Dr Marcus Collins

Marcus Collins is Senior Lecturer in Cultural History at the University of Loughborough. He researches permissiveness, popular culture, national identity, gender, sexuality, historiography and the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Britain. He is the author of Modern Love: An Intimate History of Men and Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (Atlantic, 2003) and the editor of The Permissive Society and its Enemies: Sixties British Culture (Rivers Oram, 2007). He is currently working on two book-length projects: ‘The Beatles and the Permissive Society’ and ‘Experiencing Modernity in Late Twentieth-Century Britain’.