Monthly Archives: June 2012

Propaganda – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

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Imagine for a moment that you are an impoverished citizen of ancient Egypt, hopefully hoeing the desert and wondering when it will bloom. Suddenly, a could of dust appears on the horizon which eventually resolves itself a gallop of horses and chariots commanded by heavily armed soldier followed, eventually, by a crocodile of exhausted slaves […]

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Party Labels in Mid-Eighteenth Century England

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Until the late 1950s the Whig interpretation of English history in the eighteenth century prevailed. This was successfully challenged by Lewis Namier, who proposed, based on an analysis of the voting records of MPs from 1760 intake following the accession to the throne of George lll, that the accepted Whig/Tory division of politics did not […]

Lotte and Wytze Hellinga

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As a student at the university of Amsterdam after the Second World War. Lotte found herself stimulated first by the teaching of Herman de la Fontaine Verwey and they by that of the forceful personality of Wytze Hellinga, at that time professor of  Dutch philology at the University. Wytze Hellinga’s teaching was grounded in the […]