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Tag Archives: society
Good doctoring from 1808
A tale of an eminently practical solution to psychosomatic mental illness from August 1808. They did not call it the Age of Enlightenment for nothing…
Injudicious and erroneous education
1837 -2018; Spot the difference. I tend not to become exercised at the wilder fringes of this debate, but hey, give me a break — the discrimination in this photograph (below), is just wrong. But first, to set the context, … Continue reading
It’s the rich wot gets the pleasure
And the poor knew their place. This is the story from the Bow St Magistrate’s Court in 1862. It’s the tale of a cheapo toff who was embarrassed when a short-changed cabby chased him and shouted at him in the … Continue reading
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Tagged justice in 19th century, London history, social history, society
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Those weren’t the days my friend
For the last act in an operatic tragedy that was real life in the 19th century read this story from March 1888 of a husband, a wife and a business failure. The welfare state was brought into being by stories … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century, Profaze, society, suicide, Why social welfare came about
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Body shaming is not new
A poignant tale from 1798…
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Tagged body shaming, social history, society, Tall people in history
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When science and religious cults collide
For good measure about the ‘climate change causes bad things… look, see it’s flooding, therefore it must be’ debate, and yes I know it’s from Breitbart, but it should give the more rabid and uninformed warmists just a teensy weensy … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Global warming myths, media, religion, science vs religion, society
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At the going down of the sun
World War One has been jogged back into the UK’s collective consciousness once more with the Third Battle of Ypres,aka Passchendaele getting its own Royal Command Performance on British TV. Two thoughts; one pretty much universal and the other pretty … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Squirrell, Bildeston Suffolk, first world war, Fred Squirrell, society, women, World War One
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Have our Romans already departed?
Ah, the Dark Ages. That period in British history after the Romans went away where everything just stopped, or seemingly so. It didn’t of course. The record petered out. The accepted wisdom is that because people built in wood, drank … Continue reading
To set the whole world ‘a-gadding’
You know nothing of progress if you do not know the 19th century. Let us think for a moment about railroads. Before they came, most rural Europeans lived and died within 20 miles of where they were born. Not because … Continue reading
