# Matthew Worley

Matthew Worley is a British academic and author. He is Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading.

## Education

He attended Heartsease Comprehensive School in Norwich. He completed his BA and PhD studies at the University of Nottingham.

## Research

Worley has two main fields of historical interest: 20th century British communism and fascism, and punk and post-punk subculture and popular music. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
He is founder and co-editor of the journal Twentieth Century Communism. He is also a founding member of the Subcultures Network, a group of over 5000 people who research and are interested in subcultural practices.

## CRASH!

From 1997, Worley has worked with the artist and designer Scott King under the name CRASH!. Together, they have published numerous magazines, held exhibitions, made a film and contributed to art shows. In 1999, they formed part of Malcolm McLaren's project to become Mayor of London.

## Books

* Worley, M. 2017. No Future: Politics, Punk and Society, 1976-84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI 10.1017/9781316779569
* Worley, M. 2010. Oswald Mosley and the New Party. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-20697-7.
* Worley, M. 2005. Labour Inside the Gate: A History of the British Labour Party Between the Wars. London: IB Tauris. ISBN 9781845113322.
* 2002 Class Against Class: The Communist Party in Britain Between the Wars (I.B.Tauris)

## Edited collections

* Smith, E. and Worley, M., eds. 2021. The British Left and Ireland in the 20th Century. London: Routledge.
* Henry, W. and Worley, M., eds. 2021. Narratives From Beyond the UK Reggae Bassline: The System is Sound. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
* Puccini, J., Smith, E., and Worley, M., eds. 2018. The Far Left in Australia since 1945. London: Routledge.
* 2018 (Subcultures Network) Ripped, Torn and Cut: Pop, Politics and Punk Fanzines from 1976 (Manchester University Press)
* Smith, E., and Worley, M., eds. 2017. Waiting for the Revolution: The British Far Left from 1956. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
* Copsey, N., and Worley, M. 2017. Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967. London: Routledge.
* Dines, M., and Worley, M. 2016. The Aesthetic of our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics and Music. Colchester: Minor Compositions. Open Access.
* Subcultures Network (Worley, M. a member of), eds. 2015. Fight Back: Punk, Politics and Resistance. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
* 2014 (ed) with Evan Smith, Against the Grain: The Far Left in Britain from 1956 (Manchester University Press
* Worley, M., ed. 2009. The Foundations of the British Labour Party: Identities, Cultures and Perspectives. Ashgate.
* 2008 (ed.) with N. LaPorte & K. Morgan, Bolshevism, Stalinism and the Comintern: Perspectives on Stalinization, 1917–53 (Palgrave Macmillan).
* 2005 (ed.) Labour’s Grass Roots: Essays on the Activities of Local Labour Parties and Members, 1918–45 (Ashgate)
* 2004 (ed.) In Search of Revolution: International Communist Parties in the Third Period (I.B.Tauris)

## Selected articles

* 2022 ‘Whip in My Valise: British Punk and the Marquis de Sade, c. 1975–85’, Contemporary British History, 36/2
* 2020 ‘If I had more time it could be better, but the new wave’s about spontaneity, right?’: Finding meaning in Britain’s early punk fanzines (1976–77), Punk & Post-Punk, 9/2
* 2018 (with John Street & David Wilkinson), ‘“Does it threaten the status quo?’ Elite Responses to British Punk, 1976–78’, Popular Music, 37/2
* 2018 (with Kirsty Lohman), ‘Bloody Revolutions, Fascist Dreams, Anarchy and Peace: Crass, Rondos and the Politics of Punk, 1977–84’, Britain and the World: Historical Journal of the British Scholar Society, 11/1,
* 2016 ‘Marx–Lenin–Rotten–Strummer: British Marxism and Youth Culture in the 1970s’, Contemporary British History, 30/4
* 2016 (with Nigel Copsey), ‘White Youth: The Far Right, Punk and British Youth Culture’, Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, 9,
* 2015 ‘Punk, Politics and British (fan)zines, 1976–84: “While the world was dying, did you wonder why?”’, History Workshop Journal, 79
* 2014 ‘“Hey Little Rich Boy, Take a Good Look at Me”: Punk, Class and British Oi!’, Punk & Post-Punk, 3/1
* 2013 ‘Oi! Oi! Oi!: Class, Locality and British Punk’, Twentieth Century British History, 24/4,
* 2012 ‘Shot By Both Sides: Punk, Politics and the End of “Consensus”’, Contemporary British History, 26/3, 333–54
* 2011 ‘One Nation Under the Bomb: The Cold War and British Punk to 1984’, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 5/2,
* 2011 ‘Why Fascism? Sir Oswald Mosley and the Conception of the British Union of Fascists’, History, 96/1, 66–81
* 2007 ‘What Was the New Party? Sir Oswald Mosley and Associated Responses to the “Crisis”, 1931–32’, History, 92/1
* 2004 (with Karen Hunt), ‘Rethinking British Communist Party Women in the 1920s’, Twentieth Century British History, 15/1
* 2000 ‘Left Turn: A Reassessment of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the Third Period, 1928–35’, Twentieth Century British History, 11/4,
* 2000 ‘The Communist International, the CPGB and the Third Period’, European History Quarterly, 30/2