Kit Kowol

I am an historian of modern Britain with a focus on the intersection between war and politics in the twentieth century.

My first book, Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill and the Second World War was published by Oxford University Press in 2024. It revealed how WWII was as much a "Tory War" as a "People's War" and explored the forgotten Conservative visions for the post-war world developed by right-leaning politicians, thinkers, and journalists during the conflict.

I am currently writing book for Penguin/Allen Lane preliminarily titled Warrior Britain: A Nation in Arms, 1945-1960. This will be a political, cultural, social, and environmental history of British militarism in the Cold War.

I have also written widely on British Conservatism, including the place of Conservatives in the academy.