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I don't buy the whole 'losers' lazy story.Patrick Hamilton and Julian MacClaren-Ross also capture what life was like for life's losers in that period.
I don't buy the whole 'losers' lazy story.Patrick Hamilton and Julian MacClaren-Ross also capture what life was like for life's losers in that period.
I love The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. This will be right up my street.Love on the Dole bit of a classic.
Recommend me something by Patrick Hamilton. I will seek it out.Patrick Hamilton and Julian MacClaren-Ross also capture what it was like for life's losers in that period.
When the Boat Comes In is excellent, final season may be a little weaker, but well worth watchingI love The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. This will be right up my street.
Some digging around led me to When the Boat Comes In. I'm a 1980's kid, never watched it. Is it any good?
Hangover Square, The Slaves of Solitude. The Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky trilogy. All of them excellent. Dark, but witty and entertaining.Recommend me something by Patrick Hamilton. I will seek it out.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming up for Air.
Way better than Animal Farm or 1984 too.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming up for Air.
Way better than Animal Farm or 1984 too.
Fenner Brockway's daughter was my Woodcraft Folk leader. Of course i didn't know what that meant at the time...If municipal socialists are of interest, Fenner Brockway's 'Bermondsey Story, the life of Alfred Salter' and 'Ada Salter: Pioneer of Ethical Socialism', by Graham Taylor (not, I assume, the footballing one) may be of interest - they were active in the liberal party, then Independent Labour Party, then Labour Party before, during and after the 1914 War.
They were both Bermondsey (and from memory, LCC councillors), he was MP as well. She was London's first woman mayor, and the first labour woman mayor in the country.
May be a case of trying to see if library has them - the former seems to be going for a bloody silly price, which I certainly didn't pay, and the latter seems to be confused in some catalogues with a book about border collies (I got the border collies book from somewhere that's not amazon when i tried to buy it and sent it back... did get a copy second hand somewhere else which i haven't got round to reading yet.)
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His granddaughter was in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Murder She Wrote.More on George Lansbury would be much appreciated puddy_tat. He's a very interesting figure.
More on George Lansbury would be much appreciated puddy_tat. He's a very interesting figure.
His granddaughter was in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Murder She Wrote.
wasn't janine booth (who wrote the book about minnie lansbury, not simply a random question) in the awl?i got a copy of 'Good Old George: The Life of George Lansbury' by Bob Holman (second-paw copies on e-bay for 3 - 4 quid) and am part way through reading it.
and a grandson was oliver postgate, one of the creators of ivor the engine, bagpuss, the clangers and so on (OP was a conscientious objector in the 1939 war, and later an anti-nuclear campaigner. there were one or two mildly subversive bits in the smallfilms animations - ivor and jones the steam's action in hiding a fox from the local hunt probably counts as sabbing, although i didn't quite grasp this when i was a kitten.)
minnie lansbury was GL's daughter-in-law (angela lansbury was daughter of minnie's husband and his second wife) - she was a suffragette and poplar councillor (who also ended up in the nick as a result of their action on rates, and died quite young, from pneumonia, possibly as a result of being inside) - there is a book on her life which seems to be out of print and bloody expensive unless you do the e-book thing (suggestion it's being re-printed.)
This long-term controversy over economic and imperial strategy had major implications for fascism in Britain because it fostered the interaction between fascists and conservatives. It is often argued that British fascism inevitably failed because it made no appeal to conventional right-wing forces. In fact, the problem lay more in the extent to which conventional conservatism managed to satisfy the concerns that animated fascists or offered a vehicle for their aims. It proved relatively easy for Tory MPs to operate in both fascist and conservative organizations simultaneously during the interwar period.
Some of them frankly characterized fascism as a more virile expression of their party’s creed. All the elements of protectionism—the protection of British jobs, the development of the empire, the exclusion of foreign products, and the attack on the influence of Jews and financiers—carried conviction on the right because they spoke to long-standing grievances.
Perhaps the most obvious of the preconditions for interwar fascism was the anti-Semitism that was rife throughout British society and across the political spectrum. Its best-known advocates were the writer and MP Hilaire Belloc and his friends Cecil Chesterton and G. K. Chesterton, who used their journals the Eye Witness and My Weekly as vehicles for anti-Semitic propaganda. They fostered the stereotyped view of Jews as “a non-Christian culture, embedded for ages in what has always been a Christian culture, [which] acts as an irritant and to some extent as a parasite, because it trades and schemes but does not plough or produce.”7 They blamed Jews for virtually all historic and recent disasters, including the Boer War and the revolutionary movements in Russia, and condemned them as basically disloyal. Some of the anti-Semites and eugenicists of Edwardian Britain advocated Zionism and even approved the use of the “lethal chamber” to eliminate undesirable elements from society.
In fact, however, the defining characteristic of the Edwardian era was a crisis of conservatism. Alarmed by the pace of social change and the rise of the labor movement, and frustrated by its own impotence, sections of the Edwardian right began to display a dangerous disillusionment with conventional politics. Not only did Conservatives lose three elections in 1906 and 1910, but the Liberals’ electoral pact with the Labour Party and the Irish Nationalists appeared capable of excluding the Tories from power indefinitely. Quite suddenly, the political agenda had changed.
Fenner Brockway's daughter was my Woodcraft Folk leader. Of course i didn't know what that meant at the time...
Indeed he did.
It's an excellent song with no shortage of optimism and nodding to the labour movement. However, "they brought prosperity down at the armoury" never really made sense to me in light of Chamberlain and the policy of appeasement.