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Bob. Okay, Thank you. Good evening. Everyone.

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Last time I was on it was, Bring that book as a story.

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Wojtek the bear was a true story which adapted into a graphic novel with my wife, and it seemed to go down very well, so I thought i'll tell you a few more animal stories over the past 5

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6, 7 years I've ended up doing not one but 3 books based on true stories about animals of war, one of which was this: one Gustav Debris hold that up a bit higher. Bob I don't think we could

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quite see that and hold it in front of you our back.

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Get items is a exciting that which is like everybody is. We'll make sure you've got the names of those books afterwards alongside the recording right?

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So. Yes, this is true story about a pigeon on d-day, and it was commissioned by the d-day Story Museum reports, and I was working on that in 2,019.

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And there was even, I think. Can you see that they even just a cuddly to to go with the book?

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So it was a book for children, that one, and going slightly further back was another book.

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Did about a cat that was found by a soldier from the Manchester regiment on the very first day of the battle of the Somme.

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And as it's international cat week we all cat day was it the other day we thought we'd make cats the headline act today.

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So we're not third with you I will go into screen share

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So okay. So that was the book I talked about last time the story of we checked about these 2 have done subsequently.

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I thought, that started with just a general look at how animals have been involved.

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It was down the center. it's going all the way back if you go to Hyde Park today.

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There is a monument in one corner of the park to animals who have served and died in the 2 world wars.

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Large numbers of them, and the seals so there's camels and all sorts of things.

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Lamas, I think even in there. so I suppose the animal we most associate with war is, has always been the horse going back way back into antiquity, into the times of all the way back to ancient Egypt, where the battle of

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Kadesh. The Egyptians used cause this to draw their chariots.

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Coming forward a bit further. You know the battle of the Hastings, which was one by the Norman cavalry.

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Defeating the Saxons at the battle of hastings and I suppose that's always been one of the issues about horses.

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Is this? it's infantry against cavalry and that was always dominated.

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Warfare which one is that has the more impact on the battlefield.

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Cavalry tend is always to be rather more glamorous looking.

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You know the regiments or whatever. but the infantry could often come out on top more often than not.

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So the battle of Cressy, the English Bowman defeated the French Knights and the cat.

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Their charges and that I suppose it's been the issue coming forward.

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I mean i've got picture of oliver Cromwell here, with his iron side to played a key role in the defeat of the King in the left, in the battles of Master Moore and Nasby and so

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forth It's always been accepted the infantry if they are well drilled, and can keep their formation can always repel cavalry.

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Coverry could seldom win battles on their own.

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But nevertheless, there have been ages where the cavalry have played a key role in in in in this, even a victory, and I suppose the napoleonic wars were the last really of the period where

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cavalry challenges could turn. a battle could actually make a difference on the battlefield.

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No, that the Royal Scott's Grays achieved anything like that of the battle of Waterloo.

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They managed to overcome some French artillery, and then almost entirely wiped out by a countercharge by the French cavalry.

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But I think there was a realization that infantry, increasingly with a more important element of any army, and the proportion of infantry to cavalry, the tends to sort of move more in effect favor of

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infantry coming forward a little bit nearer to the back.

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Say the charge at Bala Clava. The charge of the Light Brigade just shows how increasingly cavalry were playing.

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A more peripheral role in the battle, their role increasingly one of reconnoitering.

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And so for scouting

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So coming back to the napoleonic world i've always been fascinated by this portrait.

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By Jacques livid, showing the Napoleon crossing the same, burnt some Bernoulli past.

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Napoleon had recently come back from Egypt.

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His failed campaign there the time when France was losing a lot of the Territories that they've blown during the Revolutionary

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He leads a coup to become first console, and it immediately goes to war to try to restore some of the territories that have been lost in Northern.

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Italy, and he does this by crossing the outs to come down behind the Austrian armies.

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And ultimately wins the battle of Marango and restore some French control of Northern Italy.

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So Jack Louie Devi painted this fine acquaintance, questioning portrait of him, apparently crossing the Alps.

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I always found it interesting that a laser painter Paul della Rosh, who was very much a disciple of Jacqueline David, and if you're not familiar with him as an artist, if you've

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been to the National Gallery. There's that painting of the execution of Lady Jane Grey that is Della Rosh and Della Rosh takes a slightly different approach.

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To Napoleon. He shows him instead, mounted on a mule, which is what he would have been to cross.

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See out something That Delaware has shown some cavalry behind. But in fact, the French army couldn't take horses.

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They had to drag their cannons, and no none of the cavalry could come. and so it's a it's a rather different, more truthful portrait, and it shows how horses are not the only equines

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that have served in war and mules had an importance out of all significance in things like that.

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The Peninsula one in particular. So if we come into the twentieth century yes, you still had the occasional cavalry charge in the early days of the first World War.

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But this soon changed as trench welfare, and very much a stalemate changed. The battlefield, and cavalry were constantly just in reserve for this great breakthrough that would occur but never did until 21,009

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118, and even then cavalry played only a minor role.

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And so suppose it's, horses still had an incredible role to play, as she could see. the British army alone used well over a 1 million horses as well, are other acquaint animals.

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Mules and donkeys all sorts it's interesting.

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That picture on the left. There you can see some motorized transport in the in the background, but it's the mules struggling through them.

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The the the mud of passion down. so horses retained an incredible importance in the world.

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Wars, even though we were moving into a mechanized day, and of course, being British, we have sympathized with these these poor animals.

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The Blue Cross at the been set up in 1,900, and really came into its own during the war.

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Where, you see, there are various appeals to save animals.

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Horses in particular, suffered in the war i'm not sure about the countries, but quite so dedicated to the care of their animals.

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So as we come towards the Second World war mechanization has become ever greater, and I finally, it is old to that.

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The army that we consider the who created mechanized warfare the German Vermont actually largely use horses they just simply couldn't equip all their infantry divisions with motorized

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vehicles, and so they They remained committed to using horses.

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The Panzer divisions, which were fully motorized, accounted for only maybe 25% of the total wemark.

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So the information divisions relied heavily on losses, and you can see throughout the war, even rising up to 1 point, 1 million total of 2 point, 7 5 million horses.

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Even in the final stages, I mean, you can see how the German army must have struggled fighting against the the the allied powers that were by now entirely recognized.

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Their infantry divisions were often left struggling

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So the 2 world was also increasing use of other animals in the first world.

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Why, certainly. yeah, that was the camel call came to be in fighting in Egypt and Palestine against the text.

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I don't know how successful they were and dogs have always had a role in war.

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You could have found this. This is a Belgian machine gun team, and their machine guns will hold a lot by dogs

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And dogs. We used to carry messages let's see a brave dog.

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There pounding back, deliver a message to bring down our artillery.

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They are also used to find wounded soldiers and you can See, they're carry medical aid and .

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We won't even we're in a gas mask so they had multiple roles, huge numbers of dogs with work brought into the army slightly darker use of dogs by the red army.

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They would use dogs. You could see the dog on the left, so they the dog, would be carrying a a amount of explosives, and that lever on the top.

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They were trained to run underneath tanks, and the moment the the lever was knocked down the dog would blow up and hopefully blow the tang up

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And this they use quite a lot of dogs to do this training them up.

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Okay, I don't think I couldn't see the British army ever doing anything like this?

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It's something curiously Russian about this these poor dogs

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And a cool pigeon. Now pigeons really came into their own.

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In in both world wars, particularly the first World war. basically carry a pigeons message.

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Messenger pigeons that could be trained to bring that messages so units front will have pigeons with them.

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That would be brought later. it would release them. They fly back to their base, and then messages could be telephoned on.

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From there. I never even used to do a real photography There's a fine pigeon there with his camera popl up with that one over the thoughts trying to get a decent phone photographs, but they were used

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and of course, as pigeons became more more used, much more widespread.

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It meant the opposition will increasingly start to use falcons and hawks to bring them down.

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So you've got this curious aerial warfare going on quite separate to planes, and so forth. Both sides tries to bring down the other sides.

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Pigeons. how you tell which is a friend or or a foe pigeon I don't know.

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So. Yes, this is how I came to produce this particular. As I say, this was the commissioned by the

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The d-day Story Museum in Portsmouth.

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Very, very fine museum. I was very impressed by it when I got finally to visit it.

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I think it. it compares very well to the d-day museums you find dotted all over Normandy.

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I thought it was far better the way the story it told so it's a children's book.

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So the Wide Age range and the words were written by a poet and writer steep to say, working with a number of local children.

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So it's a curious poem that runs through the story, and I I was given sort of can't blanche to illustrate the poem.

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I feel best so. Gustav was one of a quarter of 1 million pigeons in listed by Britain in World War 2.

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In his case. he went into the Raf. he was on raf Pigeon done the.

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They gave him Raf roundles, and you can see I mean, this is our created the same where he comes into the Raf.

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And so on to his. His leg is a little name tag and a little canister.

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I would have that for the duration of the war, and in that kind of St. little messages could be could be placed, and he saw quite a bit of active service in 1,943.

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He was actually parachuted into Belgium, where he was then used by Belgium resistance.

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I don't know how they coordinated this but yeah, you see his little parachute bringing him down, and he brought back messages from it.

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Belgian resistance to London, says Quo, quite extensively used, I mean, you know.

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Suppose a lot safer. Again the Germans were aware that this was going on, and they are corks, and so forth stationed, and they would be looking out for pigeons crossing, trying attempting to cross the Channel very really came into his own was on d-day. He was allocated to a

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royalist journalist not to give Taylor and so he was on board one of the ships that form part of the Armada, crossing over 2 to France.

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The There was a radio throughout, and in particular with the press they couldn't be sort of telephone in or sending messages back to London.

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And so this is where they begin. carrier pigeons and they're there quite a few.

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They about 20, I think, in total to to send messages back, and the first one to be released.

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Once. the press has been told that the the landings have begun and the initial land in seem to be okay.

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And then they said anything about the problems on Omaha Beach necessarily.

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But So Montcue Taylor took out good stuff and put a message inside.

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Yes, Dede has begun. We have landed troops in Northern France.

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He was then released, and he made his way back to his home. Raf.

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On the island, which is no far from Portsmouth, just outside Portsmouth, and Harry F.

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Base various sort of fighters, typhones, and spitfires are taken off from sort of round or around the clock.

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So he did the 150 miles in just 5 h and 16 min, and it's it's sort of you know.

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You have to recall. I mean pigeons, I mean, I get lots of wood pigeons in my garden, and they just need to be fat things waddling around.

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But they have an incredible endurance to get a fly huge distances. i'm sorry he brought word back and within by the evening the message was in the newspapers the evening newspapers

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So as a result they decided to present him, and another pitching called Paddy, who had also been released with the Dick in medal.

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This had come into being in 1943 it was a medal specifically for animals who had served in the war, and you could.

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There's this is a still from a piece of film showing the award ceremony, where Mrs.

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Alexander worked for the First Lord of the Admiralty, presented the pigeons with their medals.

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I can recommend this. I mean, you can Google if you Google good stuff to pigeon you, this will come up.

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You know, recommend it. it's like something out of monty python.

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It is so bizarre, and you can see on the left, is it was Sergeant Harry Hol season.

