DiscoverAfternoon LightKit Kowol on Chamberlain, Churchill & the British Conservative Party during WW2: "There were other futures available"
Kit Kowol on Chamberlain, Churchill & the British Conservative Party during WW2: "There were other futures available"

Kit Kowol on Chamberlain, Churchill & the British Conservative Party during WW2: "There were other futures available"

Update: 2025-07-29
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How different would Britain have looked if the Conservative Party won the 1945 election?


On this week's Afternoon Light Georgina Downer speaks with Kit Kowol to discuss the grand and unrealised Conservative vision for the post-war world. A fascinating tale of utopianism, factionalism, and historical what-ifs, that serve to highlight how Menzies's vision of Australian liberalism was quite distinct from its British equivalents.


Kit Kowol received his PhD in Politics from Oxford University in 2014. He subsequently taught and researched at Teesside University, Christ Church (University of Oxford), and King's College London, where he was an Early Career Development Fellow in Modern British History. He is the author of Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War. He now lives and works in Brisbane, Australia.


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Kit Kowol on Chamberlain, Churchill & the British Conservative Party during WW2: "There were other futures available"

Kit Kowol on Chamberlain, Churchill & the British Conservative Party during WW2: "There were other futures available"

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