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Meet the Ancestors
Meet the Ancestors Ed Dutton enjoys a fascinating memoir My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past . . . by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair. Translated by Carolin Sommer. 2015. Hodder and Stoughton. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amon Goeth, Edward Dutton, Jennifer Teege, Schindler's List
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Manifesto for Sad People EDWARD DUTTON
Manifesto for Sad People Edward Dutton Enjoys the Definitive Application of Absurdism Adventures in Stationery: A Journey through Your Pencil Case, James Ward, 2014, Profile Books, Hardback, 280pp. The philosophical school known as Absurdism developed from the belief that life … Continue reading
Religion as Elementary Error, by LESLIE JONES
Religion as Elementary Error, by Leslie Jones In a persuasive passage in Religion and Intelligence, anthropologist Dr Edward Dutton considers the category question[i]. He cites T. Rees’s definition of science, to wit, “thoughtful, sincere research”. As Dutton points out, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Jensen, Edward Dutton, Flynn Effect, Leslie Jones, Religion and Intelligence, Richard Lynn
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Thomas D’Urfey – earthy elitist for an extravagant era EDWARD DUTTON
Thomas D’Urfey – earthy elitist for an extravagant era EDWARD DUTTON rescues a larger-than-life character from undeserved obscurity In an extreme reaction against the Puritanism that preceded it, the English Restoration was characterized by all that the gentlemen of … Continue reading
Class inaction EDWARD DUTTON
Class inaction EDWARD DUTTON finds that societies tend towards social immobility The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility Gregory Clark, Princeton University Press, 2014, hb., 366pp In his ground-breaking 2007 book A Farewell to Alms, … Continue reading
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Tagged class system, Edward Dutton, English surnames, Gregory Clark, heredity, social mobility, social status, The Son Also Rises
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When Catholics were heretics
When Catholics were heretics EDWARD DUTTON remembers the recusants God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England Jessie Childs. 2014. London, The Bodley Head. hb. 443pp. £25 Late Elizabethan England was a particularly bad time and place to be a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglianism, Church of England, Edward Dutton, God's Traitors, Jessie Childs, recusancy, recusants, Vaux family
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Warming shots
Warming shots Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s Future James Delingpole, London Biteback Publishing, 2012, pb., 312pp EDWARD DUTTON reviews a fiery broadside against Greenery The title Watermelons grabs the reader’s interest. … Continue reading
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Tagged Climategate, Edward Dutton, Greens, James Delingpole, manmade global warming
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Right royal retribution
Right royal retribution The King’s Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, London: Abacus Books, 2013, 383pp, pb. EDWARD DUTTON finds he is hooked on an obscure but fascinating chapter in English … Continue reading
20th century tumbrils – the first victims of the Bolsheviks
20th century tumbrils – the first victims of the Bolsheviks EDWARD DUTTON enjoys a rare insight into the melancholy fate of the Russian nobility Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy Douglas Smith, Pan Books, 2013, pb, 464pp., … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolshevism, communism, Douglas Smith, Edward Dutton, Former People, Romanovs, Russian aristocrats, Tsarism
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