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You got Corporal Stripes on there. But he was a Gustav minder.

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Some confusion over what happened to to Gustav.

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Eventually there was one story that he was troubled on and died, but I didn't know if that was true. that seems to be some to bad date.

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Debate over that. So this thing the the dickin medal yeah. it's been warded retrospectively.

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It was decided to reward it to an animal from the First World War, just to mark that.

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And so this horse was the one given that i'm not quite sure what he did.

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But yeah, so it's it's been awarded ever since, to various animals

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It brings us to our main act. Cats which you might not think would be animals.

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You would associate with war. But I suppose in particular, in the First World War they came into their own here, actually, half a 1 million cats were conscripted it just into the British army alone, and sent out to the trenches

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to try to keep down vice and rats, which, obviously with static warfare and been in the trenches, were a constant plague.

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So cats, and to some extent dogs as Well, were also used extensively to try and keep the rodents at bay.

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And there's one such cat looking very preamed and yeah sorry sure of himself.

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I'm i'm would imagine the am that they were not just seen as working animals.

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That the soldiers would have that's quite a lot of affection for these these creatures that were living with next one.

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Certainly is being stroked and looked after, and certainly cats turn up in.

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Gar garris love, Hassex, the good soldier Spike, where at 1 point he starts talking about how the the Austro-hungarian army also reintroduced the rank of cat into the into the army, and

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like himself, has some some dealings with cats during the book. So i'm just gonna stop the share for a second

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Yeah, just talk about how this particular book some cat came into being.

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It goes back I I. Several years earlier I had been traveling in France, and I was in the town of Alva.

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See this, but It's disappearing but it's a it's a German helmet, which I found in a shop in the town of Albert Albert is by the song and It must have been the most fault over

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town in France. It changed down several times across the war before eventually being captured.

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Recaptured in 1980 by by the British, actually Australians at recaptured.

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It, and I thought this helmet and I was I wanted to try and do a story based around it, and I just just put it one side.

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I thought, Yeah, it'd be nice try and use that as a sort of inspiration for a story to illustrate, and couple years went by, and as we approached 2,014, I was became aware that a lot of primary schools in

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particular, were getting very interested in the centenary of the First World War.

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So with a friend. Andy, Messer, we decided to put together an activity day.

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Just so really bring home what the First World War was all about.

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And so yeah, we acquired uniforms. I became the officer.

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He was my sergeant Major, and we used to go into primary schools and all over the place.

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Actually and recruit the children into a Powers battalion.

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We do all sorts of training with them. and then we used to build this trench out of boxes and all sorts of things with fo barb wire and get them to go over the top basically

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But across the dead we needed to sort of vary it the bit, and I decided to try to tell them a story.

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While I was giving some extra research on the battle, of the song i'd come across this story about a kitten that was found by a Soldier in the Museum regiment, So will that be ideal that little will interest the

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children. And so I basically did a load of sketches to Service Powerpoint as a background to the story, and it went down very well.

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It was about 1015 min story we do just before lunchtime, and the children seem to really like it.

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About this the story about this kitten. So it was based on true story.

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Based on the account by Paddy kennedy and soldier in the Manchester regiment, and the only thing I changed was the name of the cat, which wasn't really appropriate.

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It was a black capped kitten that he found and had a name begin with end.

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So I decided to change that, and instead we made our cap.

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The ginger, Tom, and he was going to be called Tommy.

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Aside from that, the story of what Patty Kennedy went through with this kitten that became a cat grew up to be a cat is truthful. But I decided to take the story backwards.

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How did this kitten end up in the German frontline trenches?

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And so had to invent this tree story of it German soldier that finds him.

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So that's the background to it. It It was never published It's never been published.

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This book I just printed a load of copies and I used to just leave a copy with the school with when we were in a particular school, so it's not a book that's been published, and the drawer the the illustrations are quite rough

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and ready. They are really a lot. Most of them is just penciled, or I did very quickly.

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So

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It is so. Yeah, it was created round about 2,015.

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I think this 2,014

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And I will. Yeah, just very briefly tell you the story.

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So the story starts. We see a German regiment moving towards the front line.

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Adjacent to the the song area now, the Germans at this point. We're now 2 years into the war.

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It's been a war of stalemates since the autumn of 1,914, and the Germans are aware that the British army has been building up in strength in northern the northern part of the front line

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in France and Belgium, and that a major offensive is about is due.

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So they were bringing in reserves. The Germans themselves had largely decided to concentrate their efforts at trying to win the war in the East, and so they were fighting much more of a defensive war on the western front.

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Apart from the battle of done so as part of this unit moving up to the front, I decided to create this character Auto, who made the carpenter, and he came from Silesia and like all Germans Germany young man

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did his national service, and so, when the war broke out, he was recorded to his regiment the 20 Third Infantry Regiment,

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Shortly after the outbreak of war, Now this then became part of the German twelfth Division, and was serving.

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It's an actual unit serving on the southernmost part of where the British offensive on the song was going to be launched. I'm.

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Not sort of quite reasonable. the ability to somewhere in the French village, this, or basically sleeping in the barn and at the back of the barn he suddenly finds, comes across the cat that's just had a litter of kittens

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and he decides to adopt one so we've seen how cats we could see in is quite useful at the front line.

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So if they're going to be going into the frontline trenches, why don't they take their own cat with them?

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And so they adopt this kitten, and he goes into the front line.

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But he is still just a kitten and you could maybe see that he's some kind of company, mascot as well a unit mascot.

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Yeah, So for the few weeks while they're there before the offensive starts.

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They live a fairly normal life and there's a sort of fairly typical German trench that German trends were much more sophisticated than the British and French trenches.

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They decided that we're on the defensive and so they went to great lengths to make them as strong as possible.

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Something the British weren't aware of so certainly when the British begin with this enormous bomb bombardment nearly over a week before the actual attack, and the Germans head towards their bunkers.

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Now these bunkers, as I say, the British weren't aware of how deep the Germans have built these bunkers, and it also built, and with reinforced concrete, the British are pounding away with their

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artillery for day upon day thinking. Oh, we'd have blown the German frontline to bits. in fact, they had comparatively little impact.

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Most of these German bunkers survived in time. A few finally gave out.

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Mostly they they survived, Nevertheless, it probably was quite a traumatic time spent under this incredible bombardment that was coming down where they couldn't really get out very easily to go and get fresh provisions, and then finally on the

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first of July. The bombardment ends and the Germans now know that the British are going to be coming.

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They're going to be leaving their trenches to come into the attack.

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And so the Germans, and immediately head up to their trenches.

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And so our little kitten is named rudy in my story.

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It's just left behind to nuttle down in this Bunker and the gentleman's head up into what's left of their trenches, which would have been battered to pieces and take up their position and

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make it immediately see the British infantry advancing towards them.

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So this is where my story now switches to become a real real story.

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I mean it's the story of paddy Kennedy, essentially born, 1,890.

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3 his father. They were an Irish family. His father had served in the role in skill in fusel ears, and when he finished service there, the family which moved around quite a lot because they were in barracks that settled in

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Manchester, and he got a clerical Officer's job and a cotton exporter in Manchester.

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Now he He seems about a little bit of a dalliance with the Ira traveling back to Ireland to see from members of his family.

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He seems to have got involved in sort of Republican politics a bit.

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But back in Manchester, when the war breaks out of his friends and colleagues in in these warehouses in Manchester, all flock to the recruiting stations and to to join what become

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the Manchester powers that's free but full 4 battalions were raised in total from the warehousement.

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These these powers were Italians, people for them, a common workplaces, and so forth.

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And they, as they are officially the eighteenth service. battalion, and in the integrated into the Manchester regiment, and become part of this British thirtieth division.

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And so Tidy Kennedy this period of time training.

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And eventually they transfer over to France to go into the front line.

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And so yeah, on the first of July the 20 sixth, 1,916 had Kennedy finds himself going over the top in one of the first waves to go into the attack.

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You the full of account of this he actually shouldn't have been there.

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He actually belonged. Well, he was with was a completely different battalion.

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His battalion was actually in reserve, but a number of them have been designated to bring up mortar shells to the front line to sort of help support the attack.

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So this party that we're bringing up these shells Suddenly one of these shells went off by mistake, and half the party were were killed out or wounded by by the explosion.

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Including the commanding officer. So Patty Kennedy now finds himself in a front-line trench which is rapidly filling up the troops on another unit.

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And here in the surviving mates thing but what do we do if we don't go over the top Now we're going to be assumed by the military police that we're deserted.

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So they decide what the better thing to do is to actually go over the top with the this other unit, and so that's what they did.

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He goes into the attack when he shouldn't have been there, and very soon he finds himself crossing no man's, lad.

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Now I don't know how much you know about the first one world but the overriding thing it the first day of the battle.

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The sum was an absolute total disaster. The darkest day imaginable in the British Army's history.

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And along most of this front line these units stepped out.

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Think in the German trenches have been a obliterated and there would be no opposition to be machine done down.

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And and units were basically, you know, decimated destroyed you know, before they even got anywhere.

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Sometimes they didn't even got beyond their own frontline trench. But Patty Kennedy wouldn't have been aware of this, but because actually, on his part of the front, the attack actually went very well.

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This particular car, the the thirteenth, call the commander there decided he didn't like a lot of the instructions that had been sent about just walking, and not waiting till the guns had finished.

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He had act. They had actually decided to send out troops quickly before the bombardment finished.

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When they did attack they would run they wouldn't just walk. So what happens is the thirtieth division actually has quite a bit success, and then very quickly overrun the German trenches.

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And so this is where I decide. I have to kill off Otto.

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My my German soldier the hand grenade does for him, and he and his helmet.

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Now there's some debate over where the germans had the the metal helmet at this stage.

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Certainly it's introduced around about now and replaced the the pickle harb that the the hat with the the smike on the top.

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But it's thought that the German units on the first day of battle.

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Some probably didn't have either they were wearing basically just that forage caps.

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But anyway, I decided I wanted to get my helmet is one way or the other.

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So Paddy Kennedy with a lot of these other British soldiers. They take possession of the German trenches and he's.

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Looking around, and suddenly he finds a dugout, one of these deep, deep dugouts.

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The British Army Didn't know anything about and you can imagine he peers down into this darkness, and you can think well what's going through his mind.

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Now all British soldiers are going to be aware could it be booby trapped.

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Oh, there's some Germans still down there that that haven't been dealt with yet, but British soldiers are also on the lookout for souvenirs.

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In particular, these pitle harps, these spiked hacks, that the Germans were in the first stages of the war.

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This was the ultimate trophy. If you go, come back with a pitle harb.

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But there might also be something like some snaps down there as well.

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So eventually his curiosity and desire to find the suitable souvenir overcomes any kind of fears he has, and leave anxious down, and in the darkness he has a sound.

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Let me out, and he looks around and you can see there's some kind of table, and he sees a bottle glimpse, and then he sees this little kitten moving around.

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So he grabs both with little kitten and this bottle, and makes his way back up to the surface.

