[3] In 1958 he wrote an account of 1950s British literature, The Angry Decade,[4] at the end of which he remarked that: "In this technologically triumphant age, when the rockets begin to scream up towards the moon but the human mind seems at an even greater distance, anger has a limited use.
[citation needed] The inquest into his death recorded an open verdict, despite having found that it was brought about by an overdose of barbiturates.
[citation needed] The Kenneth Allsop Memorial Trust, a registered charity,[6] was launched in 1973 with an appeal for funds, at first intending to acquire and conserve Eggardon Hill in Dorset.
[7] Instead, in 1976 the trust bought the island of Steep Holm in the Bristol Channel for £10,000, and runs it as a nature reserve.
[8] The Sunday Times instituted a Kenneth Allsop Memorial Essay Competition, which took place annually until 1986.