No idea whether these Number 10 petitions ever work, but this is a vitally important campaign… Saving Bletchley Park Would we ever have to petition the government to save the Cabinet War Rooms? No, of course not. In terms of British history, Bletchley Park is every bit as important.
Entries Tagged as 'History'
Preserve Auschwitz!
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments · History
Cash crisis threat to Auschwitz (BBC) That’s worrying. I’m amazed that a site of such historical importance could ever find itself in such a precarious financial position… it’s on the UNESCO list of world heritage sites, and Poland is now in the EU, so how can there possibly be a lack of funding? The mind [...]
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History to cherish and history to be ashamed of
January 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Art/Culture, History
It’s 110 years since the Lumière brothers first demonstrated their “moving pictures” to audiences in Paris… that’s a decent-sized period for which film has been available as a method of recording and interpreting social history. Of course, the medium was prohibitively expensive in the early days, so many of the first films were novelty items; [...]
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The Easter break, in pictures
April 14th, 2004 · No Comments · Art/Culture, History, Local, London
Forcing my reluctant brain back into work after the Easter break. Can’t think of much to write about, so here’s a few pictures of what we managed to do over the four-day holiday… FRIDAY Thanks to the 2-for-1 offer currently running in collaboration with National Rail, we headed up to Whitehall to explore the Cabinet [...]
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War begins in the small hours
March 20th, 2003 · No Comments · History, Politics
Well, it’s all started. In the middle of last night, somewhat inevitably, the US launched a small number of cruise missile and bomb strikes against Baghdad. Tony Blair only received two hours’ warning of the attack, which suggests (as did this) that the UK and other allies are little more than PR garnish for Bush’s [...]
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Ypres
March 13th, 2003 · No Comments · History, Travel
Last Friday, four of us went to Belgium for the weekend. Now, Belgium’s always a fine place to visit on account of the fantastic beer culture they have. Add to that the art and architecture of towns such as Bruges, Ghent or Antwerp and… well, it doesn’t really deserve the “boring” tag. In addition to [...]
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Pax Romana – a dissident’s view
February 25th, 2003 · No Comments · History, Language, Politics
The “Pax Romana”, I’ve just learned, ran from about 27BC to 180AD. Given current events and the alleged plans for a “Pax Americana”, it’s interesting to note how Tacitus described the Pax Romana… To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.”
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America, fallacy of WW2 comparisons
February 12th, 2003 · No Comments · History, Politics
Brian Eno talks of how everything that was great about the USA is being eroded by their bunker mentality. (From Time Magazine, quoted by Robert Garvey in the alt.fan.frank-zappa newsgroup) Ben Hammersley, meanwhile, points out the stupidity of those who use World War II as a justification for bombing Iraq.
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