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Define. Yes, he's got a kitten but he's also got a bottle of perfume, which is really useful for frontline soldiers, but they lock about with it. till the office comes along and says, well actually come on we should

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be kind of getting getting ready. So it's a counter-attack, as was so often the case with the British army in both world was any initial success.

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Usually went by the but, by the way, because the British army, the once they achieve something, would stop for a cup of tea rather than pressing, on which the Germans would inevitably do. and so.

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This opportunity really to have broken right through the gentleman lines was lost.

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They just dug in and waited, and the Germans so thank you very much, and soon brought up reinforcements, and were indeed counterattacking the British

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So there we are! paddy kennedy is with a unit that's not his own.

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He's now got a kitten she decides to keep with him feeding.

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It is first meal of bully beef, and so little Rudy that had started life in the German, I mean, was now part of the British army, and more over.

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The net was now facing counterattacks a little, little Tommy.

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Now gets shoved into a knapsack. Well, Patty Kennedy, I think for the first time, actually uses his rifle as a shot in anger.

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Eventually the unit t's in is taken out of the front line he's able to make his way back to where he's own unit is still held in reserve, together with little Tommy Anything's right well i've got to

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find a more of a home for him. So he takes him to the cooks and they say, Well, okay, yeah, we'll keep him here.

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He might be useful when he grows up keeping the mice, and so forth.

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Down away from the food, but he this bond is there he's still very much his little cat.

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But he identifies with the battle of The song drags on for several weeks. Paddy Kennedy's unit suffers a appallingly.

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In a later episode they suffer a huge numbers of casualties in one of the subsequent attacks.

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Whether his own is nearly wiped out, and by March 1719, 17.

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Paddy Kennedy is one of only 3 of his original company to be left still serving, whereas have been killed or taken prisoner or invalid it out of the army 3 out of probably 80 to 100 or so Tommy

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is now grown up into a into a proper cat, and the 3 of them get together sometime in March of 1,917, and they come to a decision.

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Well, particularly Paddy I think there's an air of fatalism. They they, they think Well, we're not gonna we're not gonna see Manchester.

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Well, we might go and believe and that's about it but we're not gonna survive this war.

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We eventually Something's gonna do for us and They're determined that some think should go back to Manchester, and so they decide that Tommy, we'll go to Manchester.

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One of them. rich lord has got some leave coming up and so that's basically what happens.

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Tommy is, is housed in a in a box, and leaves the front line and comes back.

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Comes to Manchester. This French farm Cat that that served in the German army, and then been in the first day of the Battle of the Sun, finally ends up in in Rochdale, where he's looked after I by Mr.

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Mrs. Lord Regg Lords mom, and Dad regulate himself dies, and later on in the war doesn't survive.

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Howdy, Kennedy does. He has a pretty traumatic remainder of the war.

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Part. The latter part of the battle of the song is compelled to be part of a firing squad, and I think this just tips in me.

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Just he can't cope with this you know the he says I I refuse to sort of serve him with a rifle anymore.

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I don't want to kill anyone else. so it becomes a straight up bearer, and he actually wins a medal in one of the subsequent battles and the battle of our era for rescuing

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wounded soldiers that were in low man's land but It It took a huge toll, I mean the way. it's described by the time is demolished in 1,980.

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These are is a wreck. you know it's a physical wreck, and he's a mental wreck.

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By that time, but he's a survivor he came back in one piece, where virtually all of his original company, where are the dead or invalidated?

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But back in Manchester He doesn't forget his Trustee Cat, and he would frequently go out to see Mr.

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And Mrs. Lord, and pay visits so tommy hello I didn't know hopefully would remember him

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That's my final page from the book where he goes out, and he sees Tommy out playing with the young children

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So that's that is the story. Oh, Yeah, a cat that served in the German and the bridge army.

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And I think it shows that, you know. Okay, we animals are basically there, full for a job.

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Delivery messages, killing rats, but clearly you know the soldiers themselves.

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They had an affinity. They they like these animals.

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I think it gave them something some kind of humanity, maybe, that was in danger of being lost in the war.

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So finish with able c cat. Simon The fee line awarded the dicky medal.

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His this on Hms. Amethyst. This was after the Second World War.

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He was a ship's cat, and the amassist got trapped in the Yanksi River.

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When the mouse, the chip during, was overcoming

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The Chinese Government and they've managed to sort of block for time.

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Yeah, the Hms. amethyst it managed to get out in the end. But it was under quite a lot of relentless attack, and I don't know quite what so able seek at Simon did, but he he seems to have

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kept up morale, and on the basis of that day decided to award him.

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The Dick in medal. I could say he was the only one

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So that concludes my run through of of animals that were from pigeons to cats.

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The dogs to horses and mules and also i'll probably finish slightly earlier by

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No, you're fine thank you very much for that ball look it's fascinating story, and I guess there's a real paradox there isn't there you know as a person being a a nation of animal lovers that said

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that so many of these animals into war. the numbers are quite staggering isn't it?

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And yeah, yeah, we're, gonna give metals. I think there was a sentimentality behind it as well, yeah, but they were being ruthlessly exploited, I suppose.

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But yeah, okay, Great? No, let's have a look at what everybody's been saying Got a few comments in here, and I do have a question for you.

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So everybody extends on your questions. no we've got one from Carl, and she was very aware about you know.

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Then numbers of horses and pigeons and dogs, and that were enlisted, but not cats, and she's, asking, presumably the the cuts must have been absolutely deafened.

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By the carnage that was going on around them. and also the presumably the cats, were allowed to breed to you.

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Know. so that was a constant supply. Yeah, I I well yeah I mean I don't think they would have been muted by it muted by that.

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In terms of on the in my cap freaks out.

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If I put the vacuum cleaner on so I don't know what all a couple of rounds from a mortar or a machine going, I just, I assume they just adapted to the life.

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That they found that. Yeah, I suppose most trench life was quiet, you know.

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They's it's like a major offensive was was a was a rarity, really.

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Probably you would find most of the time them, so there would be trend trades.

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Maybe there might be the occasional sort of stunk of mortars, but by a large, I think the frontline trenches would have been quiet if anything.

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But So they would have adapted. But yeah, once a major offensive was going on, yeah, it would get noisy, I suppose.

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Okay, and another good question here from June, loving the illustrations and have to agree.

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She's asking, Have you ever thought about making an animated film with them because they they do have that sort of quality about them.

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I think I do. right. I I had to come to digital technology late in my career, and I don't I've managed to mastur what I need.

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I the to go further into animation I don't know I think I've got too many other little projects.

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I want to do It's a more conventional illustration.

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But yeah, I would have thought in terms of whether any of these stories, funnily enough, Petty Kennedy did appear.

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They did when we were commemorating the First World War.

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There were a series, I think the Bbc. did them focusing on particular soldiers upset, and Paddy Kennedy was one.

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But the but I don't think he when they did that they they didn't include about the kitten.

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They left that bit out. but he was used but otherwise yeah I mean I don't know.

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So I think that there was an animated film done of Gustav.

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The d-day. Yeah. So again, if you if you Google gust up the pigeon there is an animated film.

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It's sort of quite well, it's designified but not in a nice way, and the the d-day museum.

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They hated it. They really hated it, they said they because they obviously they've taken good stuff to their hearts.

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So. But yeah, So if that one has been done with voice, check the bear.

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I would endless rooms there's a feature film in the in the making about boy check, but yet to see anything.

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Hmm: Okay, and question from Margaret. Obviously we we we know what happens, Tommy, he ended up in Manchester.

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Do we know, in a more general sense what happened to the surviving cats at the end of the war?

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All these good good Oh, dear, me I it's like all these animals!

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Once you start scaling back, what do you do with the the artillery courses, the the dogs, the cats, even the pigeons.

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I suppose the pigeons could go back to the handlers that they had, but I actually don't know.

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I don't know what happened to all of them maybe They were brought back, but it's a lot of cats isn't it breeding they're probably all sorts of feral colonies of cats all over the

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place. So that's that's an interesting one to find out that one. Yeah, we're good enough. Okay, right like to look here, we've got quite a few comments from.

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People, so we can never take a look at some of these That's similar like just horses with shot Yeah, I think in war horse. That was what was gonna happen when they were gonna put them shoot them

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Yeah, seem to remember Now, Okay, let's have a Look here, what would we go?

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We've got a few more minutes now let's see what we have Amanda, you've asked about putting the titles in the chat box. work.

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What we will do is actually push up. the details of bob's work and alongside the lecture recording on the members of the website, and probably sometime next week, and once we've heard a chance to put everything together so when Bob i'll

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be in touch with you a bit that tomorrow. no! lots of people saying that you should.

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You should you should publish, publish the book? Yeah. it would be possible.

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I mean, cause I used self-publishing on online site.

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But I didn't bother take you know I mean I just uploaded it so I could just print some copies. but it would be possible, I suppose, to do it that way.

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I could, that then it would be accessible by our Amazon.

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I think, but I don't know I I I need I need to rework it a bit.

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I think it's not really so proper. standard. Yeah, I mean I like I like the pencil drawings. I mean that that's okay, but it's not laid out very well.

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It's they're supposed to be bleeds and they're not.

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You got little white lines or you shouldn't have them so So all part of my learning process Oh, being design these days.

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Yeah, something for the future, then maybe What else we got here?

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Oh, this from Amanda! Did you notice that able C cat?

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Simon seems to have 6 tours seen as lucky by some interesting right.

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That is that is fine, finally observed. You know. what else do we have here?

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Oh, now we have a comment about voice which we took actually.

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No, look at me. Try and find it now. yeah it, said Jillian, saying, There, there is an optional written about him.

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I'm not sure if you would wake up didn't buy a monkunian composer a few years ago, Donald.

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Judge I pointed out when I did the tool you know he's become he's become very much a cult figure.

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So that doesn't surprise me absolutely as I say I walk past that statue of him and Edinburgh.

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Quite a lot. Okay. Oh, no, you're sending questions from Carol.

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Where are elephants? You probably would have had elephants serving with the British army in the Far East.

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In the Second World War, the forgotten Army, the Fourteenth Army, that one of my all served in, I would imagine, because they they used to by the Indians.

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Well, certainly in the past, you know. they can carry, you know, trunks currently and things.

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I would imagine I would have thought they would be used in in the rear areas.

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I don't think I think I think animals, going into war probably i'm sorry. elephants going into a battle probably ended with Hannibal, but maybe not.

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Maybe later was but yeah, so it would be used yeah, we've got a comment from Jane saying elephants were used to replace 3 horses that wasn't interesting and no amanda you're asking

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we are. The statue of Voicemail is an admiral.

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I can tell you that one if you are ever in Princeton Street Gardens west, so that's to the west side of the National Gallery.

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You will find voicemail on the the sort of highest top path closest to Princess Street.

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So that's where you'll find pain vo tech

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Oh, and another comment here from Andrew Circus. elephants were used by the first State Commission in the war.

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Oh, right yeah. there's a I didn't think of elephants camels I knew.

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But interesting that's another one for the research what else do we have here.

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I think that's well, hopefully just about us but here in fact, here's the final one.

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Final comment from Christine. her great grandfather had Liberty Stables in Newcastle that was set up to help officers horses from the Board War be helped back into good health.

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That's popular christine and we have a question here from with when you did activities and schools?

