Luke Billingham

Luke Billingham trained as a secondary school history teacher and now works in a Hackney youth centre near where he grew up. He is passionate about the empowerment of young people in East London. Luke has written about historical contingency and its value for thinking about politics in the Curriculum Journal here and for the British Educational Research Association here.

Nothing’s more meaningful than self-education – but to do that in a prison cell, you need books

Haven Distribution is a UK charity aiding prison education, through a simple but significant contribution: buying and sending books to prisoners.

By Luke Billingham

/ 2 Mar 2017

It could be otherwise: contingency and social transformation

There’s no such thing as a permanent present or a future that is fixed.

By Luke Billingham

/ 14 Jun 2016