John Merrick is a writer

Originally from Crewe, he now lives in London where he works as an editor at Verso Books (currently on sabbatical until July 2021). He write about class, culture, place, deindustrialisation, intellectual history, historiography, and British and Global history.

His work has appeared in TLS, New Statesman, Tribune, Jacobin, New Left Review, Boston Review and elsewhere. Some of his recent writing is available here.

He is currently working on a book project about the experience of working class life in contemporary Britain – and the social and cultural effects of class – based on his childhood and family life in a deindustrialised Northern town.

For all enquiries, email johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com

He is also on twitter, @johnphilipmerrick