Comments on: Acquisitions http://airminded.org/2009/05/29/acquisitions-73/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=acquisitions-73 Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:09:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2009/05/29/acquisitions-73/comment-page-1/#comment-106158 Brett Holman Sat, 30 May 2009 06:43:31 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=1861#comment-106158 Thanks! I thought there might be a story there, but you've saved me the effort. Bedford seems to have been a rather idiosyncratic figure; Social Credit, anti-Semitism, pacifism, fascism and birds all crop up in accounts of him. His son described him as 'The loneliest man I ever knew, incapable of giving or receiving love, utterly self-centred and opinionated. He loved birds, animals, peace, monetary reform, the park and religion' (according <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Russell,_12th_Duke_of_Bedford" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia). So it's somehow not surprising to find him hanging around with anarchists too.</a> Thanks! I thought there might be a story there, but you've saved me the effort. Bedford seems to have been a rather idiosyncratic figure; Social Credit, anti-Semitism, pacifism, fascism and birds all crop up in accounts of him. His son described him as 'The loneliest man I ever knew, incapable of giving or receiving love, utterly self-centred and opinionated. He loved birds, animals, peace, monetary reform, the park and religion' (according Wikipedia). So it's somehow not surprising to find him hanging around with anarchists too.

]]> By: Nemo http://airminded.org/2009/05/29/acquisitions-73/comment-page-1/#comment-106151 Nemo Sat, 30 May 2009 00:44:09 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=1861#comment-106151 The Strickland Press, which published the Duke of Bedford pamphlet, was operated by an anarchist named Guy Aldred. I think I read somewhere that Aldred got a lot of grief from some of his comrades for his association with a member of the peerage. I suppose the Duke got a lot of grief as well within his own circles for his association with an anarchist. Aldred was a bit of an unorthodox anarchist, he repeatedly ran for Parliament, usually racking up vote totals in the low hundreds. The Strickland Press was started in 1939 with the money from a bequest to Aldred from a Sir Walter Strickland (who was a baronet, not a knight) who had died the previous year. Aldred had earlier carried on publishing activities on a smaller scale under the imprint Bakunin Press. A picture of the Strickland Press premises (which included a bookstore) in about 1945 is here: http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSS00041 The Strickland Press, which published the Duke of Bedford pamphlet, was operated by an anarchist named Guy Aldred. I think I read somewhere that Aldred got a lot of grief from some of his comrades for his association with a member of the peerage. I suppose the Duke got a lot of grief as well within his own circles for his association with an anarchist. Aldred was a bit of an unorthodox anarchist, he repeatedly ran for Parliament, usually racking up vote totals in the low hundreds. The Strickland Press was started in 1939 with the money from a bequest to Aldred from a Sir Walter Strickland (who was a baronet, not a knight) who had died the previous year. Aldred had earlier carried on publishing activities on a smaller scale under the imprint Bakunin Press.

A picture of the Strickland Press premises (which included a bookstore) in about 1945 is here:

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSS00041

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