James Heartfield

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

Life

Born in Leeds, 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). His Ph.D. thesis (awarded by the University of Westminster) was published as ''The European Union and the End of Politics,'' in 2013. Heartfield has written for '' ArtReview'', ''Blueprint'', Spiked Online, and the ''Times Education Supplement''.
In May 2006, with Julia Svetlichnaja, he interviewed the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko. In the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020, Heartfield worked as a vaccinator at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital.

Politics

He has been critical of government policies on the creative industries, talking and writing on the illusions of the knowledge economy, and was active in the 'Design Agenda' group, campaigning for a realistic assessment of the Creative Industries, speaking at their 1998 conference on 'rebranding Britain' in 1998. Nick Bell named Heartfield as "one of the most important commentators on design". Heartfield was a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party in the 1980s. In 2002 he helped set up the Audacity campaign for more house-building.
Heartfield stood as a candidate for the Brexit Party in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom for Yorkshire and the Humber but did not gain a seat.

Personal life

He lives in north London 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, 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
British male journalists
Living people
British Empire
Historians of colonialism
Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1978) members
Brexit Party politicians
Date of birth missing (living people)