Cliveden
The books behind the blog
Four novels and a history, each set among the real events of the Second World War.
Appeasement
- History World War Two
- November 3, 2026
- 7 mins
David Lowther explores appeasement in 1930s Britain, Neville Chamberlain, the Cliveden set and newsreel censorship, and the history behind The Blue Pencil.
Read the novel: The Blue Pencil
Cliveden and the Seeds of Appeasement
- History World War Two
- November 27, 2025
- 7 mins
How a grand Thames-side country house helped shape Britain’s policy of appeasement in the 1930s — and how those events echo through my fiction.
Read the novel: The Blue Pencil