Episode 8: CHESTERTON AROUND THE WORLD SERIES: “Chesterton and England”

Welcome to our new series “Chesterton Around the World.”  For the next 5 episodes, Gloria Garafulich-Grabois, director of the G.K. Chesterton Institute and professor Dermot Quinn, editor of The Chesterton Review will speak about Chesterton and various countries—starting with England, the country of his birth. In later episodes we will explore Chesterton and Ireland, Chesterton and Poland, Chesterton and France and Chesterton and Italy.

We begin with “England,” – the country of his birth, the country he loved and that he extensively wrote about including his very well-known, or perhaps better said, popular book “A short history of England.” As he states in the first paragraph of the Introduction of the book as to why he would write he would write this book, he states: “The answer is that I know just enough to know one thing: that a history from the standpoint of a member of the public has not been written.”