Gordon Marsden, Esq, MP

Surname: MARSDEN
Style: Gordon Marsden, Esq, MP
Recreations: swimming, choral and early music, theatre, medieval culture and travel

Career: tutor and lectr Open Univ 1977-97, public affrs/PR conslt 1980-85 (public affrs advsr Eng Heritage 1984-85), conslt ed New Socialist 1989-90, ed History Today 1985-97; MP (Lab) Blackpool S 1997- (Parly candidate (Lab) Blackpool S 1992); memb Commons Select Ctee Education and Employment 1998-2001 and 2005-07, PPS to Sec of State for Culture, Media and Sport 2003-05, PPS to Sec of State for Communities and Local Govt 2009-10, shadow min for communities and local govt 2010, shadow min for skills and further educn 2010-; chair All-Pty Future of Europe Tst 2001-10, chair All-Pty Skills Gp, convenor Lab MPs Seaside and Coastal Towns Gp; chm Young Fabians 1979-80, chair Fabian Soc 2000-01; pres British Resorts and Destinations Assoc 1998-; tstee: Dartmouth Street Tst 1997-2010 (chair 2010-), History Today Ltd 1997-, History of Parliament 1999-; memb Bd Inst of Historical Res 1994-2003; nat vice-chair Early Educn 2000-; visiting Parly fell St Antony's Coll Oxford 2003, Historical Assoc centenary fell 2006-07

Books and Publications: The History Debate (contrib, 1990), Holland's War Against Hitler (contrib, 1991), Victorian Values? Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Society (2 edn, 1998), The English Question (contrib, 2000), Censorship: A World Encyclopedia (contrib, 2002)