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Monthly Archives: December 2010
English education: the roots of its politicisation
When I left school in the mid-sixties the Empire was effectively finished – the final nail in the coffin of imperial feeling was banged in by our entry into the EU in 1972, which alienated the white dominions – and … Continue reading
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English education in saner times
I was born in 1947. Never, perhaps, has England (and Britain) been more of a coherent community. The dramatic recent experience of the Second World War filled the minds of everyone and that shared experience bound together even more tightly … Continue reading
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English state education – a project to culturally cleanse the English
Ask an English child of 2011 about the iconic dates of English history such as Hastings, Blenheim and Waterloo and your chances of getting a correct answer are very small. Quiz them on who was Alfred the Great or ask … Continue reading
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England was wealthy long before the Empire and the Slave Trade
Researchers at Warwick University led by economist Professor Stephen Broadberry have concluded that Mediaeval England, far from being a land of poverty-stricken peasants oppressed by a small aristocratic elite, was a prosperous land with a higher average per capita income … Continue reading
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Evolving English exhibition – ends 3 April 2011
http://www.bl.uk/evolvingenglish/ British Library (Immediately next to St Pancras Station) Entry is free to all the exhibitions mentioned This is an exhibition I can wholeheartedly recommend. The show takes the visitor from the beginnings of English following the Germanic colonisation of … Continue reading
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England and the only bootstrapped Industrial Revolution
Of all the social changes which have occurred in human history, none has been so profound as the process of industrialisation. The two previous great general amendments to human life – farming and urbanisation – pale into insignificance. Before industrialisation, … Continue reading
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England and the Enlightenment
In his book “Enlightenment: Britain and the creation of the modern world”, the historian Roy Porter remarks how peculiar it is “that historians have so little to say about the role of English thinkers in the European Enlightenment as a … Continue reading
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England and the practice of science
England was from the seventeenth century in the vanguard of the rise of science. William Gilbert’s work on magnetism was followed by William Harvey tracing the circulation of the blood, Halley’s work on comets and Robert Hooke’s polymathic span from … Continue reading
England and the concept of science
The development of the concept of what we call science is arguably the most dramatic intellectual event in history, for it utterly changed both the way in which men viewed the world and provided them with the means to mould … Continue reading
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The beginnings of English intellectual history
English intellectual history is a long one. It can reasonably be said to begin in the early eighth century with Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English, which amongst other things firmly establishes the English as a people before England as … Continue reading
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