Luddites

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• Behind you

  
  We're British, Innit — Authority: 100
  My piece on Chumbawamba, the luddites and pantomime is published in the Guardian today. All this talk of panto has made me think about my interview with the now sadly deceased (and, it must be said, mildly gin-scented) John Inman. He was known as the Don of pantomime when he was alive and, seemingly, you had to go ...
  4 days ago

• British history: the losers do some re-writing

  
  We're British, Innit — Authority: 100
  History, as they say, is written by the winners. So, in the industrial revolution that would be the bosses. I have been up in Leeds in the last week to interview the writers and performers in a new play-come-panto about the Luddites : industrial revolutionaries from the working class side of the argument who have ...
  1 week ago

• Yep, its another one of those days.

  
  Fetch me my axe — Authority: 398
  Just call me the Fat Friar.
  2 weeks ago

• A Wakeup Call From My Blog

  
  === The Jet Set — Authority: 507
  "Hey Blog, hows it going?" "Oh, HAI Carina, isnt that what youre calling yourself these days?" "Carina is my name, its what most people call me." "But your handle has been Azúcar for so long, people dont know you by Carina and now it looks affected that youre using your real name." "First of all, props for the proper ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Wakeup Call From My Blog

  
  === The Jet Set — Authority: 507
  "Hey Blog, hows it going?" "Oh, HAI Carina, isnt that what youre calling yourself these days?" "Carina is my name, its what most people call me." "But your handle has been Azúcar for so long, people dont know you by Carina and now it looks affected that youre using your real name." "First of all, props for the proper ...
  3 weeks ago

• Age May Not Weary Them, But Do The Years Condemn The Old To Media Negativity? #Media140

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 726
  Among the doomsayers and Luddites at Sydney’s Media140 conference (see my earlier review here ) this week there were some positive people, some on stage, but more again in the audience. Without the benefit of actually undertaking a study (fact gathering that apparently only heritage media can do according to many ...
  3 weeks ago

• REVIEW: From Waif to Gentleman’s Wife by Julia Justiss

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 141
  Dear Ms. Justiss, You’ve been writing Regency set stories for years now so by now, I’m sure you’re more than familiar with all the conventions, the standard plots, the trope characters, all the things we’re used to seeing in this historical category. Well, I am too so when I come across something different, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Long Live the Luddites

  
  Horse Racing Tips and Horse Racing Results — Authority: 139
  Rock Island, IL Having been called a “Luddite” by a few confused souls who fancy they’ve scored a point when in fact they’ve paid me a very high compliment, and having also been called a “prudish, technophobic, sexist, homophobic, misanthropic and an ahistorical anti-modernist elitist”—this by someone ...
  5 weeks ago

• Benjamin Franklin’s views on Luddites.

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 425
  Our friend Ben was first amused, then intrigued, to see that a reader had come on our blog, Poor Richard’s Almanac, this morning searching for “Benjamin Franklin’s views on Luddites.” The great Doctor Franklin is our hero and blog mentor here at PRA. And we identify ourselves as Luddites. Our friend Ben had ...
  5 weeks ago

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