 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619460008581569
• Olechnowicz, A. (2000). Union first, politics after: Oldham cotton unions and the Labour party before 1914