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Category Archives: England
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941
Here are some highlights of this 2020 book by professor Alan Allport: * A war fought in defence of Poland or Romania would be ‘devastating’; the independence of neither state was of any inherent vital interest to Britain, or possible … Continue reading
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The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
Here are some highlights from this 2008 book by David Goldblatt: * The British historian Eric Hobsbawm encapsulated this oddity when he wrote ‘The twentieth century was the American century in every way but one: sport.’ This is not exactly … Continue reading
The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning And Making Of English Football
Here are some highlights from this 2015 book by David Goldblatt: * Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate governor of Aden, told Denis Healey, then Britain’s defense secretary, that, “When the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it … Continue reading
Long May He Rule Over Us
Once you’ve read a few books on kings and queens, Donald Trump doesn’t seem so strange. For example, let us take King John of Magna Carta fame. Peter Ackroyd notes: “[H]e fined York and Newcastle for not affording him an … Continue reading
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The Champions Of Chastity
I love reading stories about those great souls who put the realm of the spirit first. Peter Ackroyd writes in his 2013 book Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors: At a convent, near Watton … Continue reading
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The Balfour Declaration
Wikipedia says: “The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman … Continue reading
British Political Drama Tropes
I’m watching the new BBC drama series Shearwood and I’m recognizing some patterns in the genre: * In most British dramatic series about politics, there’s an old character who’s done terrible things who kills himself rather than reveals himself. Characters … Continue reading
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Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States
Here are some highlights from this 2012 book by David Hackett Fischer: * When one compares these many accounts, one notices that the same language of description tends to occur. Karl Popper described New Zealanders as “decent, friendly and well-disposed.” … Continue reading
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Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America
Here are some of my favorite bits from this 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer: * Folkways in this normative sense exist in advanced civilizations as well as in primitive societies. They are functioning systems of high complexity which have … Continue reading
Dominic Cummings
From the New York Review of Books: “Cummings, while individually odd, is in many ways a familiar political archetype. The annals of politics are replete with advisers who seemed to be impregnable and uniquely insightful until, just like that, they … Continue reading
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