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Training Minds for the War of Ideas - Ashridge College, the Conservative Party and the Cultural Politics of Britain, 1929-54 (Paperback)
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Training Minds for the War of Ideas - Ashridge College, the Conservative Party and the Cultural Politics of Britain, 1929-54 (Paperback)
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This book examines attempts by the Conservative party in the
interwar years to capture the 'brains' of the new electorate and
create a counter-culture to what they saw as the intellectual
hegemony of the Left. It tells the fascinating story of the Bonar
Law Memorial College, Ashridge, founded in 1929 as a 'College of
citizenship' to provide political education through both teaching
and publications. The College aimed at creating 'Conservative
Fabians' who were to publish and disseminate Conservative
literature, which meant not only explicitly political works but
literary, historical and cultural work that carried implicit
Conservative messages. This book modifies our understanding of the
history of the Conservative party and popular Conservatism, but
also more generally of the history of intellectual debate in
Britain. It sheds new light on the history of the 'middlebrow' and
how that category became a weapon for the Conservatives. -- .
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