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Millions of Britons want a fresh start and a new life. But they will find it at home, not in Australia

The Observer 31 Dec 2024
In Chris Bush and Richard Hawley’s musical, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, there’s an exchange that has stuck in my mind ... “A proper fresh start ... The historian JGA Pocock, a New Zealander himself, called such white Commonwealth countries “neo-Britains” ... .
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JGA Pocock’s days of rage

New Statesman 10 Feb 2024
It was the summer of 1953, on a small island at the edge of the world, and JGA Pocock was hunting ghosts ... on Sicily following his father, the classicist LG Pocock, as he listened for the voices of the dead ... Pocock has writer’s block.
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JGA Pocock: an ancient among the moderns

New Statesman 15 Dec 2023
For a man who dedicated his career to the study of temporality, John Greville Agard Pocock’s passing at the age of 99 on the 13 December – shortly before the historian was due to celebrate his centenary – seems symbolic.
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Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain

The Irish Times 29 Jul 2023
One is the end of the idea of Greater Britain, first propagated by Charles Dilke in the late 19th century, and romanticised more recently in erudite word-clouds by New Zealander JGA Pocock, a doyen of the history of early modern political thought ... .
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