Cyril Smith didn’t approve of schoolchildren dancing to rock music, says ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Author Archives: Alwyn Turner
Imperial fiction: Dickson McCunn & Co.
ALWYN TURNER on the continuing adventures of John Buchan’s heroes from the Gorbals. Continue reading
Revive 45: February 1974
ALWYN TURNER remembers the music from the days of Harold Wilson’s third election victory. Continue reading
‘A posh lot’: The birth of the SDP
ALWYN TURNER remembers the SDP – ‘the party of the future’, according to Barry from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Black Beauty
ALWYN TURNER on Anna Sewell’s 1877 novel of good horses and bad masters. Continue reading
1989: The roots of Brexit
ALWYN TURNER on how the fall of the Berlin Wall allowed the rise of Euroscepticism in Britain. Continue reading
Album of the week: Clockwork Carousel
ALWYN TURNER listens to a great debut by a bucolic British rock band. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Beetle
ALWYN TURNER reads a Victorian tale of gender-fluid horror. Continue reading
Crisis? What crisis?
ALWYN TURNER on James Callaghan’s little local difficulty in 1979. Continue reading
Revive 45: January 1974
ALWYN TURNER on the music that took us into the 3-day week in January 1974. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: John Silence
ALWYN TURNER has an appointment with Algernon Blackwood’s psychic doctor to discuss a case of reefer madness. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Stalky & Co.
ALWYN TURNER on Kipling’s classic tales of schoolboys and soldiers. Continue reading
