While at a used bookstore yesterday I ran into a big collection of these short "Britain in Pictures" books. These books, more than 100 in total, were produced during and shortly after WW2 by the British government as a wartime morale booster, to remind the public of what they were fighting for. Titles range from "British Dramatists" to "Birds of Britain" to "British Clocks and Clockmakers." They were written by some of the country's top writers, academics, and political figures.

Today, of course, they offer revealing and sometimes heartbreaking look at British culture as it was 80 years ago, before it was utterly transformed by migration and told to despise itself and its history.

https://x.com/i/status/2018488723835670590

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830503&forum_id=2\u0026show=week#49643701)