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Forgotten History

BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine
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Did you know that Killester was a "garden village" purpose built by the British as a model community for World War 1 veterans? It wasn't even the only empire veterans settlement in Ireland, but it was the largest built for British ex-servicemen.

The British prime minister and only Welshman to hold the office, David Lloyd George, started a campaign in 1918 he described as “homes for heroes”. Construction started in 1922.Of course, the War of Independence and the Civil War threw a major molotov cocktail in the works. Dublin Castle had fallen, and the greater part of Ireland wasn't a British subject anymore.

Yet, in a rare act of colonial aftercare, doubtless performed more out of convenience than altruism, the antebellum Brit authorities built the planned accommodation anyway, with the permission of the new Dáil. Dublin was full of damaged and demolished buildings, its economic rhythms chaotic due to the instability of conflict. Hundreds of construction jobs and free gaffs were an unexpected blessing.289 homes were built in Killester Garden Village, forming the Abbeyfield, Middle Third, and Demesne schemes.

Over 2,600 houses were built via sponsorship of the Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust across the new Irish Free State. With a commendable conscientiousness which our current government seems incapable of, the veterans' rents were structured on an affordable “sliding scale” to secure their families lifestyle and encourage them to purchase the gaffs well within their lifetimes.

Mindful of transport requirements, a new bus route (by the hilariously titled Contemptible Omnibus Company) was established. "Contemptible" in this context wasn't an insult but a well-known nickname for soldiers who were already enlisted before conscription. And of course Killester train station, now a Dart station was built. The foresightful planners even went so far as to construct a water tower to guarantee a dedicated supply without putting undue pressure on surrounding neighbourhoods.

In addition to neighbours coming together in the green spaces and shops, the British Legion lodge was the heart of the community. Though the structure is still there, it has been vacant for decades. Thanks to a hard-fought campaign headed by local residents and military veterans, there will be a permanent WW1 Memorial and garden open in August to mark the centenary of Killester and commemorating the Irish Soldiers and Sailors who lived in the ex-servicemen community, along with restoration of the history Royal British Legion hall.

Obviously, the concept of a "Garden Village" had the very literal element of large green area, both communal allotments and big gardens, for growing vegetables to complement the communities diet and social life. This was based on the philosophy of the English urban planner Ebenezer Howard. His vision of islands of low and medium density self-sustained housing in stretches of semi-rural environment is the exact opposite of “modern” Dublin residential planning now.In fact , already high density mini cities like Blanchardstown which are already underserved by civil and social facilities and communications, are being pushed beyond bursting by the irresponsible development of every empty inch in to high-rise, high rent yuppy slums.

Urban nightmares run roughshod over communities when motivated by greed instead of social sustainability, and when you treat locals as numbers instead of neighbours. The vulture fund fodder being constructed in Blanchardstown, without the necessary civic resources to cope with the growth, shows a contempt for the locals. We have much to learn from the “Garden Village” model.

Huge congratulations to the hard-working Killester community, ensuring the often neglected WW1 and WW2 part of our cities history is given the recognition it deserves.To find out how you can get involved and learn more, check outhttps://killestermemorialgarden.com

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It must be remembered that Dee’s ideas, which we have to try to piece together from scanty and scattered evidence, would have been known to contemporaries through personal contact with this man, who was ubiquitous in Elizabethan society and whose library was the rendezvous of intellectuals. And there were many works by Dee passing from hand to hand in manuscript which were never published. In his Discourse Apologetical (1604), Dee gives a list of his writings, many, indeed most, of which are unknown to us but which may have been available to his contemporaries in manuscript. From that list I select the following titles of lost writings by Dee:

Cabala Hebraicae compendiosa tabella, anno 1562.
Reipublicae Britannicae Synopsis, in English, 1565.
De modo Evangelii Iesu Christi publicandi . . . inter infideles, 1581.
The Origins and chiefe points of our auncient British histories.