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Did you ever have any conscientious objectors any children that didn't want to role play Now that's a really interesting question.

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Don't recall I know the girls that they pull like a baby wall, like How did the boys you know?

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I mean we were yeah i've never I didn't have any problems with this, because obviously we were we so we're putting like really Enfield rifles in the hands of these children.

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There was never any sense. I think they saw it as his.

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You know the history it's living trying to bring history to life and there wasn't any sense, or we shouldn't be given children guns, play guns, anything like that was it was wasn't done like that at all although

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we would, you know it was. It could be quite a daunting experience.

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We would often, when we sent them over the top it would be dark, and we'd have one machine guns going off and flashing lights, and I think they really they got a little out of it.

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I mean, teachers were constantly saying the writing they got out of the children.

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Subsequently. that was really good. But but it was yeah, it was a no hold bar.

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And what we would do we would give them at the start of the day.

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We were given them an identity, a real living soldiers identity.

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So when they enlisted they had soldier, and we would always put them into a pals battalion associated with the area where the school was.

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So if it was i'll see the show with foresters there there would be an actual powers battalion and at the end of the day we we basically we sent them over the top of the first day of the start

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so, and at the end of the day we would have a scene where they would find out what happened to that.

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Their identity, their soldier that they've been playing what happened to that.

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So did they die, and not really was quite awesome the impact it had on them.

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Then we would do the last post, and so forth. we remember them so we It was a bit of a coming down experience at the end of the day, you know.

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They could get very excited by all. But at the end of the day it really really drove home the level of sacrifice that the young men of their area made, you know, in this in the first world.

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War so, and i'm still looking so i've got another booking.

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This is 's me and I need to go back and do it again.

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We did it last the november and we're going back again.

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It seems that we've become part of the fabric you know. Yeah, Oh, it's november.

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It's honest to stay up we get Bob and andy in again.

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Yeah, Yeah. a little comment that's come in from Shavan, just as you're talking there, and very powerful rule play for kids. absolutely reminds sort of the black outer scene.

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I think everybody remembers that

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That's what we we we have that in mind always that it's like, Okay, we can have a good We can have a fun day, but the end of the day, boy we got up sort of end it.

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With a large dose of reality. Yeah. Okay, Well, Bob, thank you very much for that.

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So really, really interesting story, And I think everybody has enjoyed that.

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Thank you very much. Thank you for having me nice to see so many people here.

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Good afternoon. Good evening. this bye, I feel like 5 is evening.

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But here we are in the between the afternoon and the evening yeah, i'm going to speak to you today.

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About fashion designers in film. and this is a bit of research that I did a bit of a thing I put together as part of some wider research.

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I was doing that on clothes in film, and how clothes in film work.

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And I started thinking, there's quite a few occasions, when fashion designers have got involved in filmmaking for for whatever reason, normally to clothe a particular actor or for a particular project and I started, to think is this is

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this a good method? Does it? Does a does a fashion designer bring what we want as film colors and as film lovers do. They have the skills? or do we need someone that's actually trained in in in the language of cinema, And how

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to how to costume a character, and how you can do things with the characters costume, to tell you things about their their character, about the plot, to tell you things about the about the movie.

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So I thought it would be nice to look at a few sort of a few examples, and you can kind of make your own minds up.

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I can guess as to as to whether these are effective or not, whether they whether they work and whether this whole idea of fashion design, is kind of crossing the road and coming in to work on films is actually a kind of a productive and

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useful thing when we think of fashion. Design is getting involved in film to dress particular particular actors.

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The very first one we normally think of is Audrey Hepburn, and all the dresses that she wore that were designed by Hubert Giovanni in the fiftys and sixtys.

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So as much some non-conformist that's where we're going to start today as well I thought it'd be nice to look at a bit of background of that because it's something that we kind of take for granted

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you see, Hepburn on film and you think that's that burn wearing a gyvanchi dress?

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But how did that come about? Well, it goes back to the first, the first film that she made where she was dressed by Shevant.

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She is a film called Sabrina, which will take a little look at in a second in the Uk.

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It played as Sabrina Fair that was called it's a Billy Wilder movie, and it's from 1,954.

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Now in the film. Her character is a young lady who's just come back to the Us.

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From Paris, and has has a number of fancy Parisian frocks that she wears, and the idea is that she's a no, not a fish out of water.

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But it's a kind of a walker some near more glamorous character than than in this in the world of America that she's brought back this Parisian style when with her so portrait ben said Well, why don't

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I get some, you know, a real fancy Parisian dress that I can wear.

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I will make it realistic so very well, they said, go for it.

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She went off. First of all she went to Balanceyaga. he said he was too busy, and he sent her to Hubert Giovanni. He said he was too busy.

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He said, but you can buy them. you can just buy something from the shop.

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I haven't got times making something but buy something off the peg, and she said, Okay, and she bought at least a couple of dresses that she wears in the in the movie and it's kind of the beginning of a of a of

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a beautiful collaboration Now, officially, and the movie Sabrina, the costumes are by a custom designer called Edith Head, who, if you know 1 one costume designer, is probably the one, you know, probably I think the most

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prolific Oscar, whenever by costume sign it either thread.

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Officially. she she built on the the Chevans, she clothes, and was inspired by them and built other things. and

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That argument, and that disagreement about whose clothes we're actually looking at on the screen. Is it Is Are they actually on cheese, or are they?

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Or are they edit heads reenter obsessions of those you aren't sheet designs and that's gone back and forth?

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No one seems a 100% sure. Both Shimanshi and Edith Head are now long dead, so we'll never know for sure.

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So we'll just say that both deeply involved in clothing this character.

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What I think is really interesting is There's a really useful quote from the time for that from Audrey hebang, she says, and this is after She'd made a number of a number of pictures wearing shepherd she

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she said, Javashi's clothes are the only ones I feel myself in.

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He is more than a designer. He is a creator of personality, and I think this idea that she feels herself in the clothes is really interesting, because and it asks us the question: Do we go to the cinema to see actors? or Do we go to Cinema?

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To see characters. Do we want her to feel herself or Do we want her to feel like the character she's playing in the film?

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And I think this sort of speaks to the time so when you when stars were big stars were bigger than the characters they they played.

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But I think it's it's crucial that the he's dressing.

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He's not necessarily dressing the characters he's dressing Audrey Hatburn.

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Why don't we have a little look at a bit of Sabrina?

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Then better than me better than me, just talking about it that she makes an entrance here.

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I think, which is worth seeing in a Gyvonchi dress, which I did.

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I apparently has been altered to make her look less bony.

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She was very Hepburns, apparently very concerned with how bony she looks, and how how thin she looked.

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And so one of the things that Gibon she did is he cut the clothes around that to to flatter flatter figure.

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So. let me share my screen I don't know what that was, and we'll have a look at this little picture.

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This is slightly quiet. this dvd i'm afraid but you'll you'll get the idea

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What is it, David? Oh, would you like to go and get something gate?

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No, thank you, darling. A drink

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I'm terribly sorry no no it's it's my fault.

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I didn't see you will it wash out Elizabeth. Yes, it isn't bad.

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Well, you'd better go and do it right now, huh?

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Come on, Miss

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Oh, Sabrina!

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You look wonderful. Thank you on a bit late I worry were you afraid i'd forgotten the address.

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It was was my mind. Here we dance right here

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We're leaving there dancing for a minute I mean she's, you know. she's obviously a scene steeler, and she and she yeah, the camera loves her.

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She's one of those people that that that the camera just absolutely loves.

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And that seems works I think it's you know it's important to point out, because she is supposed to be she is supposed to be turning everyone's heads.

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She's supposed to look completely different she's supposed to have that Parisian, a Parisian style that she's that she's brought with her. and she's supposed to radically different to everyone else on screen when we look

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at it now. Looks like Audrey Hatbone, looking like Audrey Hepburn, because we, over the over the following years, get so used to that.

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Look that it that it becomes like watching that watching Hepburn on screen rather than rather than her playing that that particular character, I guess, is there? I guess, as the is the the crucial point we can we've probably got time to

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look at another very quick click from this, because I think this is an interesting

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If we jump to about hair. we look at this scene here that she plays with the with Humphrey Bogart.

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Yes, well have a look at this and we'll talk better afterwards.

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Come to order of the boat, I would like to say at the outset, Chairman is so busy meeting adjourned.

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Have a frozen dachary. I saw an office like this in an old copy of Fortune Magazine.

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At my dentist. I, David, got an office like this, something like this, only larger, larger.

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Oh, yes, instead of a desk, he has a pudding green, please, Sabrina, before my fingers get frostbitten

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Is this the ledge? What ledge? You know the ledge?

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That woman when you almost the ledge Yes, Yes, that's the ledge.

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All right, Humphrey Bogart suddenly looks old doesn't it by comparison.

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It suddenly suddenly send him out. Looks like a young person's game

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I showed you that clip, because I think it might be nice to look at.

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Could this image here an Edith Head drawing? Let me going in and out of the share? Let me share.

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This. This is a small image, but you'll get the idea this is a native head drawing from the time.

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Saying what to have been clearly the dress they had the whole output that she's wearing in that in that scene so part of the story of whether it was as you have on she dress or or something that the Edith had worked up based

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on giovanni's design but it's it's clearly come from you know from from from the man himself.

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Whether she's interpreted or not in fact i've got a whole bunch of other images which I think will be crucial to have a look at.

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Now so we've we've looked at we know where it began.

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Now really we know we know where whether whether they're how their working relationship started.

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If I add a bunch of images here, and share screen you'll get the idea.

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So they went on There he went on to clothe her in 6 more movies through from from 54 to 66.

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So so we've got We've got images from funny face not a particularly good one.

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I hit that's funny face. you can see exactly the same kind of style, exactly the same style as she was she was wearing in the in at the garden party.

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It's you know almost exactly the same look that's love in the afternoon.

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Not a not particularly good. I can find a still from that. That's just that. that's just a frame capture from that.

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The iconic, of course, is brexit stephanie's a little bit of an outlier an outlier in the in the in the in the in the the Heburn Giovanni

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cannon charade getting a little bit more sixties.

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But still kind of very much cut to to fit Audrey herself.

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Paris, when it sizes 64 very similar.

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Look to charade and finishing with how to deal a 1 million Peter at all.

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That's 66. That was the last the last movie that cubbert costumed her in much that love all those films much sell.

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I've order to happen. she is in every single one of those stills. and really, in every single one of those movies she is Audrey.

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Happen we're looking at the the collaboration is a collaboration between actor and costumer rather than someone costuming particular characters.

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I think. There's also. he also designed I mean she must have absolutely loved him, because he also designed her dress that she wore when she collected her Oscar.

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That's a small picture. but there you go and the dress that she got married in as well.

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So. He was a massive, a massive part of that.

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He was costuming her on and off screen I think that's a really crucial crucial part of it, because it shows that what he was doing is providing clothes for her rather than providing clothes.

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It sounds what it means, say it, but rather paranoes for the characters in the film.

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I'm not saying he didn't necessarily read every script. but I think he's working with the the raw material of Audrey happen rather than rather than rather than doing something specifically to the to what

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motor requires so let's leave audio for a bit. that's one example of of a relationship in the way the way these things work.

