James Heartfield | |
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Personal portrait of Heartfield, 2006 | |
Born | 1961 (age 63–64) |
Political party | Brexit Party |
Other political affiliations | Revolutionary Communist Party |
James Heartfield (born 1961) is a British lecturer and historian. [1]
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 (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 COVID-19 pandemic. [4]
Heartfield is a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and was previously a writer for their magazine Living Marxism. [5] In 2002 he helped set up the Audacity campaign for more house-building. [6] He has written in favour of Israel's right to independence. [7] 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. [8]
He lives in north London and is married with two daughters. [9]