The Myths that Rule Britain with David Edgerton

Across the West, people now worry about decline. How to restore lost glories? In Britain, this question is not new. But one of the country's leading historians has spent years arguing that it's the wrong question. Puncturing popular illusions from the socialist spirit of 1945 to the chaos of the 1970s, from optimism about AI to the need for more defence spending, David Edgerton guides us through a different map for understanding where we are now and how we got here. 

This is the first in a series of episodes on Britain beyond nationalist understandings. Next up, Jonas Patrick Marvin and Annie Olaloku Teriba discuss Jonas's new book The Breaking of the English Working Class. 

This is episode 4 of postscript, reflecting on the future of the left after the passing of twentieth century assumptions.