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I am an urban and digital historian of modern Britain. My PhD (awarded by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ) explored the history of the inner city in Britain from the 1960s to the 1980s. After this, I worked at Leeds Beckett University as a Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded project ‘Forged by Fire: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, 1800-2000’. I was then a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton on the AHRC-funded project ‘’. In 2022, I came back to Leicester as Teaching Fellow in Urban Global/Imperial History.

In my research, I have explored the histories of urban inequality, urban disaster, political activism, and everyday life in late twentieth-century Britain. I am currently writing a book on the urban crisis in the UK, based on my doctoral research, and co-writing a book on the history of burns injuries in modern Britain.

On the Forged by Fire project, I co-developed learning resources for primary and secondary school students on the history of the Bradford City stadium fire and the 1963 Colvilles fire. The resources can be accessed through the .

On the Telephonic Youth project, I used engaged research methods go gather stories of growing up and using the telephone in Britain from the 1980s onwards. I am interested in further exploring how public engagement can be used as a historical research method.

Aaron Andrews, Alistair Kefford and Daniel Warner, ‘Introduction—Community, Culture, Crisis: The Inner City in England, 1960-1990’, Urban History 50:2 (2023), pp. 202-13.

Aaron Andrews, ‘Truth, Justice and Expertise in 1980s Britain: the cultural politics of the New Cross massacre’, History Workshop Journal 91:1 (2021), pp. 182-209.

Shane Ewen and Aaron Andrews, ‘The Media, Affect, and Community in a Decade of Disasters: Reporting the 1985 Bradford City stadium fire’, Contemporary British History 35:2 (2021), pp. 258-83.

Aaron Andrews, ‘Dereliction, Decay, and the Problem of De-industrialisation in Britain, c. 1968-77’, Urban History 47:2 (2020), pp. 236-56.

Aaron Andrews, ‘Multiple Deprivation, the Inner City, and the Fracturing of the Welfare State: Glasgow, c. 1968-78’, Twentieth Century British History 29:4 (2018), pp. 605-24.

I currently co-convene the first-year survey module HS1002 Shock of the Modern and MA module HS7251 The City in History. I also teach a first-year option on HS1100 People and Places on Black London after 1948. Starting in 2023/24, I will co-convene the new second-year module HS2369 Digital Histories of 1960s Britain.

I also contribute to:

• HS1000 Making History
• HS1013 Modern Britain: The State We’re In
• HS2500 Becoming the Historical Researcher
• HS7310 Global History: Comparative and Connected Approaches

Social media editor, Urban History.
New Researchers Committee, Urban History Group.