James
Heartfield
Historian and writer James Heartfield has been publishing on the history of the British Empire since writing The Aborigines’ Protection Society (2011). A long-standing campaigner for social justice he is author of An Unpatriotic History of the Second World War (2013), The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (2016) Who’s Afraid of the Easter Rising? (with Kevin Rooney, 2016). His most recent book is Britain’s Empires, 1600-2020 (2023).
James Heartfield
Historian and writer James Heartfield has been publishing on the history of the British Empire since writing The Aborigines’ Protection Society (2011). A long-standing campaigner for social justice he is author of An Unpatriotic History of the Second World War (2013), The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (2016) Who’s Afraid of the Easter Rising? (with Kevin Rooney, 2016). His most recent book is Britain’s Empires, 1600-2020 (2023).
James has worked as a lecturer, journalist and TV producer. He has been active in campaigns against deportations and race discrimination and more recently in favour of Britain leaving the European Union. He lives and works in North London.
“Englishmen, in the wrong circumstances, under significant pressures, were capable of taking some spectacularly wicked decisions.”