Through these lost titles, we catch glimpses of Dee studying Cabala, immersed in his ‘British History’ researches, and interested in missionary schemes for publishing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the heathen.

Frances
Yates
The Occult Philosophy
in the Elizabethan Age
 
One example of 'forgotten history' must be the Battle of Bouvines 27th July 1214 . King John of England, the Holy Roman Empire ( corresponding to what is now Germany and Austria), Flanders ( roughly the Flemish speaking part of Belgium ), and other allies were roundly defeated by an army led by Philip Augustus of France.
France consolidated and expanded its strength as a military power and as a centre of learning. And the Papacy had to take note.
King John's defeat at Bouvines helped triggered the crisis that led to the signing of Magna Carta ( which of course is much remembered though the Bouvines connection is somewhat played down. )

https://13thcenturyhistory.blogspot.com/2020/04/battle-of-bouvines-27th-july-1214.html
 
Mr Bleak said:
One example of 'forgotten history' must be the Battle of Bouvines 27th July 1214 . King John of England, the Holy Roman Empire ( corresponding to what is now Germany and Austria), Flanders ( roughly the Flemish speaking part of Belgium ), and other allies were roundly defeated by an army led by Philip Augustus of France.
France consolidated and expanded its strength as a military power and as a centre of learning. And the Papacy had to take note.
King John's defeat at Bouvines helped triggered the crisis that led to the signing of Magna Carta ( which of course is much remembered though the Bouvines connection is somewhat played down. )

https://13thcenturyhistory.blogspot.com/2020/04/battle-of-bouvines-27th-july-1214.html
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From MR blog:

James J. Walsh, The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries. Eccentric, published long ago, not correct, yet full of vitality and insight. So many of the key pieces of the West already were in place by that time. So recommended, this one just has been reissued. How was the Giotto chapel in Padua possible? Parsival? This book gives you a start on those questions.
 
I managed to post about this in a digression on the Princes in the tower thread and @maximus otter suggested that it warranted a posting here.

The Battle of Bossenden Wood Kent 1838. Sometimes called the last battle on British soil. Details at link below.

https://favershamlife.org/the-battle-of-bossenden-wood-1838/

Intersting that a sign of protest was "..a loaf of bread on a pole."
 
Tunn11 said:
I managed to post about this in a digression on the Princes in the tower thread and @maximus otter suggested that it warranted a posting here.

The Battle of Bossenden Wood Kent 1838. Sometimes called the last battle on British soil. Details at link below.

https://favershamlife.org/the-battle-of-bossenden-wood-1838/

Intersting that a sign of protest was "..a loaf of bread on a pole."
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Maybe the loaf of bread mounted on a pole, has a link to the French Revolution. . ?
https://www.history.com/news/bread-french-revolution-marie-antoinette
 
Tunn11 said:
I managed to post about this in a digression on the Princes in the tower thread and @maximus otter suggested that it warranted a posting here.

The Battle of Bossenden Wood Kent 1838. Sometimes called the last battle on British soil. Details at link below.

https://favershamlife.org/the-battle-of-bossenden-wood-1838/

Intersting that a sign of protest was "..a loaf of bread on a pole."
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My estimate is that the action took place here:

Bossenden-final.jpg


https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.0&lat=51.29928&lon=0.99388&layers=168&b=1&o=100

Roughly 51° 18" 01' N, 0° 59" 41'E

maximus otter
 
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Jeanne des Armoises aka Joan of Arc

Alternative theories about Joan of Arc:

'Several impostors claimed to be Joan of Arc after the execution date. The most successful was Jeanne (or Claude) des Armoises. Claude des Armoises married the knight Robert des Armoises and claimed to be Joan of Arc in 1436. She gained the support of Joan of Arc's brothers. She carried on the charade until 1440, gaining gifts and subsidies. One chronicle states, "In this year there came a young girl who said she was the Maid of France and played her role so well that many were duped by her, and especially the greatest nobles."