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I want to compare this to the relationship between Catherine Denver and Eve San Lorraine, which comes around a little few years a few years later on.

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So story with these 2 is Okayatherine Denov was due to meet the Queen in 1,966.

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She was married to David Bailey at the time and David Bailey said, What are you going to wear to meet the Queen?

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He said, Why don't you Why don't you ask Eve salaron to make you something to wear to meet the Queen, which is not a conversation that many married couples need to have But it came up between them so and that

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was her first introduction. Introduction These bits over the word to to Eve Santa Ron, and and what he did.

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So I've got an image of what she wore the queen's not in this image, but some other famous faces are that this is what Eve santa Ron designed for her to meet to make the Queen there

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Julie, Christie, and Sarah address as well, of course all looking great.

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But Catherine Denner of really going I think quite a quite a standout. I've got a bold look there for for for meeting the Queens.

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That was the first thing he designed for and the first thing in example, was for it wasn't for a film like I say it was, for it was for real life.

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It was for ram it's amazing the queen in 66. So then became the start of a kind of professional friendship and a collaboration between the 2, and then the in 67.

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She makes belle dejor with Louis Bunnell and

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She herself suggested Eve Santa Ron to Bunnell, to to call the character she plays in the film Severine.

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Now what he did if santa rosy went away and created an entire sort of wardrobe for her, so that so that in every in every scene she's wearing, she's wearing something designed by him but what I

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think he does that jean-monchi doesn't Doesn't really do?

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Is, I think he. He knows exactly what the character in the film needs and what and what he needs to what he needs to portray, and how he needs to, how he needs to clothe the character to tell us something as as film governors.

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who are Yeah, as literate film goes. But we we look at, we look at what characters wearing.

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We infer things from it. We read certain things. we read things about color, about carts, about opulence or not, about fabrics, about texture, and we read things, and we start to.

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We learn things about character. If a costume designer is clever well, we'll learn something about why they're wearing that particular thing, and then there can be symbolic things as well about buttoned upness or things not fitting property or

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things not quite worn properly. That might tell you something else about that about the character as well.

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And I think he really he really works that really well in in in in Belgium.

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So why don't we start i've got I can show you a couple of clips in this which I think will be quite useful.

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Second. This is the very opening scene of bell to shore.

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It starts with Belgium. The film is about young woman, a young Parisian woman.

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With a husband in in Paris who is bored and decides that her life might be more interesting if if she became a prostitute in the afternoons and sort of does it for thrills, and then gets mixed up in a whole

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world of gangsters and difficulty and it all goes a little bit wrong.

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So it's. got this element of the double life in it, Of course, that gives you all sorts of opportunities to play with costume, and to play with.

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How costume can you know which which severine are we seeing, and maybe suggest moral things about what might be going on, but can also tell us something about who Severine is right from right from the off.

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So we're going to start with this very opening scene the film starts the very long shot through the park in Paris, with nothing modern on display at all. at the very beginning.

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You could think you're looking at a at a period drama, and they're in a horse strong carriage, but we'll start.

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We'll jump in just before we just before we we we we cut to them to them in the in the carriage, having a conversation, and have a look at what? obviously they have a look at what what severines wearing and what the

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film what the film tells you immediately about severine and who she is in the dialogue, and how that's reflected in what she's wearing, because I think it's I think there's there's interesting stuff

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going on, so did I open the click as I did let's go from

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The Dictator disasters Is it them sexual that all that moisture click 12 more, Please me quick.

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It's more seems like to saber effect could afford the other spies.

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Limbaugh put such to pay really that fashion can't you see? about 20 most on earth copper 10.

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The Savior at the last. Could you bit Miss Shelter

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I take, so that's a very short scene in which I think we learn a lot about the character of Severine, and we learn immediately that she's capable of being warm, but also being very cold.

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We learn there's. Probably some sort of marital discord happening there, and it may be to do with her coldness, and what we see is her in a well, she's wearing red for a start which is has been used in countless times in

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cinema as a symbol of both passion and of danger so it's kind of used ironically in that there's passion.

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There's passion that isn't being put to good use at the moment, but it is in there that in itself is dangerous. So the use of red is a cinematic code that I expect in costume that I think is really is really

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important, and eve as he's latched onto that immediately. but this idea of this quite sort of military cut of coat that's all buttoned up.

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Except there's. one or 2 kind of loose buttons, which, of course, none of this happens by by accident.

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I it's kind of symbolic it's symbolic of her closed off Nessa, buttoned upness. But there is a way in There's a there's a psychological way into to her buttoned upness as

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well, and that's all I think in the in the clothes are sort of the sort of quite hard austerity of it.

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But this this this sort of bright and also the bright red in the context of the outdoor, the sort of muted outdoor colors as well.

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I think it's really important. she's like a sort of a beacon.

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We know she's going to be the focus of the film and we know there's going to be passion and danger.

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It's going to be focused around her and like I say we have what's had this element of repression and buttoned up nests, which is kind of key to key to her. character.

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So I think he's doing he's already doing a really good job He's already kind of figuring out What do we?

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What do I need to do? What do we need to to say about this character? What do I need to?

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How ready to present this character on film and that's only you know we're not even 3 min into the into the movie yet.

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I'm. not at a slightly longer clip of this later on. This is the the sort of tipping point for severing.

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This is when she starts to think another way of life might be possible, and we're going to start with this little scene here.

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At a at the tennis club. Look at 2 scenes sort of adjacent to each other here.

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And and look you'll notice it anyway, but look out for the kind of the juxtaposition of what she wears in in each

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Didn't do, Spain barriers on the hotel boulevard, where you're a man of what we're doing. See?

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No, Sam, I that was the layer

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Let me still use all yet stuff the pharmaceutical, the dubious!

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He comes set at myself, honey, was that musical we, Porilosha.

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To Bethmo. Lymos measurated the funki. Savon, Lafoylas, Puddarajo.

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Something crazy at Google. Rodby severe should put back upon it I'm concerned, who survey so look you may see the moon. the Roduisa's pasture to parallel firmly from humanonymous also to

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them the misoccupied with Via kanet. who is your daughter? first in BukU.S.A.? a buffet? I particularly if i'm complete myself, he said, to a year she, an ice the city is all the sooners on the guarded excellence

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of it focus. Give a park, miss. Now yeah cute compulsion.

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It's exactly She wants any shot solve it to nothing that you animal, Jimmy Abukuk pierre fashion.

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I was talking this repellent

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She met him Andis all the city Jonasumi

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So let's leave her there. I don't think i'd need to explain the the costuming choices made there in those 2 scenes, but I like the way they sit in the film up against each other, we have the the the

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innocent almost at a virginal looking submarine at the tennis club that looks like butter would mount their mouth.

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I'm actually has this decision that maybe she's gonna go and see what's what's going on at all through to somewhere, and is back in the sort of military style buttoned up so it's almost in

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disguise almost like a really bad spy and you know into the black and buttoned up and the black hat and the and I was gonna say in glasses, but she's not wearing glasses, but she feels like she should be wearing

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glasses. it's a and it's very much presenting this idea, like the 2, the 2 submarines that the double life and so much of that obviously is going on in the costume. it's a bit blunt But

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it. Really, I think it it really works, and the film is full of little things like that.

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Ideas of you know these these contrasting things that are severing and black as ever in and white this idea of the buttoned upness. it's all there and it's and so it's all coming from

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from from eve santa cruz he did have 4 leaps an Iran in in designing some costumes for film.

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He'd decide some costumes for the 1,963.

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The pink pant at the first paint panther movie Claudia Cardinali's character is wearing Eve Sandra one, and that bade never I don't think dressed the character for the duration.

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Of a of a of of a movie. And he went on.

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After this day, one and the next year, they make it they made a film together, called Lashamard, in which he dresses her again.

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But it's not it's, not as interesting and then she wore his clothes in 4 or 5 other movies kind of going through the seventys and into the eightys, but normally just one item I don't think he dresses her

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for a whole film again. So It's a less enduring relationship.

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Then the Hepburn giovanni relationship but it's, I think it's more so successful in the in the kind of in the the the smaller window in which in which it exists.

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Got some interesting pictures to go alongside this they're they're together slightly later.

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Eve, Santa Ron, and and

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Catherine did have i'm just realize i've accidentally dressed this eve salad on today. it must have been decided to channel him in the velvet jacket quite hard to find pitched them together from this

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era actually. But there's one and a couple of pictures from the Eve Santa Ron Museum, which I think are worth looking at of the of the designs which are put to rather nice actually the interesting thing about the designs

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and we're just you know we'll just look through, and these are just a few of their sketches of a few of the different things she wears in the movie.

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They look slightly younger, I think, on on the page the money dresses for real.

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The interesting thing is, of course, what happened was the next year.

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All these clothes were in workshops in paris because he was a designer.

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They're they're also sold stuff. you could get you know you could go and buy some efsan around in Paris, and and and indeed people did.

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And so the next year everybody was wearing trench coats.

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Everyone was kind of dressing, like like Catherine Denver had A.

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Had a had a massive kind of knock on effect under the contemporary fashion, and to his own to his own safety as well to his own success; and he didn't make shoes at the time.

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So the shoes are by Roger Roger Vivier.

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There in the in the East Animal Museum as well.

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And those are apparently I didn't know but these are on enduring women's.

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Shoe classic and much copied, and and they were designed specifically for this, for this movie.

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So it's a it's a really successful little little moment a collaboration between the between between the 2, and maybe if it doesn't last as long as the like, I say as the as the Mr. Gibonchi and

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and Hepburn collaboration I do I do feel like It's more it's more cinematic.

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There's more going on where you can that you can kind of read, and you can infer things you can understand things, and from what the character is wearing on on the screen.

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So that's a really good successful one we've had we've been in America.

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We've been in France. let's have a look at what's going on in Uk at roughly the same time, because, we had fashions as well.

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Someone in the chat just said Very Mary. quant very interesting that you might say that it's a merry quant that we're about to about to turn right now.

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So well done you've read me like a book so Mary quant young designer of Clouds, that people can actually buy and that in the early sixties, and successful all the way through the sixties.

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She had also been involved in the early sixtys in costuming some individual characters in films.

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Some filmmakers have gone to and said, Can you can you dress?

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Can you dress this one particular character, or can we dress this character in inquant?

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So, of course, some images here. I won't share that one because we're going to look at the one bump. let's look at these. so we've got pictures here.

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Of

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Picture of a Nancy Quan in a song called The Wild Affair, the one of the first 1,963. a movie called The Haunting from the same year, Yeah.

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Same year. 63 very early sixties. look very similar in in in both films, you know.

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Sort of quite, very, very sort of early mod sort of late.

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Beatenk kind of look black tailored very smart.

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And then this image here is a publicity shop for the film, Elfie.

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1,966 in case you didn't notice by looking at it.

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Marc came up, looking very smug as as Alpha.

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The interesting thing about this this publicity show is I saw this publicity shop, and there's Jane Asher on the on the left.

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And wearing a very obvious bit of Mary Guant. That Mary Quant Baton is is is really familiar.

