Stephen F. Kelly

Stephen F. Kelly is an English author and broadcaster, born in Liverpool, England in June 1946. He is the author of many books, mostly on football and in particular on Liverpool Football Club. He has written a number of biographies of football managers including Bill Shankly, Sir Alex Ferguson, Kenny Dalglish and Gerard Houllier as well as an oral history of Liverpool Football Club. He was one of the first writers in Britain to explore sport through oral history, not only with The Kop but also with his oral history of Manchester United Football Club, Red Voices, and a further book on Liverpool, The Bootroom Boys. His other books include a novel, Mr Shankly's Photograph which tells the story of a young boy growing up in Liverpool during the 1960s with a fascination for Liverpool Football Club, the Cavern and The Beatles. His study of life in Britain during the 1950s, "You've never Had It So Good' was published in April 2012. His most recent book,'British Soldiers of the Korean War: In Their Own Words' is an oral history of the Korean War between 1950-53 and is published by the History Press. He was appointed Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Chester in 2012.

After leaving school he worked at Cammell Laird shipyard for six years in Birkenhead. He was later educated at Ruskin College, Oxford and the London School of Economics.^[1] He was then employed as a political journalist on Tribune and later worked as a producer at Granada Television in Manchester. His credits there include World In Action and Union World. He was later Fellow in Media at the University of Huddersfield and Director of their Centre for Oral History Research.^[2] He also holds a PhD from Huddersfield.^[3] Has written for many newspapers and journals including The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Scotsman, Scotland On Sunday, Private Eye.

Publications

• 'British Soldiers of the Korean War: In Their Own Words,' The History Press (2013)

You've Never Had It So Good: Recollections of Life in the 1950s, The History Press (2012)

• Forever Everton: Official Illustrated History of Everton F.C., Macdonalds (1987)
• You'll Never Walk Alone: Official Illustrated History of Liverpool Football Club, Macdonalds (1987)
• Idle Hands, Clenched Fists: Depression in a Shipyard Town, Spokesman Books (1988)
• Back Page Football: A Century of Newspaper Coverage, Macdonalds (1988)
• Boot Room Boys, Collins Willow (1991)
• Back Page United, Macdonalds (1991)
• Liverpool in Europe (1992)
• A Game of Two Halves: Matches, the Teams, the Players, the Managers, the Fans, the Pain, the Poetry of Football (1992)
• Graeme Souness: A Soccer Revolutionary (1994)
• The Highbury Encyclopedia: A-Z of Arsenal FC, Mainstream (1994)
• Back Page Football, Macdonalds (1995)
• Not Just a Game: Best Football Writing of the Season (1995)
• The Pick of the Season: Best of British Football Writing (1996)
• It's Much More Important Than That: Bill Shankly, the biography (1997) ^[4]
• The Pick of the Season: Best of British Football Writing (1997)
• The Hamlyn Illustrated History of Liverpool, 1892-1998 (1998)
• Fergie: Biography of Alex Ferguson, Headline, (1998)
• The Anfield Encyclopedia: An A-Z of Liverpool FC (1998)
• Red Voices: United from the Terraces, Headline (1999)
• Forty Years of "Coronation Street", Macmillan (2000)
• The Old Trafford Encyclopedia: A-Z of Manchester United (2000)
• Mr. Shankly's Photograph, Robson Books (2002)
• Gerard Houllier: The Liverpool Revolution, Virgin Books (2003)
• Dalglish, Headline (2004)
• The Kop, Virgin Books (2005)

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