Some modern authors attempt to revive this claim by asserting that some other victim was substituted for Joan of Arc at the stake. The likelihood of this is extremely thin, since the trial of nullification records sworn testimony from numerous witnesses who were present at the execution and confirmed her identity.

E. Cobham Brewer wrote in his 1870 volume Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:

M. Octave Delepierre has published a pamphlet, called Doute Historique, to deny the tradition that Joan of Arc was burnt at Rouen for sorcery. He cites a document discovered by Father Vignier in the seventeenth century, in the archives of Metz, to prove that she became the wife of Sieur des Armoise, with whom she resided at Metz, and became the mother of a family. Vignier subsequently found in the family muniment-chest the contract of marriage between "Robert des Armoise, knight, and Jeanne D'Arcy, surnamed the Maid of Orleans." In 1740 there were found in the archives of the Maison de Ville (Orléans) records of several payments to certain messengers from Joan to her brother John, bearing the dates 1435, 1436. There is also the entry of a presentation from the council of the city to the Maid, for her services at the siege (dated 1439). M. Delepierre has brought forward a host of other documents to corroborate the same fact, and show that the tale of her martyrdom was invented to throw odium on the English.

The revisionist theory described by Brewer has been criticized on a number of grounds, including the significant number of eyewitnesses to Joan's execution, as well as the fact that Claude des Armoises subsequently confessed before a number of witnesses on multiple occasions to being an impostor.

Graeme Donald also argues that Joan was not executed for witchcraft and that much of the story of Joan of Arc is a myth. He says there are no accounts or portraits of Joan of Arc's victories during her time period, nor is she mentioned as a commander of the French army by Chastellain. He states that the most definitive work of her trial and rehabilitation trial, which are the basis for her story, was created by Jules Quicherat between 1841 and 1849, after he discovered a cache of documents relating to her trial. Quicherat did compile one of the first valid edition of her trial and the rehabilitation trial proceedings, but the existence of the records of Joan's trial and retrial were known before Quicherat collected and collated them. The original sources of the rehabilitation sources have been further verified, edited and amplified by Pierre DuParc's translation published in 1988.'

(Wikipedia)

About Jeanne des Armoises:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_des_Armoises

Claude, the Second Face of Joan of Arc:
http://www.monio.info/2012/04/27/claude-the-second-face-of-joan-of-arc/
 
Reading Under the Volcano (magnificent!). Had to look up a detail. Found this:

Watts is widely praised for extending Swinburne's life and encouraging his enthusiasm for the landscape verse that was amongst the best of his later works. However, Watts has also been castigated for sabotaging the completion of Swinburne's erotic sadomasochistic novel Lesbia Brandon.[5] Even so, he was not able to wean Swinburne of his interest in flagellation.[6]
 
Watts took care of Swinburne in his dotage, by which time the flagellation had mainly given way to the milder joys of bottled Bass and an unaccountable liking for babies! So far as we know, the latter was quite innocent. :dunno:

I have a Heinemann hardback edition of the Collected Works of Algernon Charles S. in which an astonishing amount of the text is replaced by blanks. If you wanted the complete text, you had to fork out for much more expensive editions!

I gather it was his Paganism, as much as his hedonism, which meant his works could not safely be allowed to reach the eyes of the wider public!
 
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Jeanne des Armoises aka Joan of Arc

Alternative theories about Joan of Arc:

'Several impostors claimed to be Joan of Arc after the execution date. The most successful was Jeanne (or Claude) des Armoises. Claude des Armoises married the knight Robert des Armoises and claimed to be Joan of Arc in 1436. She gained the support of Joan of Arc's brothers. She carried on the charade until 1440, gaining gifts and subsidies. One chronicle states, "In this year there came a young girl who said she was the Maid of France and played her role so well that many were duped by her, and especially the greatest nobles."
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I remember when I was a student in the 1980s the university library had a large book titled 'The Secret History of Jeanne d'Arc' , and as far as I recall it stated that Joan was allegedly a member of the French Royal Family. It was more than likely by Mary Milbank Brown. Publication date: 1962 from doing a websearch but I can't be sure. Not able to locate the text on line to double check.
 
