Craig Heron is a Professor of History at York University

York University

York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

. Influenced by E.P. Thompson, he is considered to be one of the founders of the "New Labour History", which brought Marxist theory to the study of Canada's working-class.

In the 1970s Heron was a key member of New Hogtown Press

New Hogtown Press

New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.The press originated as the literature service of the Canadian Union of Students , producing and distributing pamphlets on education, Canadian political economy, and other issues during the late 1960s...

, a left-wing Canadian publisher pioneering the field of activist-oriented working class and social history.

The author of numerous works on the Canadian labour movement, Heron has recently shifted towards the more fashionable cultural history

Cultural history

The term cultural history refers both to an academic discipline and to its subject matter.Cultural history, as a discipline, at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural...

 field, authoring Booze: A Distilled History in 2003. He is past president of the Canadian Historical Association

Canadian Historical Association

The Canadian Historical Association is a Canadian organization founded in 1922 for the purposes of promoting historical research and scholarship. Marius Barbeau, the anthropologist, was its founding Secretary...

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