DAVID GOODWAYContact d.j.goodway@leeds.ac.ukThe background Speaking engagements
The backgroundThe University of Leeds closed its School of Continuing Education in 2005, bringing to a conclusion 59 distinguished years. This was not an academic failure – far from it - but a financial problem. I had worked for the School (under its varying names) since 1969 and an unintended consequence of the closure was that my name was difficult to locate on the University’s website and a Google search was no longer headed by my email address. I therefore set up my own website to enable old friends to contact me as well as anyone else with offers of whatever kind. For the academic year 2006-7 I was Helen Cam Visiting Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge. I am now, as of September 2007, fully retired.
Some personal detailsI cut my teeth as an historian with a doctoral thesis on ‘Chartism in London’, supervised by Eric Hobsbawm and published as London Chartism, 1838-1848 (Cambridge University Press, 1982; paperback edition, 2002), and I have retained a specialist interest in the Chartist movement. More recently, however, I have become increasingly known as an authority on anarchism. But for many years I taught a series of interdisciplinary courses on Victorian studies, combining social and political history, literature, art history and architecture.
Some recent publications‘A Cult of Sensations: John Cowper Powys’s Life-Philosophy and Individualist Anarchism’, Powys Journal, XIV (2004), pp. 45-80. Entries on George Julian Harney, James Leach, Peter Murray M’Douall and William Lovett, in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004). (editor) For Workers’ Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2004), 379 pp. (with Paul Lewis) ‘Obituary: Christopher Pallis’, Guardian, 24 March 2005. L’Anarchie en société: Conversation avec Colin Ward (Lyons: Atelier de Création Libertaire, 2005), 151 pp. ‘Aldous Huxley and Alex Comfort: A Comparison’, in H. Gustav Klaus and Stephen Knight (eds.), ‘To Hell with Culture’: Anarchism and Twentieth-Century British Literature (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005), pp. 111-25. (editor) John Cowper Powys, The Art of Forgetting the Unpleasant and Other Essays (Bath: The Powys Society, 2006), 60pp. Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward (Liverpool University Press, 2006), xi + 401pp. 'Anarchism and the Welfare State: The Peckham Health Centre', <http://www.historyandpolicy.org/archive/policy-paper-55.html> (May 2007). (editor) Nicolas Walter, The Anarchist Past and Other Essays (Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2007), 253 pp. (editor) The Letters of John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman (London: Cecil Woolf, 2007), 188 pp.
Forthcoming publications(editor) Nicolas Walter, Damned Fools in Utopia and Other Essays (Oakland, CA: PM, 2008).‘Anarchism’, in Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). Seeds beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward (2nd edition; Oakland, CA: PM, 2009).
2008 8 March: 'William Morris and the Libertarian Tradition in Britain', William Morris Society, Kelmscott House, 26 Upper Mall, London W6 9TA. 17 May: 'Herbert Read: Yorkshireman, Anarchist, Modernist', Kirkdale Lecture 2008, St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire [Read is buried in the churchyard]. 19 June: 'The Mexican Revolution and Music', Leeds B'nai B'rith Music Society, Beth Hamidrash Hagadol Synagogue, Street Lane, Leeds 17. 30 August: 'John Cowper Powys, Emma Goldman and Anarchy', The Powys Society, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester, College Lane, Chichester, West Sussex. 4 September: Opening Address, 1st Anarchist Studies Network Conference, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire.
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