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I thought, Okay, So So jennifer scouted where's quantum? This film?

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How interesting the interesting thing is. She never wears that in the film, although this is a this photo goal. Is that obviously the sort of in character? I think.

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But Jane actually never wears that in the film.

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So she wore it just for the just for the photo.

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Call that in the Mary Gomp was so cool that you that you might wear our clothes just for the publicity shots.

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If not in the actual movie. but I still thought that was worth sharing, because it kind of shows a quant is kind of moving with the moving with the times.

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The really nice bit of mercant we can have A look at is from film Georgie Gal, which is 1966.

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Now, I really like the film Georgia Girl. It seems to be on Tv quite a lot. at the moment.

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One of the one of the free channels seems to be showing it quite often. so you'll probably stumble on it if you watch a lot of daytime Tv movies like I do it's 66 it's almost a

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swing London film, but it's a bit too, early and it's almost a kitchen sink drama, because it and it's sort of black and white and gritty but it's a bit too late.

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It kind of falls it's. a falls into the camp between those 2, those 2 sort of movie genres which is which I think is quite interesting in it of itself.

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So it's about Georgie who is George you would like to be a kind of girl about town. but she's not confident she's not particularly physically beautiful.

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She's a bit clumsy things don't really go her way.

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She's got a flat mate. her flatmate Meredith is is a played by the young charlotte.

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Rambling is beautiful, stylish, tiny, compared to compared to Georgia, and so fits into all the all the sort of mid sixtys factions, much were sort of effortlessly stylish.

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But she's an absolute nightmare and she's a really nasty piece of work, and she never gets her come up.

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It's in the film which really upsets me but Meredith is like the flat mate from hell.

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We side with with Georgie all the way and what's interesting is quant dresses meredith, so it's she's dressing essentially that the bady but she's dressing her to kind of look

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modish. so 66 modish, so that she looks very much sort of of the time. let's have a look at this still clip here, which I think is a really good illustration of how you can use costume to mark

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2 characters about on screen that Meredith is obviously covered in in Mary Quant This scene, and and Georgie very much isn't

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I don't know dust now this

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Okay. yeah. praying Mantis elephant, bloody, marvelous.

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Well, thank you, miss. some hockey parking. Yes, however, just at the moment our book seem to be full of annual imitators.

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But would you be prepared to strip, my dear? Got one or 2 operations?

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Got so much the better. The customers, like them within reason, of course, have to ask money on a number will be in touch. I'll bet you Willie.

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Dirty old slob

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Are you going out? Why, aren't you going with Joshua anyone.

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No, let's go and eat then, but at the first order of dust and all that nonsense i'm leaving you

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Forkins, Residents

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Hello! Oh, hi! I might be

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Okay, I'm not doing anything where then you'll have to Pick me up, Have the tube in about 5 min.

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See you

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Where are you going now? Party nicks for god's sake, Georgie? You don't expect me to have a meal with you. if I can go to a party.

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Do you I didn't mean it like that if you've been the one invited.

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I'd naturally I never am let's go into that again.

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Georgie.

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Okay, if you're gonna be suicidal i'll stay no go, sure sure have a lovely time.

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I think about you and I don't buy cocoa

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To leave Georgia there, washing up socks in the sink.

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But i'm really interesting clothes on film moment that I think because obviously Meredith looks great.

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But she's very contemporary she's very 66.

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The clothes will fit her perfectly, and the choice this juxtaposition to have Georgie dressed in what are essentially man's clothes.

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Sort of decentralizes her makes a film much less much less clamorous.

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But it's It's it's important that what that what merit it's wearing is actually Mary Quant Americans come in and and dress her.

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And there's a nice little coder to this scene actually, if I can find it for you.

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It's just here later on. later on Meredith is let me just get it bang on

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Meredith is pregnant, and has morning sickness.

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Have a look at this scene here. See what you See what you notice

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Not, was again

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Well, no use. you ask me to lend you the money this time because I won't. I don't care if it's old hat, and it's just a middle class taboo and the law needs changing and the population of

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these islands will be doubled by the year 2,000 I won't do it.

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So did you notice hanging up in the background very realistic approach to close our farm?

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There's the spotty meritant dress that she was wearing earlier on. and now she's pregnant she can't wear it, and it's kind of hanging up as a sort of reminder of things things lost but I think it's a very realistic approach

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to clone some that sometimes you will just like leave them places and it's It's you know that that's what should do with it.

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But I like that. I like that as a little little cinematic touch.

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It's kind of slightly out of reach so that's Quant and there's another bit of quant I can show you and it'll lead us back it'll lead us back to Audrey Hepburn if

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you bear with me a second while I honor that a really interesting outlier in the in the body of work of Audrey Hepburn.

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Is this movie? 2 for the road? which is from 2 thirds from 1,967.

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It's Stanley Donan film. i've only got a very small copy of this.

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Unfortunately, it's Dvds not anomorphics that comes out quite small thoughts.

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This is a really interesting film, too, for the road it's a Oj.

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Have been an Albert Finney are married and their marriages on the rocks, and it's it's 1,967.

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When the film is set and it's set in 67. but the whole film is shown through a series of flashbacks, and we very rarely come back to 1,967.

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It's a kind of kind of nested flashback structure, where sometimes a flashback will lead on to us, and only and only marginally. let more recent flashback, and so Scott quite hard to keep track of where you are But

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What Dona does is he uses fashions.

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To kind of illustrate to illustrate where where we are chronologically and it's a really useful way of of breaking breaking the film up.

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It's really nice to see happen of this of this era not wearing chip on, she and wearing something more more contemporary.

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So in this we have Mary, Quant she's one of different points packa Raban, she wears towards the end.

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Hardy amy's there's loads of like mid sixtys kind of what I always think of as like Sunday supplement designers like the kind of stuff that you would see in like the Then new color.

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Sunday supplements about like fashions of the future and it's slightly unwarrable, but you know, within a couple of years there'll be there'll be high street versions.

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All that, and but it's it's right on on this point here, and it's it's fun.

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It makes the film fun. but it also kind of it also kind of reminds you of of where you are chronologically, but it says a couple of other things as well.

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So there's so many clips I could show you the whole film.

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If I felt if we had, because we had like a day to do this.

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But have a look at this this is this is a rare moment in the film where we're back in 1,967, and they're They're sort of bemoaning everything that's that's gone wrong in their life so just look

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at what Audrey have done is wearing in the scene you'd be far better off on your own wouldn't.

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You not again, Joanna. You want to get on. I know Maurice is. wait.

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Let him wait. he's got you on a line only he has to do. Start reeling you in.

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You shut the hell up about Maurice if he won't for the reason you know what would be happy broke broken, happy.

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You want to go back to living in Sally? You hated it.

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I loved you hated it. I hated it I hate being at other people's back and cold as soon as someone back so calls that just resented That's all okay, you run the show you handle it.

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You worry about the house and the flat nanny and Mrs. Rathbone?

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I don't want any of them do I am I the one that wants the mammal sports watches.

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Take your watch? I don't want it I don't want anything?

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Why is it? Whenever you give a woman everything she wants you get so floody minded you don't give me everything I want. You give me everything you want to give me Joanna, your watch. Joanna.

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I love you

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I just think how hot, how hot's that pb so Bbc.

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Suit must be under what substances can you wear a Pbc. So it kind of says something about the characters. it doesn't it, and the scene is about what we've arrived. and we've got all the trappings of everything

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we want but they're but they're not very we don't really want them anymore.

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And I think there's, probably something about a pvc suit that also ticks that box as well, it's that it's sort of desirable and its own weird way.

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But then also sort of completely useless and horrible there's loads of loads of sort of great looks.

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Those are just sort of great clips i'll have to show you some of that.

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Let me show you a slightly longer one. where we get to see

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A bit of packer rabbin now pakistan at the time, and this is what I mean by slightly unwearable.

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I'm wearable fashions what he was doing was he was making

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He wasn't the only one but he was making clothes out of metal clothes, out of bits of metal little metal disks, and the things that you kind of see on on on models in the in in Sunday supplements and at

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fashion shows and things that you kind of think that's amazing.

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But when in reality but anyone ever wear it completely impractical.

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And of course, you know, in a movie is the answer and and to you know, to say something about characters in a in a film. So there's a lovely scene at the end, where, towards the end where kind of things are back to sort

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of going going right for them again. Have a look at this, and you can.

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A a rare moment of audiohabburn in in in Pakistan

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We're doing. I want you to meet my fiance since the Obino Joanna Wallace David's been telling me about you.

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Congratulations. Thank you. Had a phone call from Hal Familyius on.

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I got the job. Good! good going to the States only for 2 years.

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Then you must pay me 10 min I need your advice mark we're gonna see him in Rome on pride on his way through 10 min.

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Huh! Say, i've heard the wonderful news about you and this beautiful girl here, and I only want to say that if you 2 can be as happy as those 2 wonderful people over there and have a marriage like theirs you have to stay to worry

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about. You see, Mark, my problem is very simple. of course, no one else in the scene is wearing address made out bits of metal.

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It's a way of marking her out on screen everyone else suddenly looks very ordinary, whereas another film they're the glamorous. But it's a way of kind of saying we're slightly a cut above the

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film has this lovely kind of scene towards the very end there's a few flashbacks kind of pile in on each other very quickly, and wait, and then we're led back to the sort of have a look at this little moment

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here. It is probably the most kind of contemporary Audrey Button ever gets, and this is

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This is all Mary Conk, which is wearing the glasses up on other people's glasses.

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I've seen i'd love a pair of these losses myself.

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I've seen. Oh, the oliver people still make them they're several £100 seen images from the time of the rolling stones or wearing them, so they all had a bear but they were designed for rogering at them for this

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film bar to peoples, and a bit of quant that she's wearing, I think, in the quant.

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So slightly channel channeling the kind of M. appeal. look of the avengers have a look.

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You have to admit it. we've changed I admit we've changed. It's sad but that it is life.

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At least you're not a bad temper disorganized conceited failure anymore.

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You're a bad temper disorganized conceited success that's possible.

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Wait a minute. it's you know if bad basketball will put a parasite not here.

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Were you No, my passports in here must be in here somewhere.

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I've got a very important meeting in rome i've got to get through

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There you go. probably the most contemporary you ever see.

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Audrey had done. I think that and that's all Mary Quant thinking about those metal dresses.

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Let's finish with something a little bit silly that kind of pokes fun at that.

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I want to show you this because this isn't you probably well, you may not have seen this.

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You might have done It's not a film that's that's rightily available.

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So again I've Got quite a small copy, of it I thought it would be quite fun to look at a little bit of a film called, Who are you, Polly Magu?

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From 1,966 strengths by William Klein, which is a kind of it's a satire about fashion.

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This, but this whole first scene is kind of taking the Mickey out of

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This, This idea of clothes made of metal I think it's really interesting to to think that even at the time people knew that that was Bonkers people knew that it was silly, and it was really unwearable.

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and even cinema audiences would have known that.

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So we get this kind of this kind of fun poking poking at it. have a look at this.

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You'll see exactly what I mean this is the first time

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Thank you.

