Penguin Books and political change by Dean Blackburn

Author:Dean Blackburn [Blackburn, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, Great Britain, General, Language Arts & Disciplines, Publishers & Publishing Industry, Political Science
ISBN: 9781526129284
Google: TFb2yQEACAAJ
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2020-10-15T16:14:53+00:00

1 Jim Tomlinson, The Politics of Decline (London: Routledge, 2000).

2 Kenneth O. Morgan, The People’s Peace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 199. Jefferys, Retreat from New Jerusalem, p. 111. Matthew Grant, ‘Historians, Penguin Specials and the “State-of-the-Nation” Literature, 1958–64’, Contemporary British History, Vol. 17, No. 3 (2006), pp. 29–54. Also see Kenneth O. Morgan, Ages of Reform (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010), p. 228; Ian Budge, ‘Relative Decline as a Political Issue’, Contemporary British History, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1993), pp. 1–23; Jim Tomlinson ‘Thrice Denied: “Declinism” as a Recurrent Theme in British History in the Long Twentieth Century’, Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2009), pp. 227–251; Richard English and Michael Kenny (eds), Rethinking British Decline (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1999).

3 Ortolano has drawn attention to the way in which the phenomenon of decline was seized upon by actors making very different political arguments. Guy Ortolano, ‘Decline as a Weapon in Cultural Politics’ in Wm. Roger Louis (ed.), Penultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (London: I.B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 201–211.

4 For discussions of the economic ideas that emerged in this period, see Matthijs, Ideas and Economic Crises, pp. 85–86; G. C. Peden, British Economic and Social Policy: From Lloyd George to Margaret Thatcher (Oxford: Philip Allen, 1985), pp. 164–202.

5 Lewis, Penguin Special, p. 269. Hewison, Culture and Consensus, p. 79.

6 Hoggart, ‘The Reader’, p. 29.

7 Allen Lane to Richard Lane, 31 December 1957. PA: DM1819/2/0/2.

8 Alan Glover’s resignation letter, 30 March 1958. PA: DM1819/1/1. Lewis, Penguin Special, pp. 301–315. W. E. Williams became a director of the firm, but he exerted a less prominent influence over the firm’s editorial direction.

9 Tony Godwin, ‘Paperbacks’, New Statesman, 14 July 1961. Also see Lewis, Penguin Special, pp. 343–348.

10 Al Alvarez, ‘Author’s Editor’, London Review of Books, 24 January 1980.

11 Rylance, ‘Reading with a Mission’.

12 Lewis, Penguin Special, pp. 349–369.

13 Tony Godwin, ‘Views’, Listener, 15 May 1969.

14 In a letter that was written in December 1966, he expressed admiration for Robin Blackburn’s contribution to the 1967 Special The Incompatibles: Trade Union Militancy and the Consensus (Penguin, 1967). PA: DM1107/S262.

15 Rylance, ‘Reading with a Mission’, p. 59.

16 Dieter Pevsner, ‘The Demands of Another 30 Years’, Guardian, 26 September 1968.

17 Eric de Bellaigue, ‘The Extraordinary Flight of Book Publishing’s Wingless Bird’, Logos, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2001), p. 75.

18 Tony Godwin to Bertrand Russell, 7 March 1961. PA: DM1107/S206.

19 Michael Kenny, The First New Left (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1995), p. 193.

20 Tony Godwin to Bertrand Russell, 7 March 1961. PA: DM1107/S206. Bertrand Russell, Has Man a Future? (Penguin, 1960).

21 Cited in Hewison, Culture and Consensus, pp. 89–91.

22 Tom Maschler (ed.), Declaration (London: Macgibbon & Key, 1957). Tom Maschler, Publisher (Oxford: Picador, 2005), pp. 44–45. One of the most popular ‘Angry Young Men’ texts, John Braine’s Room at the Top, was published by Penguin in 1959.

23 David Marquand, ‘Lucky Jim and the Labour Party’, Universities and Left Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1957), p. 57.

24 Jeffrey Pickering, Britain’s Withdrawal from East of Suez (London: Palgrave, 1998); L.

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