Twilight of the Dons
British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism
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- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
4 August 2026
Summary
The rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectual
After World War II, the academics of Oxford and Cambridge—the dons—formed an unusual kind of university-based, establishment-connected intelligentsia. Unlike intellectuals in other countries, often anti-establishment outsiders, the dons of Oxbridge enjoyed secure and even cosy connections with those in power. In Twilight of the Dons, Colin Kidd examines the golden age of Britain’s Oxf…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691188768 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691188769 |
| Author: | Colin Kidd |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
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“A rich history of Britain’s academic leaders and their fall from grace and power.” * Kirkus Reviews *
About The Author
Colin Kidd
Colin Kidd is the Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. He taught previously at the University of Glasgow and Queen’s University Belfast, and was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1987 to 1994 and again from 2005 to 2019. He is the author of The World of Mr Casaubon: Britain’s Wars of Mythography and other books. He has been a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books, The Guardian and The New Statesman.
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