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Professor Patrick Wright FBA

'Heritage' and the power of tradition in British culture since 1890; the cultural dimensions of international relations since 1945; place and belonging in relation to globalisation
Portrait of Patrick Wright standing in front of window
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2016
Subjects
Literature
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830 , History of Art and Music , Culture, Media and Performance
Website
https://patrickwright.net/
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/english/people/academic/wright.aspx

Current appointment

King’s College London Emeritus professor of Literature, History, and Politics

Past appointments

King's College London Professor of Literature and Visual and Material Culture

2011 - 2018

Kings College London Fellow of the London Consortium

2006 - 2010

Nottingham Trent University Professor of Modern Cultural Studies

2000 - 2011

Publications

The Village that Died for England: Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill's Pledge

Patrick Wright - Published in 2021 by Repeater Books; New edition

A reissue of Patrick Wright's 1995 classic about the military takeover of the village of Tyneham, with a new introduction taking in Brexit and a new wave of British nationalism.

The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness

Patrick Wright - Published in 2020 by Repeater Books

The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s.

Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao's China

Patrick Wright - Published in 2010 by Oxford University Press

In 1954, 18 years before Nixon's momentous visit to China, scores of European delegations set off for Beijing, in response to Prime Minister Chou En-Lai's invitation to "come and see" the New China and to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Communist victory. In this delightfully eclectic book - part comedy, part travelogue, and part cultural history - Patrick Wright tells the story of the remarkable Britons who made this journey. First Edition.

Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War

Patrick Wright - Published in 2009 by Oxford University Press

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." With these words, Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech given in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. Illustrated edition.

A Journey Through Ruins: The Last Days of London

Patrick Wright - Published in 2009 by Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition

A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London.

On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain

Patrick Wright - Published in 2009 by Oxford University Press, USA; Updated edition

The hulk of Henry VIII's flagship is raised from the seabed in an operation that captures the mind of the nation. An elderly lady whose ancient house is scheduled for demolition dismantles it, piece by piece, and moves it across the country. On Living in an Old Country probes such apparently fleeting and disconnected events in order to reveal how history lives on, not just in the specialist knowledge of historians, archaeologists and curators, but as a tangible presence permeating everyday life and shaping our sense of identity.

TANK The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine

Patrick M. Wright - Published in 2000 by Faber & Faber

The River: The Thames in Our Time

Patrick Wright - Published in 1657 by ‎ BBC Books

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Ruth Finnegan FBA

Social & Cultural Anthropology, Other Branches

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Professor Tamar Garb FBA

Art, gender and sexuality in nineteenth and early twentieth-century France; race and visual representation in the modern period; contemporary art and politics and photographic/filmic practices in of and from Southern Africa

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Professor Dorothy Price FBA

Modern and contemporary art through the lens of race, sexuality and gender with particular expertise in German modernism and Black British Art

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