Patrick Wright (historian)
Patrick Wright is a British writer, broadcaster and academic in the fields of cultural studies and cultural history. He was educated at the University of Kent and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.[1]
He is Professor of Literature and Visual & Material Culture at King's College London, having previously worked at the Institute of Cultural Analysis of Nottingham Trent University, and as a fellow of the London Consortium. In the 1980s he worked for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations in London. He has written for many journals and newspapers, including The Guardian, where he was employed as a contracted feature writer in the early 1990s. More recently, he has held a Mellon Fellowship at Tate Britain and, together with Timothy Hyman, curated a major Stanley Spencer exhibition. He presented a BBC2 series The River, about the River Thames, in 1999. Patrick Wright is a former presenter of Radio 3's arts programme Night Waves. He is also known for his work on British heritage.
Works
- On Living in an Old Country (1985; revised and augmented ed., 2009)
- A Journey through Ruins: The Last Days of London (1991; revised and augmented ed., 2009)
- The Village That Died for England - about Tyneham (1995)
- The River: The Thames in Our Time (1999)
- Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine (2000)
- Stanley Spencer (2001) with Timothy Hyman
- Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War (2007) (ISBN 978-0199231508)
- Passport to Peking: a Very British Mission to Mao's China (2010) (ISBN 0-19-923150-8)