Patrick Wright (academic)

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Patrick Wright is a British academic, broadcaster and writer in the fields of cultural studies and cultural history. He is known for his work on British heritage.

He is a Professor at the Institute of Cultural Analysis of Nottingham Trent University, a post he has held since 2000; before that he held a Mellon Fellowship at Tate Britain and curated a major Stanley Spencer exhibition. He presented a BBC2 series The River, about the River Thames, in 1999. Patrick Wright is also a former presenter of Radio 3's arts programme Night Waves

[edit] Works

• On Living in an Old Country (1985)
• A Journey through Ruins: The Last Days of London (1991)
• The Village That Died for England - about Tyneham (1995)
• The River: The Thames in Our Time (1999)
• Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine (2000)
• Stanley Spencer (2001) with Timothy Hyman

[edit] External link

• Official Home Page