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No, Margaret Thatcher didn’t understand Danegeld (but you can!) (opens the original)
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Many people from the mining parts of the United Kingdom regard Margaret Thatcher as a monster. There are a few reasons for that, but here is a biggie:During her time as Prime Minister, she proposed a closure of 20 mining pits, which would put 20,000 people out of work. This triggered a national walkout of 187,000 miners across the country. Thatcher’s government then went on a campaign to cast the striking miners as the villains, with more than 11,000 arrested1.That last pa
You WANTED Bertha to die, Jane Eyre Fan. Are you evil? (opens the original)
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When I read Jane Eyre for the first time, I really enjoyed it. I also reaaally struggled with an aspect of it: Bertha.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="748" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!On9Y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:ste
5 ways to read more, without overcomplicating your life (opens the original)
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Here’s a confession: I get a lot of comments and messages from people telling me I’m reading “wrong”. In order to complete my personal curriculum project here on Marginalia, I basically need to read, on average, a serious book a week for the rest of the year. Which is, I admit, quite a lot.There seem to be a lot of people online telling you one of a few things, when it comes to reading a lot:a) people who read a lot are liars! or they’re just reading porn books1! or they’re not a
What Freud would say about The Dream of the Rood (opens the original)
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When I first cracked open my copy of The Dream of the Rood one night on the London Underground, knowing very little about it other than that it was one of the most important religious poems of the English Early Medieval, I honestly thought I just had a dodgy translation.I went to work that day and printed off another copy, that provided by the wonderful Old English Poetry Project1, and brought it home to annotate.And, uh, politely - what the fuck is going
Self-teaching Oxford’s English Lit degree: 6 months in (opens the original)
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So I was sitting in a work meeting the other day, and we were dealing with a problem.I realised my brain was making these connections, properly thinking, in a way that maybe I’d slowed on doing a few years ago. I realised how good this feels, this stretching of a muscle again, the sharpness of pulling 5 seemingly dissonant points together to make a whole.I don’t describe this experience to brag, but rather to share. I started this newsletter with an article all about how I felt like I was drowni
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