Peter Evans

Peter Evans is a Teacher at Bristol University, where he was awarded a PhD in History in 2014. His teaching currently focuses on late nineteenth-century concepts of utopia and his doctoral research examined British and US socialist utopian literature in this period. This article was written on behalf of Assemblies for Democracy who will be meeting in Glasgow, Manchester and London this Spring.

A free election, but not a fair one

The 2015 election result shows just how absurdly unfair our voting system is. To change it we need political pressure from a movement for democratic renewal outside of Parliament.

By Peter Evans

/ 26 May 2015

Assembling for democracy: part 2, the Chartists and us

Democracy arrived in the UK thanks to popular movements which pressured a reluctant Parliament into democratic change. Part 2 of this article picks up the story beginning with the Chartists.

By Peter Evans

/ 25 Mar 2015

Assembling for democracy: part 1, learning from the Blanketeers

As Assemblies for Democracy prepare to meet this Spring in London, Manchester and Glasgow, it is time to look again at the history of popular assembly in the struggle for democracy in Britain.

By Peter Evans

/ 24 Mar 2015

Keeping our spies under scrutiny

The British government is proposing to introduce controls over the security forces. Peter Evans, formerly an investigative journalist on The Times, questions whether they go deep enough to be effective.

By Peter Evans

/ 6 Dec 2011