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'British Library adds poet Ted Hughes to slavery dossier for ancestor born 300 years earlier
The British Library has added the poet Ted Hughes to a dossier on links to slavery and colonialism based on the actions of an ancestor more than 300 years before his birth.
Despite the poet having humble origins, curators from the Library's Printed Heritage Collections team have identified Hughes as part of research to find evidence of “connections to slavery, profits from slavery or from colonialism” among the former owners of items.
The offending relative is Nicholas Ferrar, born in 1592, whose family was "deeply involved" with the London Virginia Company set up to establish colonies in North America, the research says.
But his descendant Hughes was not born until 1930, in the West Yorkshire village of Mytholmroyd. His family later moved to Mexborough, a town in South Yorkshire where his father ran a tobacco shop. Hughes ended up at Cambridge on a scholarship'.
The Telegraph (today)
The British Library has added the poet Ted Hughes to a dossier on links to slavery and colonialism based on the actions of an ancestor more than 300 years before his birth.
Despite the poet having humble origins, curators from the Library's Printed Heritage Collections team have identified Hughes as part of research to find evidence of “connections to slavery, profits from slavery or from colonialism” among the former owners of items.
The offending relative is Nicholas Ferrar, born in 1592, whose family was "deeply involved" with the London Virginia Company set up to establish colonies in North America, the research says.
But his descendant Hughes was not born until 1930, in the West Yorkshire village of Mytholmroyd. His family later moved to Mexborough, a town in South Yorkshire where his father ran a tobacco shop. Hughes ended up at Cambridge on a scholarship'.
The Telegraph (today)
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my gast is always ready to be flabbered by you Khandy
light news day so they have to say something
Fonny - but 1962 it must have been Eichmann - my father said - "oh heavens - if any questions are asked about what went on in the prison camps, say ask my father and not us"
all this sins of the fathers stuff
light news day so they have to say something
Fonny - but 1962 it must have been Eichmann - my father said - "oh heavens - if any questions are asked about what went on in the prison camps, say ask my father and not us"
all this sins of the fathers stuff
I find this; not just the removal of objects like statues, but now linking actual people to their family history in some twisted manner in order to besmirch them, chillingly reminiscent of what happened in 1930s Nazi Germany, where not only were Jews hunted down, but anyone also with ancestral Jewish connections.
You may laugh if you wish, but down this road are the gates to the gas chambers.
You may laugh if you wish, but down this road are the gates to the gas chambers.
I meant to add,
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me".
Pastor Martin Niemöller
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me".
Pastor Martin Niemöller
// but anyone also with ancestral Jewish connections.//
witch hunt -
I think I will take the part of the divine Naomi on that one and say that that is in a different category
Deutshe Physik was designed to exclude 'jewish thinking' and yes that wd be Einstein
Hilbert was asked by Goebels - there you see getting rid of the Jews in your dept wasnt so difficult was it
and Hilbert answered - - what department ?
[er Hilbert was a famous maff person see and when he fired all the Jews there wasnt anyone left in the Berlin Dept of Maff]
and as for insulting metaphors
I thought rowans was rather picturesque from a lavatorial point of view....
witch hunt -
I think I will take the part of the divine Naomi on that one and say that that is in a different category
Deutshe Physik was designed to exclude 'jewish thinking' and yes that wd be Einstein
Hilbert was asked by Goebels - there you see getting rid of the Jews in your dept wasnt so difficult was it
and Hilbert answered - - what department ?
[er Hilbert was a famous maff person see and when he fired all the Jews there wasnt anyone left in the Berlin Dept of Maff]
and as for insulting metaphors
I thought rowans was rather picturesque from a lavatorial point of view....
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