wow. this saga took a twist! i so want to love chesterton. have you read his Napolean of Notting Hill? truly about reclaiming the land for the people! haha.
anyway, just a confession, i've pretty much only read your summary and the typed out quotes at the tops of your last few blogs. of course, asking you to summarize and provide context for all the quotes would be an immense amount of work. idk. follow your heart. if you spread these out over smaller posts, it would be more digestible for me.
Ref context - you can get that first hand from some of the editorials and other articles I've selected. They talk about the history of Liberal and Conservative land policy, the history of the land campaign going back to 1909 or going back to the 1880s and the history of land reform thought (Smith, Mill etc). You might have trouble locating these items, amongst all of the clips, but they are there.
What is confusing, I think, are the ups and downs of the land campaign - the Land Values writers were on an emotional rollercoaster, so you don't quite know who's winning and losing. The fact that Land Values was a monthly also scrambles the timeline sometimes. Try to engage with the snips, some of them are truly surprising. Use them to get inside the paradigm.
Cheers for the feedback Max, I appreciate your engagement. Yes, everyting is too long but I hope it stands as raw evidence that the Liberal land campaign of 1909-14 was a much bigger thing than we think. And that leads to many questions. I see this series as an information resource as well as an unfolding narrative. I invite further interpretation. I'll probably do a highlights article - I do not fully engage with each part until I've published the preceding one, so it's all unfolding for me as well as my few loyal readers. I have not read Chesterton, apparently he was a "Distributionist", which sounds Georgist-adjacent.
you could seriously consider writing a book on this subject when you've finished. idk if you can apply to any georgist communities for some funding, but...would be awesome. i do super respect providing source material. looking forward to future posts.
i have only read Chesterton's short fiction works, which i find delightful. would recommend, in this order:
1. Napolean of Notting Hill
2. Man Who Was Thursday
3. Club of Queer Trades (short story, you could start with this, just for a taste)
I will definitely dive into Chesterton. There is a great Punch cartoon depicting Lloyd George as Napoleon. Its in one of the earlier posts. Some of the snips show that the land debate was very much part of public life, numerous authors express views on poverty and unemployment. And one of the surprising things that strikes one, right from April 1909, was just how often the name Henry George comes up. The land movement he started in the UK came to this enormous peak, lead by David Lloyd George, an early member of that land movement.
wow. this saga took a twist! i so want to love chesterton. have you read his Napolean of Notting Hill? truly about reclaiming the land for the people! haha.
anyway, just a confession, i've pretty much only read your summary and the typed out quotes at the tops of your last few blogs. of course, asking you to summarize and provide context for all the quotes would be an immense amount of work. idk. follow your heart. if you spread these out over smaller posts, it would be more digestible for me.
Ref context - you can get that first hand from some of the editorials and other articles I've selected. They talk about the history of Liberal and Conservative land policy, the history of the land campaign going back to 1909 or going back to the 1880s and the history of land reform thought (Smith, Mill etc). You might have trouble locating these items, amongst all of the clips, but they are there.
What is confusing, I think, are the ups and downs of the land campaign - the Land Values writers were on an emotional rollercoaster, so you don't quite know who's winning and losing. The fact that Land Values was a monthly also scrambles the timeline sometimes. Try to engage with the snips, some of them are truly surprising. Use them to get inside the paradigm.
Cheers for the feedback Max, I appreciate your engagement. Yes, everyting is too long but I hope it stands as raw evidence that the Liberal land campaign of 1909-14 was a much bigger thing than we think. And that leads to many questions. I see this series as an information resource as well as an unfolding narrative. I invite further interpretation. I'll probably do a highlights article - I do not fully engage with each part until I've published the preceding one, so it's all unfolding for me as well as my few loyal readers. I have not read Chesterton, apparently he was a "Distributionist", which sounds Georgist-adjacent.
you could seriously consider writing a book on this subject when you've finished. idk if you can apply to any georgist communities for some funding, but...would be awesome. i do super respect providing source material. looking forward to future posts.
i have only read Chesterton's short fiction works, which i find delightful. would recommend, in this order:
1. Napolean of Notting Hill
2. Man Who Was Thursday
3. Club of Queer Trades (short story, you could start with this, just for a taste)
4. The Ball and The Cross
I will definitely dive into Chesterton. There is a great Punch cartoon depicting Lloyd George as Napoleon. Its in one of the earlier posts. Some of the snips show that the land debate was very much part of public life, numerous authors express views on poverty and unemployment. And one of the surprising things that strikes one, right from April 1909, was just how often the name Henry George comes up. The land movement he started in the UK came to this enormous peak, lead by David Lloyd George, an early member of that land movement.