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(*updated January 2012) London Riots ***Listen to the Margaret Throsby's Interview with Clive on ABC Classic FM Radio here***
Exciting News - Summer 2012 will see the release of Violent London: 21 AD with Accompanying Augmented Reality Ap for your Smartphone!!
See Clive speak at The Whitechapel Society on Jack The Ripper at the Movies here
PIRATES - Clive's new article "Jigging in the Riggin'" - Johnny Depp and the politics of pirates
***Read Clive Bloom's interview with Lucy Inglis on Revolutionary London here***
Read Clive's interview with The Weekly Worker on Republicanism here
"Bloom is a card-carrying public intellectual, a regular media commentator and the prolific author and editor of books on pulp fiction, Poe and Freud, graphic novels, politics and literature, best-sellers, American Gothic, British horror, violence and the occult. In short, he has street cred" Times Higher Education Magazine
Restless Revolutionaries - A History of Britain's Fight for a Republic
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Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts Second Edition (Palgrave) out now!!
'…[an] ambitious and erudite chronicle of protest in the capital…assiduously researched...' - The Times
Read the latest review in The Guardian here
Read Clive Bloom's collected articles on popular culture and politics here
Recently described by The Times as "a polymath", CLIVE BLOOM is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, best-selling author and publisher. When Professor Bloom isn't writing and researching he divides his time between New York University and The University of Notre Dame.
In 2011 Clive was the historical consultant to the BBC and a number of national and international newspapers on the G20 and the summer riots in Britain. He is an occasional feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The independent, The Irish Times and the London Evening Standard, regularly appearing on television and radio and he is quoted in the Columbia Book of World Quotations.
His numerous books include Restless Revolutionaries, Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts, Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900, Terror Within: The Dream of a British Republic, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory; and Gothic Horror, all of which have enjoyed international recognition.
Follow Clive on Twitter @CliveBloom. Contact Clive directly at cbloom4189@aol.com or find him on Linked In.