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That's what is you done just

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I hope you're well, I Miss maxwell can't you know she's lucky that i'd like people shift to live your time

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Don't plan for punching good

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Wasn't good enough

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Number One: Okay.

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Was I sit up surly more than you i'll give him a pipeline make a fail.

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Oh, she did! She moves up on the session booty before.

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We don't know I need

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We'll have to leave next I promise i'd stop at 10 to the hour.

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Questions, and it's a very silly film who are you probably, Mago, but it makes a serious point, and the serious point is that fashion is essentially a kind of stupid and frivolous business.

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And I I end with that as a bit of fun, but I hope it's the session has made you think a little bit about clothes and what they can say about characters on screen.

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And and whether we need designers to understand the kind of the the nuts and bots of filmmaking, or whether you can just drop a design or end, who just makes a certain answer look good.

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And and there's room for both isn't it in some ways.

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But i'll be interested as to which you which you prefer, and which you really liked.

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But there we go, happy to have to stay questions over to you if you don't thank you very much, Christopher.

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That was all. Rather fabulous folks wasn't it and and as a rosemary said, You seem to have picked some of her favorite films, so that's good glad to be a service who's meeting no i'm

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waiting to see if we get some questions in because I think you've stunned everybody in silence.

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Just for Oh, here we go here's one this is this one's from Miranda wasn't the court at the very beginning more orange than red.

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Oh, interesting! Well, I find it again again. Now bear with me a second.

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It may just be the way the film looks. I I I read this as maybe we can take a quick vote on it.

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Let's share this

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What do we think looks red to me you know what i've I've realized actually myself personally, that I have real trouble with things that are at the very end of our engine at the very Our Agenda fred and curiously

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this decide. This is an interesting scientific fact that you can use.

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Women have better vision. Women can discern more shades of red and orange than men, because of the way, because you there's a possibility that women can have 2 different types of of cone in that in the in your dna you can

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women's, acuity for red can be twice as good as men's, because of the way dna works, and only women can be tetrachromats.

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Some women can see more colors entirely than than all men. Men can never be touched, Chromat.

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But I definitely sometimes struggle with like. Sometimes I look at tomatoes, and I think is that red or orange things that are on that cusp.

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But I I do read that as red. Yeah. and I think things like color blame.

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This is a bit more prevalent in men than women as well, which is probably part of it as well.

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Sexualcrimacy is really interesting that's about for another day.

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The general consensus seems to be read i'm not here.

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So, even if it was a very red orange, a very, very bright orange bed, I think it would still be doing the same cinematic job, which is kind of drawing our attention to her, and suggesting These, ideas of danger

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and and passion particularly. I think red red is used as a sort of cinematic code for for those things.

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All that all the time, and and you're very very often in costume. Yeah.

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Okay, but let me have a look through here, and cause even There's some, maybe some comments in here that might be interesting to have a little more over

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So let's say that right Okay, so from Regina she thinks fashion has freed us culturally, and I guess that's probably right.

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Hmm an interesting angle I mean that's that does. that goes a bit beyond what we're looking at

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And it would be interesting to look at maybe at movies.

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That sort of reflect reflect that idea. I think I need more detail on that statement, really Okay, is that interesting, interesting?

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And questions from Sue and this is a personal opinion.

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When I think. do you think Audrey Hepburn is a good actor, because it's quite different to see how that starts.

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And Gibbons, she, and looking like almost like the same character all the time, and then seeing her later, and some of the other designers, I think I think Audrey Hepburn is a good actor.

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I like crm screen I suspect, like a lot of film stars.

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At the time she was probably never quite given material. That was a long way out of her range.

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She came up through the fifties and early sixtys and into the late sixtys at a time.

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Really when the studio instead in Hollywood is kind of is kind of on the Wayne.

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But actors are very much put in boxes. You were, you know you were.

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You were a time, and you and you would get the roles that fit your as like a like a gang land leader in an early seventys gritty thriller.

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I mean, could she do it? Did she would you have the range of something like that? I don't know I would love to see Audrey Hepburn cast against Hype more because she is always the you know the the the

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casting agent. Is it's sort of in collaboration with the studio of just that.

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Well, we want to. Yeah, we want Audrey help and there's that old that on Hollywood adage that you start with.

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Like get me you start with like who's audrey he burned.

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Then It's get me, Audrey Hair burn and it's get me a young Audrey hat burn, and then it's Who's Audrey Hepburn?

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And you go through that cycle, but you know when you're when you're hot, your hot and definitely these days act act more are allowed to stretch their range more.

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But coming through in the fiftys, and sixtys I don't think she ever would have the opportunity to prove she was, if she really was a versatile actor.

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But she's always good on screen you always feel that she's You always feel that she's safe so even though she doesn't exhibit the range you might want I would definitely put her in the box of good actors that's

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a long martial question. Okay, So a bit more of a comment from an isn't isn't the job of the designer to contribute to informing a subcatic trouble that's true isn't it what they're there

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for so I mean these these moments where like an actor has a sort of favorite designer that come in and design stuff for them.

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So that's that that they're relatively rare and that's kind of what I was you know what I was hoping to to hide and say how how they can work or or not work so eve santa

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Ron seem to understand what you you know if it'd been if it'd been a a cinematic costume designer. he would.

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He would have been good at it, would humor Chiwan. She had been good at it. Could he address someone else in the same way?

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What's that? Okay, we've got a comment from Lyndon as well, and in the in the film, the timidance seat and the red that do Your address Julie Andrews to timeless but the clothes dated

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very quickly. That would have been a good one to include today.

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Actually you're right yes, and you know that's that is the thing about very fashionable clothes.

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They do they do date, they do date very quickly I mean That's even, you know, if Santa Ros designs are a bit more time, especially you know you look at you look at Belgium, and it doesn't mean it didn't

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Stop! screams late sixties not quite as much as the as the 2 for the road clips, but it does it.

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Yeah, there's no way you can you can not things that you just take to be completely normal in their time.

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They try. and you look back and go well people wore that even if it's even if it seems completely ordinary at the time.

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So yeah, you're right to be to bring in a you know to have like contemporary fashions in a film.

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You're immediately saying, this one will look dated in 51050 years.

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Yeah, Yeah. So a couple of people have asked the same question.

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Basically Sue and Susan and the current film director still work with specific designers and included in that you know some of the big famous designers that we we know about in the fashion world.

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They do and they don't it would it depends and interestingly, probably the last really big one of those I can think of is look best on and doing the the fifth element that's late ninetys I think of that

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as a recent film, because I know the feeling so.

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Those were the the fifth element stuff is all done by

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Assign his name won't come to me someone put it in the chat, or i'll look it up for you.

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But no, the the designing clothes specifically for for film and for Tv is a bit more of a closed shop.

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When you see stuff that's made clothes that are made specifically for film

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A lot of them are rubbish unless they're designed to be shot in real close-up, and and designed to look a particular way.

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They are, you know, a lot of the banks banged together, so it's not the same it's not the same discipline as making as as making you know sort of cure clothes, or even sort of off the bag

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of the bag clothes. Hmm: Okay, right well we've got some more questions.

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So we'll just run on for a little bit to to look at these

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Now let me just look hold on 1 s we've got lots and lots of cool, which I will make sure you get a copy of later, and from Rosemary, who, who who has seen a lot of her favorite films to do and she's

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asking about maybe some other iconic 60 phones. darling servant, for example, how important is fashion in those I think we need to make a distinction between fashion and and clothes.

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You know clothes per se, because how you know clothes are incredibly important, and from whenever I watch films with my wife, and there's something on screen that it's that kind of seems meaningful.

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She quite often goes. Do you think that's meant to be that?

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And I always say, yeah, every everything is meant to be there, every little nuance of whatever you see, is meant to be there.

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So. every sort of detail of how someone dresses and what they wear can be, can be really utilized.

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To tell you something about that character. Does this Does something button up in a certain way, you know. Does it? does it fit them?

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That's always a really interesting one. you can put characters in clothes that are slightly too big to make them.

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Look to sort of make the to sort of shrink them down on screen, or you can put them in things that are too small to make them look to the bigger and and more powerful.

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That there's you know it's it you can do so much with it.

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And then you have this kind of error as Well, that's sort of slightly prior to this, and a lot of film you are what in love of their thirties and forties movies,

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Men quite often wore their own clothes. so humphrey Bogar in a lot of those kind of Warner brothers movies.

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It's quite often just barring the sits that he turned up in which I find bizarre that he would just turn up, and they'd just be like yeah what what you're wearing is good i'm free put the script down and we'll start and we'll

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start filming you think Wow! that's completely the complete the other end of the spectrum, like we've sweated over every detail of what this character is wearing.

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But you know great, but your good stuff, maybe he just you know didn't it?

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It's part of that thing isn't it of casting Humphrey Bogart in the way that you would comest order a Hepburn because you want because you want bogart you want you want

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headburn and they mean more to the audience than the count as they're playing and like I say fashion.

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It itself can sometimes data picture can sometimes data film. It can sometimes pin a film too too closely to its era whereas the kind of things you can do with costume in telling you something about a character are a bit more a bit more

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timeless. Okay, right we've got time for another couple of questions.

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We still got quite a few questions, but I don't think We're gonna have time for them All everybody But what we will do is Take the other ones a week, and we'll try and answer them afterwards.

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So let me just it's far any far any right?

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Okay, Well, let's look here. question from deborah Do you know who designed M.

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Appeals wardrobe now, I do and the Emma. I can't think of the guy's name for a while.

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You could buy the you could buy em at peel's water, but it was designed to be

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I want to say Sinclair something, Dave Sinclair I can find out for sure.

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But you could buy. you could buy the Mpr water.

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So in that in that sort of fifth series of the avengers where Mml.

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Starts wearing those kind of the sort of track suit onety kind of suits that she wears for doing kung fu and and things You could buy those those for sale in the in the High Street.

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So you could. You could get your very own your very own one and So that's like a I don't know how many people did.

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I've certainly haven't haven't seen any surviving I don't think but it's really interesting that the the makers of the event just thought well this is you know this is a potential this the potential

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tie in that something that people would spend would spend the money it's such an iconic look that Look! That's why I sort of referred to it at the end of 2 for the road.

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Because the the bit of Mary quant that she's wearing looks, I think it looks very much out of the same So the stable as those are.

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It's sort of in up it Looks out of action it looks like you can do action in it.

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But but yes, no. The name of the actual designer escaped me, but I have. I have. We can we can get that afterwards.

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Can't we we're right okay no question from Madeline.

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Now you talked a little bit when you were talking about.

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I think it was Eastern wrong about, you know, designing the clothes for the film for the characters.

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And then some of those clothes ended up, back out into the fashion routes and for people to buy.

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And Madeline is asking has been responsible for the questions ever made.

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The designer a commercial success. So and I think I think what Madeline's meaning is a costume designer.

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That then has gone on to commercial success off the back of Hmm.

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I can't think of a cinematic costume designer that's ever kind of stepped out of that box and kind of sold sole versions of the clothes that people wanted that that Mmm i'm assuming

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you ever saw. The wrong was very well known before. He then went on to the name for Catherine to know.

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Been doing that, for you know the best part of a decade by the time you did that.

