James Heartfield

James Heartfield (born 1961) is a British lecturer and historian.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Life

Heartfield has written 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, completed under the supervision of David Chandler at the University of Westminster in 2010,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was published as The European Union and the End of Politics, in 2013.<ref> [1] Our Doctoral Research Programme, University of Westminster </ref>

In May 2006, with Julia Svetlichnaja, he interviewed the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Heartfield worked as a vaccinator during the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Politics

Heartfield is a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and was previously a writer for their magazine Living Marxism.<ref>See Heartfield, 'The Tyranny of Identity Politics', in Spiked (magazine) 25 January 2008, https://www.spiked-online.com/2008/01/25/the-tyranny-of-identity-politics/, and also,'Articles from Living Marxism online' on Heartfield's website http://heartfield.org/lm.htm</ref> In 2002 he helped set up the Audacity campaign for more house-building.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has written in favour of Israel's right to independence.<ref>Israel: an anti-colonial triumph https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/30/israel-an-anti-colonial-triumph/</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

He lives in north London and is married with two daughters.<ref>James Heartfield's homepage for 16 September 2017</ref>

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<ref>Reviews of The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society:

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• Richard R. Follett, History: Reviews of New Books, {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}
• Kevin Grant, The Journal of African History, {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}
• Richard Huzzey, Victorian Studies, {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}, Template:JSTOR
• Reinhart Kößler, Peripherie, [2]
• Alex Middleton, The English Historical Review, {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}
• J. R. Oldfield, Journal of British Studies, {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}
• Dorothy V. Smith, Africa Today, {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}, Template:JSTOR

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• 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<ref>Review of The European Union and the End of Politics:

• Alexandru Drăgulin, Journal of Ethnophilosophical Questions and Global Ethics, [3]

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• British Workers & the US Civil War London, Reverspective, 2013<ref>Review of British Workers & the US Civil War:
• John Asimakopoulos, Theory in Action, Template:ProQuest

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• Unpatriotic History of the Second World War London, Zer0 Books, 2012<ref>Review of Unpatriotic History of the Second World War:

• John Newsinger, Review 31, [4]

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• 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<ref>Reviews of The Aborigines' Protection Society:

• Samuel Furphy, Aboriginal History, Template:JSTOR
• Susan Hinely, Human Rights Review, {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}
• Douglas A. Lorimer, Victorian Studies, {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}, Template:JSTOR
• Jane Samson, The Journal of Pacific History, {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}, Template:JSTOR
• Caroline Shaw, Journal of Human Rights, {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}
• Rachel Standfield, H-Net Reviews, [5]

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• Green Capitalism: manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance, Openmute, 2008<ref>Review of Green Capitalism:

• Nathan Coombs, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, [6]

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• 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, 2002<ref>Review of The "Death of the Subject" Explained:
• Munira Mirza, International Journal of Cultural Policy, {{#invoke:CS1 identifiers|main|_template=doi}}

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• 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 Ageco-editor with Ian Abley, London, John Wiley, 2002.

External links

• James Heartfield's home page
• Telegraph article on Litvinenko