Dr Tosh Warwick
School of Geography and Planning
Research Associate
+44 7591093136
Full contact details
School of Geography and Planning
D7a
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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Dr Tosh Warwick is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FHistS), historian and Research Associate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Tosh has extensive research and policy experience in industrial heritage, urban regeneration and football history. He has contributed to National Lottery Heritage Fund, Historic England, public and private projects, including High Street Heritage Action Zone schemes (HSHAZ). Tosh has expertise in cultural and museum consultancy, education outreach, archival research and project management. He has appeared as expert contributor for BBC TV and Radio (Match of the Day 2, Great British Railway Journeys, Great Coastal Railway Journeys, Inside Out), ITV, Channel 5, Teesside Gazette, The Northern Echo and Vice. He has authored numerous academic articles, including for Routledge’s Historical Resources series and Urban History. Tosh has written books on sporting and local history including 'A Town of Immigrants' (2019), 'Memories of Middlesbrough in the 1970s and 1980s' (2020), 'Memories of Mannion: South Bank's Golden Boy' (2020). 'Historic Middlesbrough' (2022) and (co-author) 'River Tees: From Source to Sea' (2016). He is a 'Heritage, Environment, Spaces and Places’ strand convenor of the Social History Society Conference and has served on a number of heritage and history bodies and taskforces.
- Qualifications
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PhD History (Huddersfield)
MA History (Teesside)
BA (Hons) History (Lancaster)
PGCert Education (Manchester Metropolitan)
- Research interests
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Tosh has research interests in urban history, industrial heritage and regeneration. His PhD focused on urban elites and urban governance in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the manufacturing town and he has published on the role of industrialists in shaping business, culture, politics and philanthropic activities in Victorian and Edwardian Teesside.
His recent research has explored urban regeneration initiatives, sustainable industrial heritage policy, heritage-led regeneration and the experience of northern industrial centres during the FIFA World Cup in 1966, including place promotion and identity in host city Sheffield and sporting diplomacy arising from North Korea's participation in the tournament in Middlesbrough. His current work explores the interactions between urban history, heritage and universities beyond the academy.
- Publications
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Books
- The Tees Newport Bridge The Untold Story of a Steel River Landmark. Heritage Unlocked.
- Last Orders! Middlesbrough's Lost & Historic Pubs. United Kingdom: Heritage Unlocked.
- Historic Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough: Heritage Unlocked.
- Memories of Stockton-on-Tees in the 1970s and 1980s. Middlesbrough: Heritage Unlocked.
- Memories of Middlesbrough in the 1970s and 1980s. Middlesbrough: Heritage Unlocked.
- Memories of Mannion: South Bank's 'Golden Boy'. Middlesbrough: Black Path Press. View this article in WRRO
- A town of immigrants : histories of migration. Middlesbrough, UK: Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. View this article in WRRO
- River Tees From Source to Sea. Amberley Pub Plc.
- Central Middlesbrough Through Time. Through Time.
- Land, Sea and Sky A Celebration of Industry and the Natural Environment at the Tees Transporter Bridge.
Journal articles
- ‘A firm foundation for future understanding, respect and friendship’: the ideals and reality of post-war town twinning, 1945–2020. Urban History, 1-16. View this article in WRRO
- Introduction: urban history beyond the academy. Urban History, 48(2), 290-291.
- Challenging the 'decline' of the industrial elite in the manufacturing town : Middlesbrough's steel magnates and the urban sphere 1880-1931. The Local Historian, 49(3), 230-238. View this article in WRRO
- Breaking ground: art, archaeology & mythology. Sport in History, 39(1), 116-119.
- The FIFA world cup, international friendship and the mystery men of the east: When Middlesbrough fell in love with North Korea. North Korean Review, 15(1), 51-72.
- Flying over an Olive Grove: The remarkable story of Fred Spiksley - A flawed football hero. SPORT IN HISTORY, 39(1), 116-119.
- Research in urban history: recent Ph.D. theses on heritage and the city in Britain. Urban History, 45(3), 549-560.
- Northernness, Sheffield and the 1966 World Cup: The “Steel City” on Display. International Journal of Regional and Local History, 12(2), 92-106.
- Conference report: Digital Heritage: Digital Communities in Action, Centre for Digital Heritage, University of York, 12th July 2014. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 15(5), 580-581.
- Minoru Yasumoto, The Rise of a Victorian Ironopolis: Middlesbrough and Regional Industrialization. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. xv + 230pp. 5 plates. 119 figures and tables. Bibliography. £60.00.. Urban History, 39(1), 190-192.
- The politics of bridge building : the long wait for the Tees (Newport) Bridge. The Bulletin of the Cleveland & Teesside Local History Society(99), 37-48. View this article in WRRO
- Middlesbrough's steel magnates and the Guild of Help. The Bulletin of the Cleveland & Teesside Local History Society(98), 24-35. View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- The future of Teesside’s steel manufacturing past : closure, loss and recognising heritage In Miskell L & Almond G (Ed.), Shaped by Steel : Landscapes, Lives and Legacies of a Global Industry (pp. 91-98). Swansea: Swansea University. View this article in WRRO
Website content
- Apathy, hooliganism, and bleak provincial towns : Russia 2018 and England 1966. Retrieved from https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/apathy-hooliganism-and-bleak-provincial-towns-russia-2018-and-england-1966/ View this article in WRRO
Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries
- 'Urbanisation'. In Routledge Historical Resource: Nineteenth Century British History Routledge: Taylor & Francis.
- The Tees Newport Bridge The Untold Story of a Steel River Landmark. Heritage Unlocked.
- Teaching activities
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TRP131 The Making of Urban Places
- Professional activities and memberships
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Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)
Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (AFHEA)