Gambling License Advice

Dr Seamus Murphy

My name is Dr Seamus Murphy. I am currently Course Coordinator of Criminology at the University of Bedfordshire. My broad interests include gambling history and focusing on the social history of gaming (casinos) in the UK. My teaching interests include Introduction to Criminology and Crimes of the Powerful.

I have broad experience of working within highly regulated business environments as well as building gambling operations and establishing operational procedures and change management for start-up organisations. This has enabled me to become accustomed to the pressures placed on businesses within their own market as well as within distinct regulatory jurisdictions.

I am currently handling several remote applications to the UK Gambling Commission and have managed previous applications to the Maltese Lotteries and Gambling Authority.

I have been Head of Operations at a London based eGambling organisation including the management of bingo and casino networks and operation of live streaming studio activities.

I have produced competitor analysis and a jurisdiction report for a major eGambling consultancy and have contributed an article to calvinayre.com. I have provided documentation for the Washington State Lottery poker network.

Publications

I have recently published historical research on the British casino industry, The Casino and Society in Britain. The book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War.

The reader will gain a detailed knowledge of the history, culture, identity and participants within the British casino industry, which has, to date, escaped the attention of a dedicated historical and criminological investigation.

This monograph fills this gap in inquiry while drawing on primary source material that has not been used previously, including, but not confined to, records in the National Archives relating to the Gaming Board of Great Britain and the Metropolitan Police.

In addition to archive material, oral histories, newspapers, published journals and books have been utilised and referenced where appropriate.

Envisaged to close a gap in historical research, the book will be of interest to historians, criminologists, regulators, students and individuals interested in gambling, society and cultural history.