Mark Cartwright

Mark Cartwright

Biography

Mark is WHE's Publishing Director. He is a professional writer, researcher, historian, and editor. His studies at the University of York and University of Teesside focused on political history, constitutional theory, military history, and political philosophy. He has been a history writer since 2012. He is interested in art and architecture, and especially ancient pottery and what these everyday objects can reveal about past lives and traditions. Other interests include maritime history, exploration, and polar history. Having lived in Italy and the Czech Republic, been a frequent visitor to Greece, and now based in France, he is a great believer in Jacque-Yves Cousteau's maxim: Il faut aller voir - we must go and look for ourselves - and hopes his articles and photos will inspire visitors to WHE to do the same.

'I have no need to observe that I do not wilfully or negligently mislead my readers, and that before I wrote that description I took pains to investigate the subject.'
Charles Dickens
Preface to Bleak House

Education

  • MA Political Philosophy, University of York
  • BA Politics (1st), University of Teesside

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BBC  1941, Stalin and the Man of Steel
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BBC 1941, Stalin and the Man of Steel

BBC 1941, Stalin and the Man of Steel
The World Wars: Joseph Stalin | History
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The World Wars: Joseph Stalin | History

Mini-biography on the life of Joseph Stalin. #HISTORY Get daily updates on history: http://www.history.com/news/...
Stalinism Triumphant: Famine, Terror, And Hitler's Shadow, 1929-1941
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Stalinism Triumphant: Famine, Terror, And Hitler's Shadow, 1929-1941

The Hoover Institution hosted "Stalinism Triumphant: Famine, Terror, and Hitler's Shadow...
Stakhanov Drilling Coal
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Stakhanov Drilling Coal

Alexei Stakhanov, a coal miner in the Donbas region, then within the USSR, photograph by Eleazar Langman, circa 1935. Stakhanov...
Time Magazine Cover with Alexei Stakhanov
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Time Magazine Cover with Alexei Stakhanov

The cover of Time magazine (December 1935) showing Alexei Stakhanov, a coal miner in the Donbas region, then...
Stalin's Great Purge
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Stalin's Great Purge - State Oppression in the USSR

Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, also known as the Great Terror of 1936-8, was the most manic part of...
Joseph Stalin by Brodsky
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Joseph Stalin by Brodsky

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), ruler of the USSR from 1929 until 1953, painting by Isaak Brodsky, 1937.
Nikolai Bukharin
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Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), a prominent member of the Bolshevik Revolution and the ruling Soviet Communist Party, photographed...
Stalin With & Without Ezhov
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Stalin With & Without Ezhov

On the left, a 1937 photograph at the Volga dam showing, in the centre, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1878-1953...
Marshal Tukhachevsky
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Marshal Tukhachevsky

Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky (born 1893), hero of the USSR until his execution in 1937 during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge...
Stalin's Gulag System
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Stalin's Gulag System - The USSR's Labour Camps

Joseph Stalin's gulag system was a network of labour camps across the USSR, which were, from 1930, used...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a former inmate of Stalin's gulag system, a network of forced labour camps across the USSR in operation...

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