By J. P. Kenyon
The interval from 1680 to approximately 1720 was once some of the most complicated and tough within the background of British politics, to contemporaries in addition to to posterity. The parameters of political legal responsibility have been decisively shifted by means of the Revolution of 1688; statesmen and politicians had now to accustom themselves to the newness of a parliament in consultation each year; Britain was once nearly continually engaged within the so much formidable and costly wars in her heritage up to now; political events have been gradual to shape, and of uncertain reputation after they did. Professor Kenyon's Ford Lectures, introduced in Oxford in 1976 and now released as a paperback for the 1st time, stay a typical account of the interval. For this reissue, Professor Kenyon has written a brand new preface which discusses the booklet within the mild of contemporary historiography.
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653. 29 Lago, India’s Prisoner, p. 293. , p. 309. 31 Ibid. , p. 308. Ibid. Thompson, Writing by Candlelight, p. 142. EP Thompson, Beyond the Frontier: The Politics of a Failed Mission, Merlin Press, London, 1997, p. 47. 36 Interviews with historians, ‘Penelope Corfield and EP Thompson’, Institute of Historical Research videowork, 1992. 37 Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe, Harper and Row, New York, 1979, pp. 34–35. ╛╛48–49. ╛╛18. 40 Ibid. 41 Margot Heinemann discusses the hostile attitude of the Third Period Communist Party to intellectuals in ‘The People’s Front and the Intellectuals’, in Britain, Fascism, and the Popular Front, ed.
At Oxford Frank came to realise that Britain’s political establishment and its traditional left-wing parties were unwilling to face down the fascist threat. The Munich crisis of September 1938 stirred debate in Britain about the threat, and briefly pushed the Labour and Liberal parties leftward, but the defeat of AD Lindsay in Oxford’s by-election showed that much of the population still supported Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement. We have seen that Frank’s disillusionment with the miserable Britain of the inter-war years did not stop him from being a patriot.
In the Popular Front era, the Communist Party repudiated its old philistinism, rhetorically at least. Writers, artists and academics were courted assiduously. The Left Review, the Left Book Club and the People’s Theatre were all symbols of the cultural Popular Front that the party fostered, even as it failed to create a political Popular Front. For EP Thompson, literary and scholarly work was just as important, if not more important, than political agitation. All were part of a single project, and they might intersect in the most interesting and useful ways.