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[email protected] Work, Play and Performance: Masculinity and Popular Culture in Central Scotland, c1930-c1950 Oliver J. Stockman, MPhil, MA, Bsc Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of PhD Economic and Social History. School of Social and Political Sciences College of Social Sciences University of Glasgow 1 Abstract This thesis seeks to begin to fill the gaps in the historiography surrounding the constructions of masculinity performed by young Scottish men in the mid-twentieth century. Much of the current research on British masculinity focuses on the English experience. Where historians have studied Scottish masculinity it has often been in the context of ‘deviant’ forms such as gang membership and domestic violence. In contrast to this, this thesis investigates the masculinities lived by the mass of young working-class men in Scotland.