Patrick Wright

Patrick Wright is Professor of Literature and Visual & Material Culture in the English Department at King's College, London.

'Isles of Wonder'? - some thoughts on the 'Little World' of the London Olympics

Danny Boyle's recently unveiled prototype for the London 2012 Opening Ceremony is centred around a nostalgic image of British countryside. But what do this model's myriad influences suggest about power, history and national identities across the UK?

By Patrick Wright

/ 22 Jun 2012

Real England? Reflections on Broadway Market

When I lived in east London in the early 1990s, there was one street above all that seemed beyond hope of improvement or recovery. It was spurned even by its

By Patrick Wright

/ 23 Apr 2008

Iron Curtain: a century restaged

When I started researching the Iron Curtain, I shared the widespread assumption that this symbolic device first descended into the world on 5 March 1946, when Winston Churchill went to

By Patrick Wright

/ 24 Oct 2007

The stone bomb

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

By Patrick Wright

/ 7 Apr 2003