James Heartfield (born 1961) is a British lecturer and historian.

Life

Heartfield has written books on the history of the

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, including ''The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society'' (2016) and ''The Blood-Stained Poppy: A critique of the politics of commemoration'' (2019). Heartfield has written for ''

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'', ''

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'', Spiked Online, and the ''Times Education Supplement''. His Ph.D. thesis (awarded by the

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) was published as ''The European Union and the End of Politics'', in 2013. In May 2006, with Julia Svetlichnaja, he interviewed the Russian dissident

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. Heartfield worked as a vaccinator during the

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Politics

Heartfield is a former member of the

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, and was previously a writer for their magazine ''Living Marxism''. In 2002 he helped set up the Audacity campaign for more house-building. He has written in favour of

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's right to independence. Heartfield stood as a candidate for the

Brexit Party Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Nigel Farage has been Leader of Reform UK and Richard Tice deputy leader since 2024. It has five members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons and one membe ...

in the

2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom The 2019 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2019 European Parliament election. It was held on Thursday 23 May 2019 and the results announced on Sunday 26 and Monday 27 May 2019, after all the other EU coun ...

for Yorkshire and the Humber but did not gain a seat.

Personal life

He lives in north

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and is married with two daughters.

Publications

* ''Britain's Empires: A History, 1600–2020'' London, Anthem Press, 2022 * ''The Blood-Stained Poppy: A critique of the politics of commemoration'' London, Zer0 Books, 2019 * ''The Equal Opportunities Revolution'' London,

Repeater Books Repeater Books is a publishing imprint based in London, founded in 2014 by Tariq Goddard and Mark Fisher, formerly the founders of radical publishers Zero Books, along with Etan Ilfeld, Tamar Shlaim, Alex Niven and Matteo Mandarini. It was lau ...

, 2017 * ''The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society'' London Hurst Books/Oxford University Press, 2016 * ''Who's Afraid of the Easter Rising?'' (with Kevin Rooney), London Zer0, Books, 2015 * ''The European Union and the End of Politics'' London, Zer0 Books, 2013 * ''British Workers & the US Civil War'' London, Reverspective, 2013 * ''Unpatriotic History of the Second World War'' London, Zer0 Books, 2012 * ''The Aborigines' Protection Society: Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1836–1909'' Hurst (London), and Columbia University Press (New York), 2011 * ''Green Capitalism: manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance'', Openmute, 2008 * ''Let's Build! Why we need Five Million Homes in the next 10 Years'' (Audacity, 2006)
''Escape the Creative Ghetto,''
with Chris Powell, NESTA, 2006
''Creativity Gap''
Blueprint, 2005 * ''The "Death of the Subject" Explained'' Sheffield Hallam University Press, 2002Review of ''The "Death of the Subject" Explained'': *Munira Mirza, ''International Journal of Cultural Policy'', * ''Great Expectations: the creative industries in the New Economy'' London, Design Agenda, 2000 * ''Need and Desire in the Post-material Economy'' Sheffield Hallam University Press, 1998 * ''Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age''co-editor with Ian Abley, London, John Wiley, 2002.

References

External links

James Heartfield's home page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Heartfield, James 1961 births English male journalists Living people

Historians of colonialism Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1978) members Reform UK politicians Date of birth missing (living people)