Patrick Wright (historian)

For other people named Patrick Wright, seePatrick Wright (disambiguation).

Patrick WrightFBAis a British writer, broadcaster and academic in the fields ofcultural studiesandcultural history.He was educated at theUniversity of KentandSimon Fraser Universityin British Columbia, Canada.

He is Professor (emeritus) of Literature, History and Politics atKing's College London,having previously worked at the Institute of Cultural Analysis ofNottingham Trent University,and as a fellow of the London Consortium. In the 1980s he worked for theNational Council for Voluntary Organisationsin London, and was self-employed as a writer, broadcaster and occasional consultant between 1987 and 2000. He has written for many journals and newspapers, includingThe Guardian,where he was a contracted feature writer in the early 1990s. More recently, he has held a Mellon Fellowship atTate Britainand, together with Timothy Hyman, curated a majorStanley Spencerexhibition. He presented aBBC2seriesThe River,about theRiver Thames,in 1999. Patrick Wright is a former presenter ofRadio 3'sarts programmeNight Waves.He is also known for his work on British heritage.

He is the author of several books, many of which explore themes connected to England and Englishness,Psychogeographyand cultural history, includingThe Village That Died for EnglandandA Journey through Ruins: The Last Days of London.His latest book,The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness,explores the East German writerUwe Johnsonand his unexpected residence on theIsle of Sheppeybetween 1974 and his death in 1984, taking his appreciation of "backwaters" as the basis for a consideration of deindustrialisation and its more recent consequences in England and elsewhere. It is published in December 2020 byRepeater Books.

Bibliography

• On Living in an Old Country(1985; revised and augmented edition 2009)
• A Journey through Ruins: The Last Days ofLondon(1991; revised and augmented edition 2009)
• The Village That Died for England(aboutTyneham;1995; revised and augmented edition 2002)
• The River: The Thames in Our Time(1999)
• Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine(2000)
• Stanley Spencer(2001) withTimothy Hyman
• Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War(2007) (ISBN978-0199231508)
• Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao's China(2010) (ISBN0-19-923150-8)
• The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness(2020,Repeater Books) (ISBN9781912248605)

External links

• Official Home Page
• 2010 interview