Mr Bleak said:
I might need to subscribe
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Yes. archive.org will put up old texts as pdfs, which you can download gratis. It makes you subscribe for access to texts which may be in copyright. They get a lot of flack for hoovering-up material but, in my view, they often err on the side of caution, when it comes to niche, obscure and orphaned works.
 

How pioneering UK photojournalists captured change​

Christabel Pankhurst in a picture by photojournalist Christina Broom

Christabel Pankhurst, in a 1909 portrait by photojournalist Christina Broom

Two of the earliest pioneers of photojournalism, who captured groundbreaking images of street life and political upheaval, are being honoured with blue plaques at their former homes.

Christina Broom, one of Britain’s first female press photographers, recorded the burgeoning suffragette movement in the early 1900s.
John Thomson captured Victorian street characters, such as 'Hookey Alf of Whitechapel' and the 'Mush-Fakers' of Clapham, as well as his travels to Asia.

English Heritage's historian, Rebecca Preston, said both photojournalists were "working at the forefront of photography at a time when it was not the accessible medium that it is now".

John Thomson's image of 'mush-fakers' and ginger-beer sellers, taken in Clapham, London

'Mush-fakers and ginger-beer makers', Clapham,1881


'Hookey Alf of Whitechapel'. 1881

'Hookey Alf of Whitechapel' is pictured on the right, in John Thomson's London street scene

Christina Broom only began to experiment with photography in her forties, using a box camera.

Her life - and contribution to photojournalism - is being honoured with a blue plaque at the house in Munster Road, Fulham, west London, where she lived and worked, alongside her daughter Winifred.

Her pictures, including soldiers setting off to fight in World War One and members of the Royal Family, appeared in what was then a male-dominated newspaper industry.

From the early 1900s, Broom began to sell postcards of her photos from a stall beside Buckingham Palace, showing images of contemporary London, including historic images of the women's suffragette movement.

Broom regularly photographed activists and public demonstrations in support of women's right to vote. Her work included portraits of leading figures such as Christabel Pankhurst, who co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union.

She died in 1939, but her daughter carried on living in the same house in Fulham, which was filled with thousands of her mother's photographs, until her own death in 1973.

Suffragettes on a procession in 1909

Suffragettes in a horseback procession in 1909


A procession by supporters of women's right to vote in London in 1911

A procession by supporters of women's right to vote. in London in 1911


John Thomson, the Scottish-born photographer whose plaque will be place at his home in Effra Road, in Brixton, south London, recorded some of the impoverished characters living on the fringes of late 19th Century society in London.

His photographs include Hookey Alf of Whitechapel, who wore a hook in place of the arm he lost in an industrial accident, and hung around the streets of east London looking for casual labour.

Other memorable images in Thomson's catalogue include the 'mush-fakers' in Clapham, who sold and repaired umbrellas - their colloquial name coming from the mushroom shape of the umbrellas.

His photojournalism, deliberately intended to prick the consciences of the Victorian middle classes, included a poignant picture of a destitute woman in Covent Garden, taken in 1877 and entitled 'The Crawlers'.

'The Crawlers' - Destitute woman, Covent Garden, 1877

Thomson recorded the destitution on London's streets in the late 19th Century


Stall selling shellfish in London, 1877

A stall in London, selling shellfish - captured by John Thomson in 1877

Thomson, who received a royal warrant for his work in 1881, also recorded his travels to Asia, in what was then an innovative mix of photos and text.

He took the first known photographs of the temple of Angkor Wat, in the country known today as Cambodia.

