@airminded I've just written a very short Wikipedia article on Trenchardism ow.ly/eoMbb Feel free to add some of your wisdom!
@mentionthewar Interesting! I do wonder about using "Trenchardism" - it's not a term which is widely used even by specialists.- @mentionthewar Interesting to see his police work in there too - I've often wondered about any connections between that and his RAF building
- @mentionthewar But I wonder if it dilutes "Trenchardism" too much to include things like police crowd control?
- @mentionthewar By which I mean it could tend towards becoming a list of policies he introduced, not clear how it justifies being an -ism?
- @airminded It's very interesting. The documents prove it had a contemporary meaning we had forgotten and I was interested in exploring that
- @airminded Does it make coherent sense as a set of policies? Arguably it's a coherent (if yucky) very right wing ideology.
- @airminded Contemporary newspapers might help clarify what Middle England regarded as 'Trenchardism' in, say, 1934.
- @airminded Bomb the foreigners, menace the colonials, club the unemployed. I can see Norman Tebbit reaching for the "like this" button.
@mentionthewar @Airminded The BNA finds three, for what it's worth http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=trenchardism&exactsearch=true- @generalising @mentionthewar I agree it was "a thing" and warrants further investigation - eg found this Dyson carton: cartoons.ac.uk/record/WDN1111…
- @generalising @mentionthewar I'm still not sure that "Trenchardism" was different to (say) "Churchillism" in a meaningful sense…
- @generalising @mentionthewar It's a question worth asking, for sure, but is Wikipedia the right place to do that?
- @generalising @mentionthewar But still (and again), very interesting! I've often wondered about the connections between Cranwell and Hendon.
- @Airminded @mentionthewar (I broadly agree, by the way. Novel synthesis etc. Perhaps summarise the uses of -ism in the main article?)
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