Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism

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.