Alwyn W Turner
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A few pieces that are available on the internet (or were last time I looked): Book reviews
The Great British Dream Factory – by Dominic Sandbrook, published in the Daily Telegraph, 9 October 2015
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West 1918-1938 – by Phillip Blom, published in the Daily Telegraph, 25 July 2015
This New Noise: The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC – by Charlotte Higgins, published in the Guardian, 2 July 2015
The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School – by David Turner, published in the Financial Times, 21 March 2015
Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice 1959-62 – by David Kynaston, published in the Daily Telegraph, 22 September 2014
National Service: Conscription in Britain 1945-1963 – by Richard Vinen, published in the Daily Telegraph, 18 August 2014
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile – by Dan Davies, published in the Daily Telegraph, 25 July 2014
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth about the Nordic Miracle – by Michael Booth, published in the Daily Telegraph, 8 February 2014
The Great Indoors: At Home in the Modern British House – by Ben Highmore, published in the Daily Telegraph, 11 January 2014
Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality – by Jonathan Aitken, published in the Daily Telegraph, 2 November 2013
Mod: A Very British Style – by Richard Weight, published in the New Statesman, 7 March 2013
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume One – by Charles Moore, published in BBC History magazine, June 2013
Articles
Things can only get bitter – an extract from my e-book of the same name, published in the New Statesman, 22 March 2012
Why punk deserves to be a British institution – an article about punk's place in the history of dissent, published in the Daily Telegraph, 23 March 2016
How shall we remember them? The amazing story of how the ordinary people defied the elite to honour the fallen – an abridged extract from The Last Post published in the Daily Mail, 8 November 2015
London will always win over the rest of the UK – an essay about London's cultural domination of Britain, published in the Daily Telegraph, 1 March 2014
The decade that shaped today's out-of-touch political class – an article published in the Yorkshire Post, 7 September 2013
Cultural histories – an article published in The Big Issue, 11 September 2013
How the Last Post delivers plaintive message of loss – an article published in the Yorkshire Post, 10 November 2015
Menswear, New Labour and Cool Britannia – The cultural creation myth of Cool Britannia, published in the Guardian's Comment Is Free pages, 23 November 2012
Sergeant Pepper Pots – The changing meaning of the Daleks, published in the New Statesman, 29 August 2012
It's the 1970s Revisited – an article published in the Yorkshire Post, 7 May 2008
Broadcasts
The Last Post – The story of the world's most famous bugle call, BBC Radio 4, broadcast 11 November 2015
Start the Week – Andrew Marr chairs a discussion on 'The Death of Socialism', with Alwyn W Turner, Janet Daley, Tristram Hunt and Martin Rowson, BBC Radio 4, broadcast 2 April 2012
First World War Symbolism: Why poppies? – An appearance on Sky News, 11 November 2014
Tim Haigh Reads Books – An interview with Alwyn W Turner about Terry Nation, 25 May 2011
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