Today, it is a vibrant print-digital hybrid, and one of the most respected and influential titles in the United Kingdom. It is nothing less than homesickness; it occurs only in sheep pining for their native land. New Statesman began in 1913. Late frosts, hailstorms and lack of sun are of course the unconquerable enemies, but although we may never hope to rival the jewelled, Mantegna-like swags and garland of southerly climates – those lemons, those oranges, those grapes, those apricots, all so rich, heavy, and glowing – we still contrive to make a fair show both with our blossom in the spring and our country-cheeked apples and cherries in the late summer. Even if we refrain from making our own wine, there is a certain satisfaction in heaping a plate with some dark bunches, however tasteless, however watery, of our own growing. In November 1957, the New Statesman carried 'An Open Letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev' by Bertrand Russell in which he implored Americans and Soviets to abandon 'the attempt to spread [your] creed by force of arms'. Correspondents from the post-war period include Hugh Gaitskill, G. B. Shaw and Leonard Woolf. Both sections reveal the behind-the-scenes debate generated by the commissioning and subsequent publication of essays and criticism and show how successive editors, deputy editors and literary editors conducted the magazine's business with a blend of diplomacy and vigour. Any house, however small, can supply such a wall; its owner would be better advised to plant a peach or a nectarine against it than the tangle of Dorothy Perkins or American Pillar under which such walls are usually disguised. The 1950s and early 1960s files include letters generated by the Russell-Khrushchev-Dulles Correspondence. The New Statesman is the leading progressive political and cultural magazine in the United Kingdom. COPIES FOR PRIVATE STUDY: Subject to copyright, conditions imposed by owners and protecting the documents, the Library can supply, at a charge, photocopies, photographs or digital copies. The Editorial Correspondence relates principally to the period 1944-65 with letters classified by topic. You cannot, it appears, buy Highland sheep and bring them to the south of England without their becoming infected with this most inconvenient disease. Prepared by John Farrant, September 2002, with acknowledgement to Neil Parkinson. In what was to be an unprecedented (and publicity-generating) coup for the magazine, the letter drew a lengthy personal response from Khrushchev and, later, one from US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. This website uses cookies to help us give you the best experience when you visit our website. What an example for Queen Elizabeth. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was connected then with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society, such as George Bernard Shaw, who was a founding director.. Today, the magazine is a print-digital hybrid. two distinguished weekly papers is announced. If so, a literary paper which some years ago had a position of renown will soon pass out of memory. Vita Sackville-West is best known for her novels, poetry, lively love life and membership of the Bloomsbury set. In this column, among other things, she chivvies the reader to be more adventurous with their fruit planting, predicts – in a way – the revival of English vineyards. The material is separated into different boxes for each of the editors: principally Kingsley Martin himself, with smaller volumes of material relating to his successors, John Freeman and Paul Johnson. The latter is principally composed of communications between the New Statesman's distinguished literary editors and their contributors, among them many notable authors and commentators in their own right. The letters are principally of interest for the light they shed on the process of commissioning arts features and reviews. In 1930, she and her husband Harold Nicolson bought the Elizabethan manor of Sissinghurst in Kent and she set about rescuing its gardens from ruin. But the amateur's garden will do much better for him than that, if he gives it the chance. Has he discovered the Alpine strawberry, for which he will ungrudgingly pay an exorbitant price when it appears on the menu as Fraises des bois on his Continental holiday? 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