Bright Young Things

<p>Grab a martini, because this week we're traveling back to 1930s London with Bright Young Things! Join us to learn more about 30s cocktail culture, the so-called King of Anatolia, interwar newspaper magnates, American evangelists in the UK, Armistice day poppies, and more!</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Cocktails:<br /> Harry Craddock, Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930 Edition. Full Text Available at https://euvs-vintage-cocktail-books.cld.bz/1930-The-Savoy-Cocktail-Book<br /> International Bartenders' Association, Official Website: <a href= "https://iba-world.com/iba-official-cocktail-list/">https://iba-world.com/iba-official-cocktail-list/</a></p> <p>Lord Beaverbrook:</p> <p>Laura Beers, "Education or Manipulation?: Labour, Democracy, and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain," Journal of British Studies 48, 1 (2009)<br /> Laura Beers, "Punting on the Thames: Electoral Betting in Interwar Britain," Journal of Contemporary History 45, 2 (2010)<br /> Alan Travis, Bound and Gagged: A Secret History of Obscenity in Britain (Profile Books, 2000)<br /> Gary Love, "The Periodical Press and the Intellectual Culture of Conservatism in Interwar Britain," 57 (4) 2014<br /> JM McEwen, "The Press and the Fall of Asquith," The Historical Journal 21, 4 (1978)</p> <p>The King of Anatolia:</p> <p>Patrick J. Kriger, "Six Reasons Why the Ottoman Empire Fell," History https://www.history.com/news/ottoman-empire-fall<br /> "Abdulmejid II" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulmejid_II<br /> M. Sukru Hanoiglu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2008), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7t314.13<br /> Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History (Princeton University Press, 2016), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1q1xrgm.6 .<br /> https://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/mehmedvi.htm</p> <p>Evangelicals in the UK:</p> <p>"History" National Association of Evangelicals https://www.nae.org/about-nae/history/<br /> British Pathe "Kentucky Singers (1930)" YouTube, https://youtu.be/M5lb-4oWc1