As ever - a great read - gonna get the Monibot. That academic tome looks really interesting too - it feels like there is a connection between the two - that Britain could have chosen a different path - built on collaboration not competition - the foundation of the NHS, the creation of New Towns and secondary education for all (all in this period) suggest this too - there was even debate from amongst Govt of effectively curbing the exclusivity of private (public) schools. This is actually Churchill in 1940 speaking at Harrow:
When the war is won ... it must be one of our aims to work to establish a state of society where the advantage and privileges which hitherto have been enjoyed only by the few should be more widely shared by the many and the youth of the nation as a whole (quoted in Simon 1991:81).
I’m also working on a ‘Condition of England’ novel which tries to explore some of this
As ever - a great read - gonna get the Monibot. That academic tome looks really interesting too - it feels like there is a connection between the two - that Britain could have chosen a different path - built on collaboration not competition - the foundation of the NHS, the creation of New Towns and secondary education for all (all in this period) suggest this too - there was even debate from amongst Govt of effectively curbing the exclusivity of private (public) schools. This is actually Churchill in 1940 speaking at Harrow:
When the war is won ... it must be one of our aims to work to establish a state of society where the advantage and privileges which hitherto have been enjoyed only by the few should be more widely shared by the many and the youth of the nation as a whole (quoted in Simon 1991:81).
I’m also working on a ‘Condition of England’ novel which tries to explore some of this