Also, that 1803 pendant, the chap with the pitchfork - that could be on a Pro-Brexit poster from 2016, blimey...
I've just written something re. Napoleon and in digging, I was looking at British anti-Napoleon propaganda at the time, which was frankly...appalling? I mean, the London newspapers were publishing the most outrageous lies about him - plus, they intercepted his love letters to his wife (who was as increasingly cool and aloof with him as he was passionate and insecure-sounding to her) and the papers just absolutely went to town with them, full-page spreads of mockery. I can understand a lot of that volunteer patriotism: it's because the government portrayed him as someone every Brit could ridicule and hate. Not that Napoloen was great or anything, but- yikes. So easy with the distance of history to forget the power of whipped-up public fervour...
Thanks! And yeah - we saw the power of whipped-up public fervor here on Jan 6. Some things never change and jingoism is endlessly profitable. It's incredibly disheartening.
But maybe one way to fight back is smuggling the truth of history back into the conversation in the form of immensely readable stuff that teaches while it entertains - like, say, your newsletter. It all adds up in the very best of ways.
Diamond Emerald Amethyst Ruby Emerald Sapphire Topaz???? 😭
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That is a delightful logo. :)
Also, that 1803 pendant, the chap with the pitchfork - that could be on a Pro-Brexit poster from 2016, blimey...
I've just written something re. Napoleon and in digging, I was looking at British anti-Napoleon propaganda at the time, which was frankly...appalling? I mean, the London newspapers were publishing the most outrageous lies about him - plus, they intercepted his love letters to his wife (who was as increasingly cool and aloof with him as he was passionate and insecure-sounding to her) and the papers just absolutely went to town with them, full-page spreads of mockery. I can understand a lot of that volunteer patriotism: it's because the government portrayed him as someone every Brit could ridicule and hate. Not that Napoloen was great or anything, but- yikes. So easy with the distance of history to forget the power of whipped-up public fervour...
Thanks! And yeah - we saw the power of whipped-up public fervor here on Jan 6. Some things never change and jingoism is endlessly profitable. It's incredibly disheartening.
It is.
But maybe one way to fight back is smuggling the truth of history back into the conversation in the form of immensely readable stuff that teaches while it entertains - like, say, your newsletter. It all adds up in the very best of ways.
VIVE LA RESISTANCE! 🙂