Richard Johnson and Lee Evans
25 January 2026

Richard Johnson and Lee Evans

Better Known

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Richard Johnson and Lee Evans discuss with Ivan six things which should be better known.


Richard Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Queen Mary University of London. With Lee Evans, he is the co-host of the 'Since Attlee and Churchill' podcast. He is the author of several books on British and US politics, including The End of the Second Reconstruction: Obama, Trump, and the Crisis of Civil Rights and Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922 (with Gavin Hyman and Mark Garnett).


Lee David Evans is John Ramsden Fellow at the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London.


You can buy their books at https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-by-richard-lee?&new-list-page=true and you can listen to their podcast at https://open.spotify.com/show/1ZZKNZvT1JLCTELwCoRtAc.



    The Reconstruction era in the US https://www.amazon.co.uk/End-Second-Reconstruction-Richard-Johnson/dp/1509538348
    Lord Timothy Dexter https://shahmm.medium.com/the-ridiculous-rise-of-lord-timothy-dexter-a-tale-of-lucky-blunders-and-accidental-brilliance-4b9037a62bdd
    Anne Kerr MP https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/11/anne-kerr-labour-party-mp-rochester-vietnam-apartheid-chicago-europe-france
    Peter Walker https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v13/n23/hugo-young/rubbishing-the-revolution
    Quiet Court https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/what-happened-to-the-grace-and-favour-house-for/id1785733887?i=1000683681568
    Memory Hold the Door by John Buchan https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1966/02/17/the-sweet-smell-of-success/


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