Kit Kowol

Oh good. And that quote from Marx is “chefs kiss”.

I really enjoyed reviewing @kitkowol.bsky.social's "Blue Jerusalem" - an excellent new study of WW2-era British Conservatism, highlighting both its intellectual vitality and its practical political impact

So glad you enjoyed it David!

when you realize that the American unipolar global order was suppressing long-forgotten levels of public Frenchness

Paid bit is less good so maybe that paywall isn’t such a bad idea!

That feeling when you have been reviewed in the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social but don’t have access so can’t see what Ferdinand Mount wrote…

NAAFI apparently ran holiday camps for servicemen and their families between 1950 and 1980 - like an (even) more militarised version of bulletins I guess. Anyone here ever heard of stayed in one?

Fascinating! Thanks so much for sharing. Yet another reason for loving New Zealand.

The Silent Minute What do you do when your army has retreated, your ally has capitulated, and you face invasion? You pray.

Had great fun writing this. How a spiritualist vegetarian who believed he had found the Holy Grail convinced Churchill and 5 million Brits to pray for peace and freedom during WWII.

gethistory.co.uk/articles/20t...

Thanks for coming along. Nice cords too!

I see that my book made it into
@adamtooze.bsky.social “Chartbook”.

If you like long discussions of the political ramifications of British wartime food policy it’s the book for you!

SPEAKERS We Have Ways Fest is the UK’s number one, Second World War festival. Tanks, talks and tankards … experts, enthusiasts, authors, historians. Blackpit Farm, 8th – 10th September. WN…

The speaker line-up is out! Come see @kitkowol.bsky.social speak about his @oxfordacademic.bsky.social book “Blue Jerusalem” at We Have Ways Fest this September. wehavewaysfest.co.uk/line-up/

Brexit ideology was shaped in the 1990s, when great power conflict was largely over, European security was no longer at issue & the US underpinned a global free-trading system.

It was applied in a world more like the '70s, defined by great power conflict, resurgent protectionism & an unreliable US.

Thanks. Though it came as a surprise to read that I lamented the maintenance of the empire, church and monarchy!

Geoffrey Wheatcroft · New Deal at Dunkirk: Wartime Tories Even if they had been appeasers, most Conservatives accepted the patriotic necessity of the war, but had many different...

“Absorbing and original”

Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews @kitkowol.bsky.social’s “Blue Jerusalem” for @lrb.co.uk @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Fab! That’s one step closer to me buying a new safari suit. Hope you enjoy it!

Knowing I was being reviewed in the @lrb.co.uk may have given me a few sleepless nights…

So chuffed to see the book described as“absorbing and original”!

80 years ago a bus strike meant many people had to walk to central London for #VEDay. A potent marker of how Churchill had fought a Tory War but the peace would belong to Labour.

Read more in my book:

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

And Welsh history I assume?

Guide horse - Wikipedia

I think I might have found the world’s best Wikipedia article.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_h...

Looks cool!

Maybe we're asking the wrong questions about gender part #3578

There’s a joke to be made here about decolonisation and lynx Africa but for the life of me I can’t work it out.

Up the stakes and suggest you will get a 90s cellphone belt clip as an alternative.

Has the Chagos Islands deal killed progressive realism? | David Blagden and Patrick Porter | The Critic Magazine Whatever happened to progressive realism? As you may recall, that was the foreign policy doctrine declared by the incoming Labour government’s foreign secretary, David Lammy. The short answer is that…

The indefatigable Patrick Porter and I have a piece in The Critic on flaws in the Chagos deal, progressive realism, and how a superior version of the latter - that could yet dodge the pitfalls of the former - is still there for the taking. thecritic.co.uk/has-the-chag...

Preach.

Online would be amazing! I’m researching British conservative ideas of Australia since the war.

Does anyone know if it is possible to look at back issues of the now defunct “Right Now!” magazine - @evansmithhist.bsky.social I wonder?

Oh I don’t disagree in that it wasn’t particularly effective but it wasn’t out of the Tory mainstream at the time or imho all that surprising in the context of what Labour was doing at the time (and more importantly) what they feared they might go on to do…

Yup!