Historian talks footy and bridges

Dr Tosh Warwick is a Research Associate in the History Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Dr Tosh Warwick did several public lectures in Middlesbrough as part of the town's Local History Month. He spoke about his research specialisms in football and bridges, specifically North Korea’s famous victory over Italy at the 1966 FIFA World Cup matches at Ayresome Park and the origins of a most unlikely international friendship between the north east town and North Korea that has endured into the twenty-first century, and the history of the famous Newport and Transporter Bridges.

Northern Echo Coverage of Tosh Warwick's research (published recently in the North Korean Review) and subsequent public lecture can be found here. You can also read about this in another article here.

Middlesbrough Football Club also covered the research on their website and social media. Read their coverage here.

The research also featured on Playing Pasts - a magazine of sport and leisure led by Manchester Met academic, Professor Dave Day and Margaret Roberts as Editor-in-Chief. Read more here.

Both talks were also covered by The Teesside Gazette.

Dr Tosh Warwick joined Manchester Metropolitan University in January 2019 as Research Associate (Impact) in the History Research Centre. Tosh was previously Research Associate in Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, lectured at Huddersfield, Leeds Beckett and Teesside Universities and held a number of roles in the heritage sector including as Heritage Development Officer at Middlesbrough Council where he contributed to a number of major Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) supported regeneration projects.