Steven Fielding (political historian)
This article is about the British political scientist. For the Australian politician, see Steve Fielding.
Steven Fielding is an academic at the Politics Department at the University of Nottingham who is Professor of Political History and Director of the Centre for British Politics. His most recent work ‘’A State of Play’’ sets out the constructivist view that how individuals view politics is constructed by fictional works about politics. Previously Fielding's research has largely focused on the British Labour Party and his 2003 work The Labour Party: Continuity and Change in the Making of 'New' Labour presents a revisionist view of "New Labour" emphasising the continuity of New Labour with Old Labour.
Publications
- A State of Play: British Politics on Screen, Stage and Page, from Anthony Trollope to The Thick of It
- The Labour Governments 1964-1970: Labour and Cultural Change, Volume 1, Second Edition
- Interpreting the Labour Party: Approaches to Labour Politics and History (Critical Labour Movement Studies)
- The Labour Party: Continuity and Change in the Making of 'New' Labour
- Labour: Decline and Renewal
- The Labour Party: Socialism and Society Since 1951 (Documents in Contemporary History)
- England Arise: The Labour Party and popular politics in 1940s Britain
- The Wilson Governments, 1964-1970
- Workers' Worlds: Cultures and Communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880-1939
- Class and Ethnicity: Irish Catholics in England, 1880-1939 (Themes in the Twentieth Century)