James Heartfield (born 1961) is a British lecturer and historian. [1]
Life
Heartfield has written a number of books on the history of the British Empire, 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 ArtReview, Blueprint, Spiked Online, and the Times Education Supplement. His Ph.D. thesis (awarded by the University of Westminster) was published as The European Union and the End of Politics, in 2013. [2]
In May 2006, with Julia Svetlichnaja, he interviewed the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko.[3] Heartfield worked as a vaccinator during the Coronavirus pandemic.[4]
He lives in north London and is married with two daughters.[7]
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, 2017
The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society London Hurst Books/Oxford University Press, 2016[8]
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[9]
British Workers & the US Civil War London, Reverspective, 2013[10]
Unpatriotic History of the Second World War London, Zer0 Books, 2012[11]
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[12]
Green Capitalism: manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance, Openmute, 2008[13]
Let's Build! Why we need Five Million Homes in the next 10 Years (Audacity, 2006)