Research output per year
Research output per year
Professor of Cultural Politics, Prof
I joined the Manchester Department in 2014; before that I worked at the University of Salford. In 2016-17 I was an AHRC Leadership Fellow for a project entitled Wars of Position: Marxism and Civil Society, run in collaboration with Manchester's People's History Museum. My books include Class Act: The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl (2007) and The Chronology of Revolution: Communism, Culture, and Civil Society in Twentieth-Century Britain (2021). My articles have appeared in journals including ELH, History Workshop, Textual Practice and Literature & History. I’m Chair of the Raymond Williams Society and on the editorial board of Twentieth-century Communism.
My current work focuses on the following areas:
Culture in interwar Britain
Cultural periodicals in Britain, 1920-1980
Marxist theories of culture
Culture and Popular Front politics
The invention of modernism
Late modernism
Virginia Woolf
Working-class writing
Writers and Communism in Britain
The BBC
Culture and the Factory
Theatre and the political Left
I welcome enquiries from prospective doctoral students interested in any of my research specialisms.
Chair, Raymond Williams Society
Dec 2020 → Dec 2023
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
Harker, B. & Darby, J.
1/02/16 → 31/07/17
Project: Research