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Bailey, Matthew


  
 


Research Topic

The representation of Labour politics in British fiction

I am interested in the representation of politics in works of fiction – in literature, on film and on TV – and am currently researching the various depictions of Labour Party politics from the beginning of the 20th Century. The research will examine not only how Labour politics have been dealt with in across time and within a number of fictional forms but also ask what political science can gain from the study of fiction research.

Research Supervisors

Professor Steven Fielding and Dr Lucy Sargisson 

Primary Funding Source

University of Nottingham

Research Centre

The Centre for British Politics

Research Interests

  • Political Fiction
  • British Politics
  • Political Ideologies

Publications

  • The Uses and Abuses of British Political Fiction. Or how I learned to stop worrying and love Malcolm Tucker’, Parliamentary Affairs (forthcoming)
  • ‘Tory Stories: The portrayal of Conservative Party leaders on stage and screen’ at the ‘Acting with Facts’ conference, University of Reading, 2nd September 2010
  • ‘When fact is stranger than (political) fiction’ (with Philip Cowley), Total Politics, June (24) 2010, pp. 74-76
  • ‘Whisper it but perhaps Malcolm Tucker is good for us’ on British Television Drama (http://www.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk/?p=338), February 2010
  • ‘Stranded on the middle ground: reflections on consensus in post-war political film and fiction’ at the Political Studies Association conference, University of Manchester , 8th April 2009
  • ‘Sympathy for the Devil: must fictional portraits of politicians be so negative?’ at the Political Studies Association conference, University of Bath, 12th April 2007
  • ‘Peasants’ Uprising or Religious War? Re-examining the 1975 Conservative Leadership Contest’ (with Philip Cowley), British Journal of Political Science, 2000(30), pp.599-629
  • ‘What if Ted Heath had stepped down in 1974?’ (with Philip Cowley), (ed.) D. Black & I. Dale, Prime Minister Portillo and other things that never happened (Politico’s, 2003), pp.193-210
  • ‘Disability Rights’ (with Kevin Shinkwin), (ed.) P. Cowley, Conscience and Parliament (Frank Cass, 1998), pp.99-116

 

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