-
Recent Posts
- Starting to rethink education. June 10, 2020
- Knowledge and education for the future. May 25, 2020
- England’s unexpected exam revolution. May 5, 2020
- Tsitsi Dangarembga’s ‘Nervous Conditions’. May 3, 2020
- Rebecca Solnit on Hope. April 23, 2020
- In praise of lightness – Calvino’s Leggerezza. March 29, 2020
- An A-Z for a world which has to change. March 22, 2020
- Decarbonising education. March 15, 2020
- The mighty pencil November 2, 2019
- Knowledge-rich and skills-rich August 18, 2019
- ‘Unsheltered’ by Barbara Kingsolver August 11, 2019
- ‘The Overstory’ by Richard Powers. March 10, 2019
- Familiale (Jacques Prévert) March 10, 2019
- Fred Jarvis and ‘what the future holds’. January 20, 2019
- The promise of a National Education Service January 13, 2019
Recent Comments
fred6368 on Starting to rethink educa… Eddie Playfair on Starting to rethink educa… Sally on Starting to rethink educa… fred6368 on Starting to rethink educa… Tim Brighouse on Starting to rethink educa… Archives
Categories
Categories
Meta
Tag Archives: James Boswell
Boswell in Corsica.
The Scottish lawyer and writer James Boswell (1740-1795), famous for his Life of Samuel Johnson, was also a great supporter of Pasquale Paoli and Corsican independence. Boswell met enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and Rousseau and was encouraged by Rousseau to … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Corsica, Democracy, enlightenment, Equality, James Boswell, Pasquale Paoli, Samuel Johnson
Leave a comment
Paoli in London
He’s been called the Che Guevara of the 18th century. He was a freedom fighter, a democrat and an intellectual. He was celebrated by Voltaire and Rousseau for producing one of the first republican constitutions of the enlightenment era; one … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History
Tagged constitution, Corsica, Democracy, Dorothy Carrington, George III, James Boswell, Jean Jacques Rousseau, London, Napoleon, Pasquale Paoli, Social contract
Leave a comment
