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Five minutes from Oxford Street and from Goodge Street Tube
Heartfield in the news ... and on the blogs
Diary
17 May, 'What Masculinity Crisis?' for Mute
7 May, on UKIP's rise for Sp!ked
22 April, once again on the housing crisis for Sp!ked
21 April, The Aborigines' Protection Society is 'a compelling book, rich in historical detail', says Aboriginal History, and 'Heartfield's book is set to become a foundational text', according to Settler Colonial Studies
1 April, reviewing a biography of Tony Cliff for Platypus
April 2013, British Workers & US Civil War reviewed in Theory and Action
26 Mar., with Andrew Simm at the North London Literary Forum
17 Feb., with Rhian E. Jones at the Oxford Radical Forum
14 Feb., Paul Thomas reviews British Workers & US Civil War
29 Jan., me on Places People Live for New Geography
25 Jan., reviewing Kyriakides and Torres on race
19 Jan., Louis Proyect with a generous write up of my Unpatriotic History...
2 Jan. 2013, me on Lincoln and the Cotton workers
12 Dec., my Aborigines' Protection Society reviewed in the Journal of Pacific History
1 Dec., Socialist Standard reviews Unpatriotic History...
Nov., Freedom Press on the Unpatriotic History
27-8 Nov., on Unpatriotic History..., in Sheffield - which you can watch on video - and Leeds
11 Nov., talking on Unpatriotic History in Clapham - recordings here
26 Oct., Spiked's review of Unpatriotic History...
17 Oct., Patrick West's review of Unpatriotic History...
2 Oct., on Eric Hobsbawm, for Spiked
16 Aug., review of Unpatriotic History... from the Anti-Capitalist Initiative
24 July, 'London's Olympic Whingers' for New Geography
18 July, Critique of Creativity, reviewed
21 June, Ranciere and Chartist Insurrection reviewed
14 May, on the social cleansing of London, for New Geography
The Aborigines' Protection Society reviewed in Arena, April 2012
27 April, my review of Ken McLaughlin's book Surviving Identities
24 Feb. Román Gubern and Paul Hammond’s new book on Bunuel reviewed for Spiked
21 Feb. on the EU's 'Soft Coup' in Greece and Italy, part one and two, for The Current Moment blog
31 Jan., me on Bloody Sunday and the Guardian's coverage
27 Jan., 2012, my review of Lucio Magri's memoir of the Italian Communist Party, for Sp!ked.
4 Dec, on Public Sector Strikes for New Geography
25 Nov, my review of Richard Gott and Jeremy Paxman on Empire history
1 Nov, my Aborigines' history is reviewed as Book of the Month in the Royal Geographical Society's magazine
27 Sept, my chapter in a new book about artist Tony Earnshaw (catch the show at Flower's East)
20 Sept, On the 'Hands orf Our Land campaign for Sp!ked, and Dale Farm sacrificed to Green Belt for Jacobin
13 Sept, in defence of Dale Farm Gypsies, against eviction
11 August, on Police Brutality for Jacobin's blog, and on the left's fantasies of revolutionary rioting on Mute's site
10 August, on Britain's riots, for New Geography
29 July, on the Aborigines' Protection Society, for Spiked
27 July, on NoW phone hacking scandal, for Mute
1 July, my article 'Responsible Imperialism' in Jacobin
10 June, book launch, Kentish Town
June 2011, on Governing the Empire, for Spiked
May 2011, my contribution to the Intellectual Property review
2 March, my article on Education and the Working Class, and another copy
25 Feb, my review of Lizzie Collingham's book The Taste of War
24 Feb, on Copyright Wars for iNets South West
27 Jan. on Copyright law and the decline of private property for Mute another copy
7 Jan. 2011 My update on Britain's govt. 'Coalition of the Unwilling' in New Geography
Nov. 2010, What happened to the End of the World?, for Jacobin's print ed.
two articles on development in London and the South East are in New Geography
DEBATE, 5 Oct., 6.30pm: IS LONDON GROWING TOO FAST? James Heartfield, Terry Farrell, David Green, Peter Bishop - at the British Library
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BRITISH WORKERS & THE US CIVIL WAR
How Karl Marx and the Lancashire weavers jouned Abraham Lincoln's fight against slavery 150 years ago
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The Aborigines' Protection Society: Humanitarian
Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the
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'a major, well-written, and closely research
contribution to the study of nineteenth century British colonialism'
Geographical, Nov 2011
'James
Heartfield has grasped the nettle to give us a cogent, elegantly written
overview of the society and its history to 1909',
Journal
of Pacific History, Dec 2012
'a compelling book, rich in historical
detail', Aboriginal
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Let's Build!
Why we need five million homes in the next 10 years
is published by Audacity on 23 September 2006
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Articles on Let's Build
Gordon Brown's Eco Towns Con Spiked, 7 April '08
Farewell to the City a paper to the Rural Futures Conference, published in Spiked 4 April 2006...also available in Italian
Interdependent we stand, divided we fall,
'Herbert Girardet and the plastic concept of sustainability' in Rising East online, January 2006
'Londonostalgia', Blueprint, September 2004.
Who's afraid of the Thames Gateway?
Spiked 6 January 2006
City, suburbs and snobs
Spiked 30 November 2005
The government must stop finding reasons not to build new homes Guardian 21 February 2005
Confusing signals in the housing debate and New communities, same old problems, Times Educational Supplement, 14 January 2005
All talk and no bricks, Spiked, 26 January 2005
Concrete over the Countryside, Blueprint, January 2002
THE UNPATRIOTIC HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. By James Heartfield. ZER0 BooksWriter and lecturer James Heartfield is a director of the development think-tank, audacity. He lives in north London with his wife and two daughters
E-mail james@heartfield.org
'Strong stuff, and in sharp contrast with today’s best-selling histories', Patrick West
'Excellent', Pat Mills
'highly recommended as a useful corrective to World War Two history' Socialist Standard
'a trenchant and sustained demolition of the People’s War mythology' Neil Davenport, Sp!ked
'a compelling and fascinating analysis, demolishing conventional accounts of the War' Anti-Capitalist Initiative
Available now from Amazon UK <> Amazon US
Watch James Heartfield talking on the history of the war
Related articles:
WORLD WAR AS CLASS WAR by James Heartfield, for Mute. Another copy. In Spanish: La Guerra Mondial como Guerra des clases
'The Battle of the Books', at Spiked-online
'Those trying to get an intellectual handle on our dumbed-down society could start with James Heartfield's The 'Death of the Subject' Explained' New Statesman
£15.00 by PayPalRead 'Postmodernism and the Subject', from the Chapter One, and Chapter 6, 'Algeria and the Defeat of French Humanism'
'This absolutely fascinating book', Raymond Tallis
'Striking and original', Terry Eagleton
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Review in Spiked-online
GREEN CAPITALISM: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance
by James Heartfield,
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Read THE CREATIVITY GAP
James Heartfield on the 'creative industries':
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Gordon Brown at NESTA for Mute and Spiked;
Creative London for Rising East Online;Escape the Creative Ghetto, with Chris Powell at NESTA;
Cox Report: creative accounting for Spiked;
Quoted in Larry Elliott's Better design requires better Products in the Guardian;
'Winning the European Capital of Culture bid will not re-build Liverpool's industry' Liverpool Daily Post; Chris Smith's Creative Accounting for the Guardian
On Channel 4 News, 26 Nov. 2006
Clare Short, Will Hutton, Doreen Massey, Zygmunt Bauman, Paul Kingsnorth, James Heartfield and many more in Jon Pugh's new book. Buy it here.
