Heartfield has written books on the history of theBritish Empire, includingThe British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (2016) andThe Blood-Stained Poppy: A critique of the politics of commemoration (2019). Heartfield has written forArtReview,Blueprint,Spiked Online, and theTimes Education Supplement. His Ph.D. thesis (awarded by theUniversity of Westminster) was published asThe European Union and the End of Politics, in 2013.[2]
Britain's Empires: A History, 1600–2020 London, Anthem Press, 2022
The Blood-Stained Poppy: A critique of the politics of commemoration London, Zer0 Books, 2019
The Equal Opportunities Revolution London,Repeater Books, 2017
The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society London Hurst Books/Oxford University Press, 2016[8]
Who's Afraid of the Easter Rising? (with Kevin Rooney), London Zer0, Books, 2015
The European Union and the End of Politics London, Zer0 Books, 2013[9]
British Workers & the US Civil War London, Reverspective, 2013[10]
Unpatriotic History of the Second World War London, Zer0 Books, 2012[11]
The Aborigines' Protection Society: Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1836–1909 Hurst (London), and Columbia University Press (New York), 2011[12]
Green Capitalism: manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance,Openmute, 2008[13]
Let's Build! Why we need Five Million Homes in the next 10 Years (Audacity, 2006)