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admin on The Glorious Revolution
Provoked by Adonis, I came across some stuff about the so-called Glorious Revolution. Here are my notes … Read More
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admin on 57 Varieties
I used to have fun describing the Trotskyist sects as the 57 varieties, here’s two things to help understand its schismatic history. Read more … Read More
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admin on Comparative Advantage
Looking for Dennis Healy’s admiration for how Austria came to terms with its loss of Empire and found ‘Like Romans Becoming Italians’: Italy as the Negative Paradigm for British Decline in the Language of the Press and Denis Healey by Ettore Costa, published it seems in 2018. An interesting read, here are my notes. i.e. this is a review of the paper, not an essay on the theory of comparative advantage. Read More
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admin on Another Amethyst?
The Govt send HMS Defender into the Black Sea where it approached or entered Ukraine’s or Russia’s territorial waters and the Russians took some form of warning action using either artillery, naval guns and/or bombs. This is just a provocation. WTF were we doing there? … Read More
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admin on The Cold War, my part in it
Not really, but I was asked the other day. Here are some notes. Read More
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admin on Philately
I need to sell my stamp collection, here are my notes. Read More
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admin on Magna Carta
As part of my English revolution reading, prompted by Arden’s Left Handed Liberty, I took a look at Magna Carta itself, what did it codify/concede? How relevant is it today? Here are my notes. … Read More
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admin on When did Capitalism start?
I have been doing some reading recently on what I considered pre-capitalist history much of which I tried to put in a class struggle context, basically about the coming of the bourgeoisie. I always felt that Capitalism came into being at the end of the 17th century but others challanged this and since I can no longer rely on my schooling, here are some subsequent notes, mainly important dates between 1773 and 1844. … Read More
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admin on Early (English) revolutionary spirit
I am playing a game of inverse “would I lie to you” each weekend. We don’t have so many rules as the TV shows; I was considering doing one on English Revolts, but decided not to; but made some interesting discoveries, which for me reinforces the need for a debate on English History teaching. I was also motivated to discover the truth about the Battle of Deptford Bridge. Here are the links I found, with a little bit of commentry. … Read More
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admin on The Levellers
The Leveller’s and the mutinies. Curious as to whether there’s a battle to propose to Class Wargames, as a result of further thinking beyond my comments here.. It seems there was. Here are my notes. Read More