Twilight of the Dons

British Intellectuals from World War Two to Thatcherism

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Reception

2026
Times Literary Supplement
Reviewed by Richard Vinen, 22 July
2026
London Review of Books
Reviewed by Susan Pedersen, 24 September

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London Review of Books · 24 September 2026

Keep off the grass

Academic life is full of churn. The world changes; younger scholars are seized by new questions and, as they hare down new paths, challenge their elders’ work or leave them behind. Those elders might read that as the decline of ‘standards’ but it really isn’t; it’s just the decline of their own…

By Susan Pedersen

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Times Literary Supplement · 22 July 2026

Uncloistered

Oxbridge in the postwar world

By Richard Vinen

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About the author

Colin Kidd, born 1964, United Kingdom.

Catalogue record

ISBN: 978-0-691-18876-8

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ISBN: 978-0-691-18876-8
Author: Kidd, Colin, 1964–
Statement: Twilight of the Dons : British Intellectuals from World War Two to Thatcherism / Colin Kidd.

Subjects

United Kingdom

Catalogue data checked 3 October 2026