Bücher von Philip Dunn

Phil Dunn was Museum Registrar at the People's History Museum in Manchester for over 20 years. As a curator of the museum's research collections and public displays he acquired an extensive knowledge of early trade unions and their banners, radical British politics, and the visual culture and ideologies of the broad left. Born in Dalkeith, Scotland, his degree in Modern History at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology included a two year specialism in Labour history studies. This, combined with his knowledge of the museum's banner, poster and photograph collections, provided him with valuable insights into UK Communism, the Labour Party 1901-1984, late 20th century political protest, and revolutionary Marxism. Similarly, his observations on the growth of Neo-Marxist Critical Theory in museum culture and in UK museum training courses and publications revealed to him the new liberal left orthodoxy that had become established in Britain's museum and arts sectors. Following retirement in 2014, he put versifying aside -- his main interest -- and set about writing and selecting the diverse material for this book, all the time looking for new angles, invective and humour. He hopes to return to the writing of verse and poetry before too long.