Daniel O'Neill

Contact

• workRoom A7 Lenton Grove
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work+44 (0)115 74 84107
• Daniel.O'Neill@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I am cultural and social historian of contemporary Britain.

My research focuses mainly on the British tobacco industry and how it negotiated the smoking and health issue during the second half of the twentieth century. As such, I am interested in the histories of public health, advertising and consumerism.

Currently, I work on the Wellcome Trust-funded 'Kicking the Habit' project as a postdoctoral research associate. The project aims to critically examine the sponsorship of sports such as Formula 1, cricket and football by the addictive industries of tobacco, alcohol and gambling. Since the 1960s, sponsorship has become pervasive within British sport. The project will interrogate the relationships between industry and sport and assess the health harms that the sponsorship of sport by addictive industries has produced.

In addition to my research activity, I have extensive experience of teaching history at various universities, including, here, the University of Nottingham, the University of Strathclyde and Loughborough University.

Teaching Summary

I teach on the following first-year undergraduate modules:

• HIST1001, Learning History

During the Autumn semester, my office hour is on a Wednesday at 11-12noon in room A15 in Lenton Grove.

Selected Publications

• DANIEL O'NEILL, 2017. ‘People Love Player’s’: Cigarette Advertising and the Teenage Consumer in Post-war Britain Twentieth Century British History. 28(3), 414–439
• DANIEL O'NEILL, 2020. Review: Skateboarding and religion: by Paul O’Connor, Basingstoke UK/New York, US, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 304 pp., ISBN 978-3-030-24856-7 Leisure Studies.

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• DANIEL O'NEILL and ANNA GREENWOOD, 2022. ‘‘Bringing you the Best”: John Player & Sons, cricket and the politics of tobacco sport sponsorship in Britain, 1969-1986 European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health. 80(1), 152-184
• DANIEL O'NEILL, 2022. Review: The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945: by Alistair Kefford, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xi+340 pp., (£90.00) (hbk), ISBN 978 1 1088 3669 2, (£64.99) (ebk), ISBN 978 1 1088 7450 2 Contemporary British History. 1-2
• DANIEL O'NEILL, 2020. Review: Skateboarding and religion: by Paul O’Connor, Basingstoke UK/New York, US, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 304 pp., ISBN 978-3-030-24856-7 Leisure Studies.
• DANIEL O'NEILL, 2017. ‘People Love Player’s’: Cigarette Advertising and the Teenage Consumer in Post-war Britain Twentieth Century British History. 28(3), 414–439