Rhian E. Jones

Rhian E. Jones (Wales, Britain) is a freelance writer and researcher. She grew up in Wales and now lives in London. She writes on history, politics and popular culture, and is particularly interested in how these things interact. Her first book, "Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Classand Gender", published in 2013, critiqued the interaction of politics and popculture in 1990s and 2000s Britain. In 2015 she published a historical research about militant and dangerous class struggles in Wales in the 19th century:"Petticoat Heroes. Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots".She has published other books on radical history and music criticism. Her latest project, published last year, is "Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Womenand the Women Who Love Them", a collection of writings by women on the experience of being a music fan. She also co-edit the website New Socialist,which focuses on discussion and analysis within the UK Labour Party and the broader left. More writings of her can be found on her blog "Velvet Coalmine".