Patrick Wright is a cultural critic, historian, and broadcaster, and professor of modern cultural studies at Nottingham Trent University. Among his books are On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain (Verso, 1985), The Village that Died for England: The Strange Story of Tyneham (Jonathan Cape, 1995; Faber, revised edition, 2002), Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine (Faber, 2000), The River: the Thames in Our Time (BBC Worldwide, 1999), and (as co-author) Stanley Spencer (Tate, 2001). His latest book is Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2007).

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Recent articles

An enduring narrative of England - one with radical as well as conservative variants - sees it as a country besieged by hostile forces, its traditions under threat. A lively London market gives Patrick Wright a fresh perspective on the habit of "conceiving England as a heritage in danger".

An excavation of the true origin of a familiar political expression opens the door to a different understanding of the "long cold war", finds Patrick Wright.

In response to the horrors of imperial air warfare in Ethiopia, Burma, and India in the 1930s, the sculptor Eric Benfield and the socialist-feminist Sylvia Pankhurst turned political passion into art with a unique Anti-Air War Memorial. The cultural archaeologist Patrick Wright visits the London suburb where it is located, and retrieves the fascinating story of a public monument for peace.