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Kit Kowol

Brisbane
As seen in: Wiley Online Library, OUPblog, Oxford University Press (OUP), The Conversation, City AM, King's College London, History Today, ConservativeHome, Literary Review, Quadrant Online and
Sometime historian, full time dog dad. "Blue Jerusalem" (OUP, 2024) "Warrior Britain: a Nation in Arms" (Allen Lane, forthcoming)
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The Past or a Foreign Country? Should the Conservatives Look to Churchill or Australia After the 2024 General Election?

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By Kit Kowol
| Wiley Online Library Verified
Following its defeat at the 2024 general election, the Conservative Party will likely look for lessons either in its past—specifically its successful response to Labour's landslide victory in 1945—or from sister parties overseas, notably the Australian Liberal Party. The article argues that Britain and the Conservative Party have changed so fundamentally since the end of the World War Two—and indeed since 1997—to make any comparison meaningless.
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New Jerusalem to Blue Jerusalem: radical visions of Britain's postwar future

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By Kit Kowol
| OUPblog
By Kit Kowol September 30th 2024 The last verse of William Blake’s epic poem written in 1804 reads: I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, In Englands green & pleasant Land. Based on the theme of the Book of Revelations and its description of the Second Coming, it asks whether Jesus ever visited England and thus, for a brief moment, created Heaven on earth, while also imploring its readers to create an ideal society today.
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Radical Conservative Possibilities

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By Kit Kowol, Peter O'Brien, Mervyn F. Bendle, Peter SMith, Peter Smith
| Quadrant Online Verified
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War by Kit Kowol Oxford University Press, 2024, 352 pages, $63.95 This intriguing book should appeal to those interested in British military, political, and cultural history, as well as those concerned with the very considerable philosophical and political possibilities of conservatism, both as they existed during the Second World War era and as they exist now.
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