James Heartfield (born 1961) is a British lecturer and historian. [1]
James Heartfield (born 1961) is a British lecturer and historian. [1]
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]
In 2002 he helped set up the Audacity campaign for more house-building. [5] 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. [6]
He lives in north London and is married with two daughters. [7]
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