Carrying his bulky camera equipment, Thomson travelled to Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong and China, documenting his trip with photographs of the cultural life around him.

"We are now making history," he said in 1891, heralding the new form of journalism which brought pictures and stories to a new and wider audience.

Thomson's picture from China in 1870

Chinese opera performers, pictured by Thomson in 1870

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9wpy787y1o
 
Floyd said:

How pioneering UK photojournalists captured change​

Christabel Pankhurst in a picture by photojournalist Christina Broom

Christabel Pankhurst, in a 1909 portrait by photojournalist Christina Broom

Two of the earliest pioneers of photojournalism, who captured groundbreaking images of street life and political upheaval, are being honoured with blue plaques at their former homes.

Christina Broom, one of Britain’s first female press photographers, recorded the burgeoning suffragette movement in the early 1900s.
John Thomson captured Victorian street characters, such as 'Hookey Alf of Whitechapel' and the 'Mush-Fakers' of Clapham, as well as his travels to Asia.

English Heritage's historian, Rebecca Preston, said both photojournalists were "working at the forefront of photography at a time when it was not the accessible medium that it is now".

John Thomson's image of 'mush-fakers' and ginger-beer sellers, taken in Clapham, London's image of 'mush-fakers' and ginger-beer sellers, taken in Clapham, London

'Mush-fakers and ginger-beer makers', Clapham,1881


'Hookey Alf of Whitechapel'. 1881'Hookey Alf of Whitechapel'. 1881

'Hookey Alf of Whitechapel' is pictured on the right, in John Thomson's London street scene

Christina Broom only began to experiment with photography in her forties, using a box camera.

Her life - and contribution to photojournalism - is being honoured with a blue plaque at the house in Munster Road, Fulham, west London, where she lived and worked, alongside her daughter Winifred.

Her pictures, including soldiers setting off to fight in World War One and members of the Royal Family, appeared in what was then a male-dominated newspaper industry.

From the early 1900s, Broom began to sell postcards of her photos from a stall beside Buckingham Palace, showing images of contemporary London, including historic images of the women's suffragette movement.

Broom regularly photographed activists and public demonstrations in support of women's right to vote. Her work included portraits of leading figures such as Christabel Pankhurst, who co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union.

She died in 1939, but her daughter carried on living in the same house in Fulham, which was filled with thousands of her mother's photographs, until her own death in 1973.

Suffragettes on a procession in 1909

Suffragettes in a horseback procession in 1909


A procession by supporters of women's right to vote in London in 1911's right to vote in London in 1911

A procession by supporters of women's right to vote. in London in 1911


John Thomson, the Scottish-born photographer whose plaque will be place at his home in Effra Road, in Brixton, south London, recorded some of the impoverished characters living on the fringes of late 19th Century society in London.

His photographs include Hookey Alf of Whitechapel, who wore a hook in place of the arm he lost in an industrial accident, and hung around the streets of east London looking for casual labour.

Other memorable images in Thomson's catalogue include the 'mush-fakers' in Clapham, who sold and repaired umbrellas - their colloquial name coming from the mushroom shape of the umbrellas.

His photojournalism, deliberately intended to prick the consciences of the Victorian middle classes, included a poignant picture of a destitute woman in Covent Garden, taken in 1877 and entitled 'The Crawlers'.

'The Crawlers' - Destitute woman, Covent Garden, 1877'The Crawlers' - Destitute woman, Covent Garden, 1877

Thomson recorded the destitution on London's streets in the late 19th Century


Stall selling shellfish in London, 1877

A stall in London, selling shellfish - captured by John Thomson in 1877

Thomson, who received a royal warrant for his work in 1881, also recorded his travels to Asia, in what was then an innovative mix of photos and text.

He took the first known photographs of the temple of Angkor Wat, in the country known today as Cambodia.

Carrying his bulky camera equipment, Thomson travelled to Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong and China, documenting his trip with photographs of the cultural life around him.

