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Alan Buttle Radio ShowEpisode 30 - Pseudoantiestablishmentarianism, Fabian Society, LSE, Bloomsbury Group, Cambridge Apostles, Beatrice Webb, Keynes and HayekIn this episode i explore the Fabian roots of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). I also explore Beatrice Webb's family history and hers and Sidney's roles in early British socialism, as well as their Coefficients dining club. I discuss the Bloomsbury Group, born of the Cambridge Apostles, and discuss (again) the public Keynes vs Hayek battle of economic thought for public consumption, and their intriguing friendship. The Bloomsbury Group (youtube) [talk by Jean Moorcroft-Wilson] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRM81Yv0uC0Former Fabian Society logo, the...2019-10-271h 22
The TLS PodcastWW1: Remembering / forgettingTo mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, the TLS's History editor David Horspool talks us through books, exhibitions and events that commemorate cataclysmic slaughter and scars that endure to this day; it’s easy to think of privacy invasion as a peculiarly modern phenomenon, but it has its own history dating back to the American Civil War – Sarah Igo tells us more; finally, the food writer Bee Wilson discusses two new cookbooks that capture a “fresh mood of experiment in the kitchen”Works discussedPandora’s Box: A history of the First Worl...2018-11-0847 min
Talking BooksChapter 234: Robert Graves with Jean Moorcroft Wilson2018-11-0552 min
Talking BooksChapter 234: Robert Graves with Jean Moorcroft Wilson2018-11-0500 min
First World War Poetry Digital ArchiveFrom Owen's Doomed Youth, to his doomed youthLecture at the event 'Wilfred Owen: From Doomed Youth to the Battle of the Sambre'. Imperial War Museum, 10th November 2012. In this talk, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, presents Owen's full flowering as a late one. Fertilized by his meeting with Sassoon at Craiglockhart War Hospital for Neurasthenic Officers in August 1917 and nurtured by his own experiences of the 'pity of war', it died with Owen himself in one of the last Allied engagements in November 1917, the Battle of the Sambre.2013-02-2700 min
In Our TimeSiegfried SassoonMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war poet Siegfried Sassoon. In 1916 the Military Cross was awarded to a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers for "conspicuous gallantry during a raid on the enemy's trenches". The citation noted that he had braved "rifle and bomb fire" and that "owing to his courage and determination, all the killed and wounded were brought in". The hero in question was the poet, Siegfried Sassoon. And yet a year later, and at great personal risk, Sassoon publicly denounced the conduct of the war in which he had fought so well.Although famous for his...2007-06-0742 min