Harrowdown Hill
Italy: Sete Edizioni / Lugo Land, 2023.
ISBN: 9788894449181
Condition: Fine
Hardcover
144 pp
28.5 x 23.5 cm
Edition of 500 copies
SIGNED
Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire is the site where the body of Dr David Kelly was discovered in 2003. A public inquiry found that he had died by suicide. From 1991 up until the time of his death, Kelly had been a lead member of the scientific teams tasked by the United Nations with monitoring and removing Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons capability. His death occurred shortly after he was revealed to have been the source of a BBC story that questioned the case the Tony Blair government had made for going to war in Iraq ‘My interest in the Kelly story began in a very simple and straightforward way: from reading contemporary reports I understood what had happened as an example of institutional bullying. The Kelly affair crystallised a political moment for me. It led me to think about the role of the landscape in shaping ideas of nationhood, how images of the land have a powerful emotional pull and how at certain times in our national story that connection can be used to animate troubling responses. Most importantly, I think that the death of David Kelly symbolises a shift in British politics. Jonathan Coe in his novel Number 11 wrote: “this was not an ordinary death, [...] it would have consequences, send ripples of unease and mistrust throughout the country. That Britain would be a different country from now on: unquiet, haunted.”JS. Design and sequence by Filippo Nostri, Item #25493
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