Christmas Eve seems an appropriate moment for a brief review of where I’ve got to on this project, but before doing so it’s worth noting that last week I had lunch in West Sussex with Charles Fairey, CRF’s grandson and the son of Richard Fairey. Charles was both welcoming and charming, and it quickly became …
Monthly Archive: December 2013
Dec 10
Always hit ‘publish’
Keen readers will note that my last blog entry dates from mid-November but has only just been posted a month later. Having previewed the entry I foolishly forgot to hit ‘Publish’, and so my polished thoughts have remained in the draft folder for over three weeks. There’s a lesson there of course, namely always check. …
Dec 10
The New Jerusalem and the New Sparta
David Edgerton produced a great sound bite early in the first programme of James Holland’s two-part documentary for BBC2, Cold War Hot Jets: the now familiar ‘warfare Britain’ was intent on creating the New Jerusalem and the New Sparta. Peter Hennessy also appeared, and the first quarter of the programme suggested that its content would be as …
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