"We are now making history," he said in 1891, heralding the new form of journalism which brought pictures and stories to a new and wider audience.

Thomson's picture from China in 1870's picture from China in 1870

Chinese opera performers, pictured by Thomson in 1870

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9wpy787y1o
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Mush-faker: https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/ycvk5fi

maximus otter
 
In 1997, Barry Moyle, an Elvis impersonator who, in a previous career incarnation, had been chief of police of
the small town of Palmerston, Ontario, was convicted of assaulting his sister, a Marilyn Monroe impersonator.

From:
Mark Bourrie - Flim Flam_ Canada's Greatest Frauds, Scams, and Con Artists-Dundurn (1998)
 
From Facebook:

Martin Heidegger visited France in August 1955 to deliver his lecture “What is Philosophy” at Cerisy-la-Salle, and he also visited Lacan’s country house at Guitrancourt.

Pictured are Heidegger, Kostas Axelos (his interpreter), Lacan, Jean Beaufret (the recipient of Heidegger’s Letter on Humanism), Elfride Heidegger and Sylvia Bataille.

It is not known if Jacques showed the Heideggers his painting L’Origine du monde.

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In this picture I wouldn’t have recognized Lacan nor Heideggers wife.
 
I always thought Heidegger was an Enlightenment philosopher. It's kinda jarring to see photos of him in the Twentieth Century.
 
chanubi said:
I always thought Heidegger was an Enlightenment philosopher.
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His dates, 1889 to 1976, are a bit late for that. His career in the 1930s led to his ban from teaching, in the denazification hearings.

Monty Python, no less, preferred to recall him, in more jolly times, as a "boozy beggar, who could drink you under the table!" :rofl:

According to that useful page, he was the only philosopher in that bibulous 1970 song, who could have sued!
 
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JamesWhitehead said:
His dates, 1889 to 1976, are a bit late for that. His career in the 1930s led to his ban from teaching, in the denazification hearings.

Monty Python, no less, preferred to recall him, in more jolly times, as a "boozy beggar, who could drink you under the table!" :rofl:

According to that useful page, he was the only philosopher in that bibulous 1970 song, who could have sued!
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If we're taking this angle then I heartily invite you to research this last sentence :)

It is not known if Jacques showed the Heideggers his painting L’Origine du monde.
 
Röhl and the other man's wife became involved with each other, Bruni and the husband returned to Hamburg, and Röhl and the wife together went on to the `Fourth International Student Congress' in Prague.

In one of his own books Rühmkorf recounts how some virus caused an epidemic among the delegates, and he found himself in a crowded ward with Algerians, Cubans, Venezuelans, and others of the Third World, all with inflamed throats and fever. In the next bed was an Arab whom the ward called 'Mr Palestine'. He moaned expressively, wailed colourfully, at first on his own behalf, but as he recovered continued to do so on behalf of the 'bitter fate of a whole people'. As throats became able to manage discussions of refugee policies and problems, 'Mr Palestine' became more and more excited and began to drive the Jews into an imaginary sea on the other side of Rühmkorf's bed, and to turn his blanket into a map to show how the campaign was to be conducted. The attack became so violent that Rühmkorf had to defend himself by gripping the Arab's wrists and finally pinning him to the floor, until he was released, not by sympathizers of the Third World, but by hospital staff. Mr Palestine's real name was Yasser Arafat.
That was in August 1956.

From:
Hitler's Children_ The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang - Jillian Becker
Good book!
 
Honour makes a great part of the reward of all honourable professions. In point of pecuniary gain, all things considered, they are generally under-recompensed, as I shall endeavour to shew by and by. Disgrace has the contrary effect. The trade of a butcher is a brutal and an odious business; but it is in most places more profitable than the greater part of common trades. The most detestable of all employments, that of public executioner, is, in proportion to the quantity of work done, better paid than any common trade whatever.

Adam Smith
 
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