#1239 Sophie Scott-Brown - The Radical Fifties: Activist Politics in Cold War Britain
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lops, and today I'm here with a returned guest, Dr. Sophie Scott Brown. She's still a research fellow at the University of St. Andrews, and today we're going to talk about her latest book, The Radical 50s, Activist Politics in Cold War Britain.
So Sophie, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to have you one. Oh, thank you. It's great to be back. So
I mean, last time in our first conversation we talked about the history of European political thought, anarchism, and some other topics. So why did you decide to focus on the 50s in this particular book? Yeah, okay, so in part, the book's a little bit provocative because obviously this idea of the radical 50s doesn't kind of chime or coincide with what most people think of the 1950s. I mean, it's quite Interesting, really, it's a sort of myth universally observed that the 50s was quite a a kind of a dull time for kind of radical politics for several reasons, which I'm sure we're going to get into and unpack, but just to focus for the moment on why why did I choose 1950s.
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