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Post by buffalobill on Nov 6, 2024 13:42:47 GMT
Midway through ‘English Rebels and Revolutionaries’ by Stephen Basdeo. If you are the establishment then you control history to an extent, so in some ways I’m surprised that Watt Tyler’s name didn’t disappear from history. Also the call for universal suffrage dates back a lot further than I realised, and how radical some of the ideas were around the time of the English Civil War.
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Post by redshank on Nov 6, 2024 16:58:11 GMT
When I read Homer and Plato's Republic I had an inward chuckle as I realised things have not changed at all.The same arguments of politics and government.The Satyricon by Petronius is another,it tells of a party given by one of the nouveau riche,all style and a complete lack of class with youngsters having a laugh at the party givers expense.
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Post by brentwoodo on Nov 6, 2024 18:03:48 GMT
I’ve been reading Walter Moer’s ‘Zamonia’ books. They’re bonkers, imagine Lewis Carroll, J K Rowling, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy and Monty Python all rolled into one and on acid and you’re there. Currently on the last one ‘The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books’. All are bonkers crazy but my favourite is the first ‘Captain Bluebeard and his 13 1\2 lives’.
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