Tag: Richard Drayton
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Phenomenon vs. Icon
July 2019 saw the publication of “Biggar vs Little Britain: God, War, Union, Brexit and Empire in Twenty-First Century Conservative Ideology,” by Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London. In his essay Drayton mounts an attack on what he calls “the Biggar phenomenon”. While Drayton’s essay can be found in Stuart Ward and Astrid Rasch’s…