tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486014069491785541.post8029207511254884081..comments2023-10-30T06:46:03.614-07:00Comments on Outlandish Knight: Literary ley linesDavid Pettshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514706608520437856noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486014069491785541.post-17122025888567163902008-10-15T13:53:00.000-07:002008-10-15T13:53:00.000-07:00Incidentally the O.G.S. Crawford bio is great read...Incidentally the O.G.S. Crawford bio is great reading...picked up on this because I used to be an archaeologist, fascism is a very flexible form of fundamentalism so 'back to land' can be part of it...tragically the 'Early Green Politics' (see Gould's book of this title) collapsed with the degeneration of the left into Fabianism and Stalinism...thus people like Gardiner moved to the right.<BR/><BR/>Edward Carpenter is worth looking at if you are interested in early green radicals..Derek Wallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486014069491785541.post-55546455278666435532008-10-13T15:21:00.001-07:002008-10-13T15:21:00.001-07:00Lees-Milne, that is, with an "s"Lees-Milne, that is, with an "s"Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04315105493443923507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486014069491785541.post-86208414383328853612008-10-13T15:21:00.000-07:002008-10-13T15:21:00.000-07:00Shouldn't that be ironstone miners (with an "e")?A...Shouldn't that be ironstone miners (with an "e")?<BR/><BR/>And just after reading your post I went to a library sale where I picked up an anthology of "speeches and radio talks" which included not only "We'll fight them on the beaches" but, among a dozen other things, James Lees-Milne's "Who Cares for England?" (it's a rather dated anthology, as you might expect from a library sale, specifically designed for teaching English in Belgian schools - I somehow can't imagine that any child in an English classroom was ever made to read a radio talk by James Lee-Milne).Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04315105493443923507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486014069491785541.post-28967786626585485702008-10-13T05:10:00.000-07:002008-10-13T05:10:00.000-07:00Thanks for this- very interesting stuff. Its fasci...Thanks for this- very interesting stuff. Its fascinating that in the inter-war period, which is often characterised as a time of the drawing of battle lines between the left and right in the forms of Moscow Communism and Fascism, that, in practice, ideological boundaries were very blurred (even confused). You can see this tension in people like Gardiner; he undeniably made some rather unpleasant links with individuals who were unequivocally fascists. However, some of his 'back to the land' activities, such as Heartbreak Hill in Cleveland, a development put in place for unemployed ironstone minors would fit comfortably into the category of 'leftist/proto-communist' (though see Malcolm Chase's article 'Heartbreak Hill : environment, unemployment and "back to the land" in inter-war Cleveland'. Oral History, 28:1 (2000), 33-42).David Pettshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13514706608520437856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486014069491785541.post-18490722815074905112008-10-11T13:14:00.000-07:002008-10-11T13:14:00.000-07:00http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2007/01/ro...http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2007/01/rolf-gardiner-and-roots-of-far-right.html<BR/><BR/>may be of interestDerek Wallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com