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'Jack Lindsay, Rising Tide' in Andrew Whitehead and Jerry White (eds) London Fictions, 2013

'‘Dreadfully Old-Fashioned: On Tradition and Commitment in Political Poetry' Interview' in Uwe Klawitter and Claus-Ullrich Viol (eds) Contemporary Political Poetry in Britain and Ireland, (Anglistik & Englischunterricht, 2013)

'Poetry and Magic', Concept and Culture (University of Kemerovo, 2012)

'Anyone Can Do That', Journal of Nordic Studies, 2012 - View »

'How the Spartans Stole the Bones of Orestes: the Poetry of Yiannis Ritsos in the Twenty-first Century', Communist Review, Winter 2011

'Writing in the Snow', Ross Bradshaw (ed) Maps (Five Leaves, 2011)

'A Writer for Every Tick of My Watch: a History of Writing on Teesside', Claire Malcolm and Stevie Ronnie (ed) Fix the Moment (New Writing North, 2010) - View »

'Three Men on the Metro: Or Translating What You Don't Understand', Concept and Culture (University of Kemerovo, 2010)

'A Man of Communist Appearance: Randall Swingler and MI5', Socialist History 37, Winter 2010 - View »

'Their Cookery from Paris and Their Opinions from Moscow: Writers and the CPGB', Communisme 87, 2006 - View »

'Tatyana's Bananas: The Pushkin Sonnet in English', Concept and Culture (University of Kemerovo, 2008)

'A Sack of Potatoes or Freedom Fries? Orwell in the Twenty-first Century', Socialist History 26 Spring 2005

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'The Ralph Fox Group' in Antony Shuttleworth (ed) And In Our Time: Vision, Revision and British Writing of the 1930s (Bucknell University Press, 2003)

'Magic, Mimesis and Middlesbrough' in Mark Robinson (ed) Words Out Loud, (Stride, 2002)

'Mapless in the Wilderness: Randall Swingler in 1956', Socialist History 19, Spring 2001

'The Cartography of Despair: Randall Swingler's The Map', Textual Practice 15(2) 2001

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'The Best of Corporals: the Italian Campaign in the Poetry of Randall Swingler', London Magazine October/November 1998

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'Walthamstow, Little Gidding and Middlesbrough: Edward Thompson the Literature Tutor' in Richard Taylor (ed) Beyond the Walls: Fifty Years of Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Leeds, 1946-1996 (Leeds Studies in Continuing Education, 1996)

'Authors Take Sides: Writers and the Communist Party, 1920-1956' in Kevin Morgan, Nina Fishman and Geoff Andrews (eds) Opening the Books: New Perspectives in the History of British Communism (Pluto Press, 1995)

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'Walthamstow, Little Gidding and Middlesbrough: Edward Thompson, Adult Education and Literature', Socialist History no 8, 1995

'Betrayed Spring: the 1945 Labour Government and British Literary Culture' in Jim Fyrth (ed) Culture and Society in Labour Britain 1945-51 (Lawrence and Wishart, 1995)

'Through the Wall: Adult Education, Social Change & New University Subjects' (with Rebecca O'Rourke) in Paul Armstrong, Barry Bright and Miriam Zukas (eds) Reflecting on Changing Practices, Contexts & Identities (SCUTREA, 1994)

'Writers, the Communist Party and the Battle of Ideas 1945-1950', Socialist History no 5 1994

'Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Flower of Liberty' in Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai (eds) Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers, 1889-1939 (University of North Carolina Press, 1993)

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'A Hole Like That: the Literary Representation of Cleveland', Bulletin of the Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society, vol 58, Spring 1990

'Proletarian Literature in the 1930s: from Anti-intellectualism to Anti-Fascism', Labour History Review, vol 55 part 1 1990

'Major Miner Writers and the British Left Between the Wars' in Hanna Behrend et al (eds) Working-class Literature in Britain and Ireland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Humboldt University, 1986)

'Jack Hilton – Proletarian Novelist' in The Itch of Class: Essays in Memory of Jack Hilton edited by Clive Fleay, Middlesex Polytechnic History Journal vol II No I Spring 1985

'Forward to the 1930s: Literary History and Anamnesis' in Malcolm Chase and Christopher Shaw (ed) The Imagined Past: History and Nostalgia, (Manchester University Press, 1989)

'Worlds Without End Foisted Upon the Future: Some Antecedents to Nineteen Eighty-Four' in Christopher Norris (ed) Inside the Myth: Orwell: Views from the Left (Lawrence and Wishart, 1984)

'Extremely Crude Propaganda? The Novels of Jack Lindsay' in Bob Mackie (ed) Jack Lindsay: the Thirties and Forties, (University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Australian Studies Centre, 1984)

'Returned Volunteer: the Novels of John Sommerfield', London Magazine April/May 1983

'The Birmingham Group', London Magazine June 1983