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So yeah, you you could you? You would definitely sort of walk into Eve, son, or on the next year and go.

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Look, there are those trench coats, and there are those Rosa Vva.

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Shoes, and you know, and and so the look kind of trickled down to the High Street.

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I think often the look of things like that in films.

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Film fashion does trickle down to the high street but not always at the hands of the person that's done the designing, because the person person that's doing cinematic costume design is probably just onto

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the next bit of cinema designing unless they've got a particular specialty in doing historical things, or you know, unless they're an expert in certain fields. they'll be dressed just dressing other characters and moving on

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it's only where you need to have the connections to kind of bring it to the High Street, and make money, which is why I think only really people that start as that start us as fashion designers by saying I've been able

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to to do that right? Okay, we're going to take one more question. and then I promise you, after the any other questions, that will take these away.

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Somebody just says, jump will go to a fifth adam and that's the name i'll start going with.

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Yeah, Jean Bogotier designed not just the not just the costumes for for Bruce, Willis and Millieovovitch, but he designed and hand crafted himself a 100 extras costumes so every extra in

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that film is wearing an original piece of John Paul Goier, which he made with his own hand.

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So it must have been incredibly busy to. But the fifth element was at the time the most expensive movie made outside of Hollywood, and still is the second most expensive movie man outside of Hollywood.

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Whatever and he was quite big at roamed about that point as well wasn't he on pole too, it's very late ninetys It it all fits, but to make all those costumes I mean that's a lot of work and to do them

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all himself not just delegate them to a to a lackeys.

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It's that is that really of something. yeah okay right we've got what we're gonna take one more question, and then we'll take the rest of the way. Everybody and we'll do what we can to get those answered afterwards.

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And we will push them up beside the recording of the lecture.

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Once we we get that, get that upon the members sites. So this is a question from Jenny.

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Why do? you think Hollywood is dominated in contrast to French cinema, which seems much more fashion conscious?

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Interesting question isn't it it is an interesting question I what I really love about French cinema, And this may be a partial answer to this question: I love how, when you go to France you're see posters for

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films that look amazing. They look like Hollywood movies, or they look like sort of big wrongcoms or dramas, or things like that.

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And you think Oh, I wonder if i'll see that coming to the Uk.

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And they never do. They have got. The French are fantastic sort of insularizing their culture.

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They have the so many fantastic French movies never make it outside France, and in some ways they don't care.

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It's a bit like French music it's a little like French pop stars!

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A lot of them, you think. Oh, whatever happens to sound so it's like there's still an enormous star in France setting platinum records in France, but just never going outside the borders of France and I think the film

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industry works there in to a degree in quite in in the same sort of way.

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They're very happy to just be enormous in France and not necessarily break overseas.

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It's just a cultural thing more than any other nation's cinema.

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I think they're a bit like that so that might be partially responsible for it.

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Bottom line. they're just they don't really care that much they're they're happy to to make a a load of money, and and it's inside the French the French film industry. But of course people do watch French films they

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do, and and I don't know I mean in terms of influence Do they influence the way?

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The way Hollywood films look at French films.

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Do have a really certain look them the way they and I love seeing France on screen.

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I love seeing Paris on screen. I love it How when you go to Paris. it looks like it still looks like it does in in Belgium. like we're just walking around you kind of think Oh, Yeah, Paris. Still, looks exactly.

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Like that. london's changed so much. and New York has changed if you look at films shot in New York in the sixtys and seventys it looks completely different.

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But Paris is kind of as a slightly more sort of permanent look about it, but it's and i'm and yeah, no, Actually, I I love that about it.

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But yeah, in terms of an influence. And the the that influence on other on other films. That, I mean, that is really interesting is that I I suppose that must to some degree be the answer that they're not really interested in influence out what would that influence look like I

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mean are the British? Is the British film industry going to make thumbs that are that look particularly sort of stylish and Gallic? Have we got it in us?

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Good that could. Could Hollywood do that I don't think anyone even really tries?

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I think we just, I think, visually the rest of the world is quite happy to let France be France, and have that certain, that very sort of specific and just and and sort of unique way, that they, the they they portray their own country, and

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that. and and the people in it I can't think of anyone that does that that does that as well.

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So I guess. Yeah. again, a long answer short. question. I guess the answer is that possibly they're just not that interested in being influential in in quite that way. Okay, Well, folks, I think we need to wrap it up There It's 10

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past 6. No, and that was absolutely fabulous. I hope everybody enjoyed that.

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Welcome to everybody, and thank you very much for coming to that to my lecture.

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I hope you will enjoy it. so we're going to be talking about these, so I shall get going with the

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I've got to share my screen with you other than to do on Google slide show.

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Okay, we did. That is completely up. then, okay? so so what we're doing today.

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Is, we are looking at saving to be and we're looking at the impact of food of modern food productions on in population.

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And we're going to see? Why, why do we like things so much?

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What is it about these I think it's so interesting also why are they so important?

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Okay, So we're going to be discovering the variety of species. Of these we're going to look at license and habitats.

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Things we can do to encourage them into our own outside spaces.

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Okay, we're going to look at the importance of these within farming, and can get practices within farming that that actually affects in populations.

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I'm going to talk a little bit at home production? and look at. Is it really part of farming?

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Is it something that we didn't just dominate or is it actually an industry in its own month?

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So we have a variety of Ccs in the Uk.

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We actually have about 230 varieties of things in the Uk.

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They do look different. but sometimes we just say So we have 4 main types of varieties.

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We have Mason bes. We have mining these.

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Unfortunately, but not yeah. We saw the 2 things in but we also have We've got to be and a cop into these.

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But, Mason, these are mining. These are the most likely solid treaties that you've noticed in your outside space, and then we have one billing, and of course honeybee and both of those are social beings so they

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live in large groups. So first of all, Oh, these are all pictures of them.

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Hi, Samuel, we're going to just have a little quick look at mixing these

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These are very common. they nest in hollow spaces and I don't know if you've seen the little bandwidth houses.

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You can get them in the garden centers and things and they're, like lots and lots of victims, and all put together, and those are designed for mason bees, mason.

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These like a hollow, so they all solitary base.

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Very nice in Hello, Tweaks Hollow trees .

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Little little areas, but also Okay, which is why they got the name.

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They like soft crumbly makes me so and they will make little tons.

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So they actually make tools about 4 inches long, out sort of 10 cm long, and what they do is, and that shows you a bit in the bottom picture.

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Here we have little spaces, so they they go into the far end of the tunnel.

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They will put some some pollen in that and they'll lay an egg, and then they will stop right up with some.

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But and then the next one along that puts another egg more fallen, and stop right up with mud, and can see that yellow bits in the picture a problem.

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And then the mud stop. bring it up to keep doing that until they fill up the whole office 4 inch little tune

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And they fill them up on end of these will actually hatch in order on their come out.

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So this and one never see actually come out first. So the lava will hatch, and they actually could paint in autumn.

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Okay be like all insects. if you think about Dr.

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Slides. We all know about they go into a queue.

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But i'mended to come up to fly with the same thing happens in effect of the and you have an egg a little little group.

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If the then they pipe and then they've come on the pupilating rather can survive them to in that sense.

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Okay, we're not into it didn't work okay so We're going.

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That's how they look at my now, these things are lucky They're not little ginger footballs.

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Does that be very healthy, and they tend to be quite ginger.

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There are various sorts of our most common. One is the little ginger on and I bye.

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They make sense in us, and then like very very light soils, and they will borrow into soils, and there's a picture at the bottom of the screen.

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Sounds like a volcano of this i've got to actually wear a mining being the dog out a little tunnel, so it can lay a day at the bottom. Okay, So it's like a little volcano of

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soft. so on the top of the of the graphs I mean Sometimes I think hasn't been in my garden, and thought it was a a a worm test, but some if it looks like a volcano it's

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not to work. you got into your goal in the world.

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Okay, I actually don't have my need to mind online I have I was too heavy for them.

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Alright, Yeah, Now it's just this is exciting phone buildings.

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We all have a bumblebee and if they you know the Sunday, the larger the social insects.

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They live in commonly up to about 200 workers and queens built next of dried masses.

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And like all these, the work has gathered pollen and nectar, and they feed on Problem the new queens and the the nails drones at the end of the scenes, so sort of coming up just at the

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end of summer new Qu Queens hatched nail these hatch, and they will make the drones, you know they're all trying to make the wrong queen.

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But as soon as they related Yup, the males will die.

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Unfortunately, okay, and also the workers at the end of the season will die as well as old queens will die.

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So the only ones hibernate with b will be only these that hi the name of the new meetings ready for next year, and they're able to hide the motor.

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One of these is quite interesting, because they are the only things that can actually generate their own body.

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So all of these are able to, within the muscles that to their wing muscles the muscles that make the wings flat, they are able to produce actual heat.

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So all insects are cold blooded. What will be? because of this?

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They can actually make a little bit of heat for themselves so That's the very, very first thing that you will usually see out in the garden in the spring, and they're very often then very last ones.

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That you see in the old term, because they are able to produce this little bit of heat.

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It gives them that advantage. you can build you can make little nests feel free in your garden. If you've got a garden or an outside space, you can have an upturned pot you fill it up with you know drive graphs then it's upside down to the hot

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and you can make people if you go from movies in your area.

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Correct. Okay, honey beans honey bees are there the bees that we all love?

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We all have a honey bee because they nice to me.

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How many days are interesting because we domesticated some thousands and thousands of years.

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We as humans are, we like honey. we like sweet things.

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And so we have actually exploit honeybees for thousands of years, and pretty much.

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Now all, how do these are domesticated? You find very few wild populations can be.

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Now, if you do find wild populations they will be in woods, so their natural habits would be But it's quite rare to find them like that.

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These days, especially somewhere like 15, and we know that honey been used for thousands of years by humans.

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And because their jobs are planning have been found actually in tools, you know, in Egypt.

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And in pyramids and old tunes around the world you sometimes find jars of honey which have been left with the with the person that died to help them in the afterlife.

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Usually some of that honey has actually been tested and it's still being okay.

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I mean, i'm not sure I want to eat it got to catch you been surprising how because it's basically pure sugar.

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It. it goes to buy, or ridiculous length of time it gets from poppy sealed.

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So every year a new queen because the clean is the only thing in the honeymoon, that will actually make. So the queens there to just lay it and she's very very big and she doesn't do much

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she's looked after completely by the work of these and all she does is and have to be end of.

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Yeah, you know So and in the ultimate she will either completely replace her mother.

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You know the old queen, she might be taken out of the hive.

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All you know, for the new group to start a new colony, and that's why sometimes you get sworn into fees in the autumn. that's when a new queen is second somebody workers with that just got her own

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colony. So what we're going to look at now is those are just the baby.

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So we've got the social we've got the yeah solitudes.

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And now we're going to have a little look at well making we can do to help the health encourage fees and to increase in populations.

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So obviously honey bees are completely domesticated, and so they are managed.

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But all of the other bees being bumblebees and assembly, and the the mining.

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These all of them are be, which are completely wild, and they do rely on flowers to to get pollen unactive to me, to survive.

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So our like outside spaces i'm provide food for them the way we manage our own outside space can really help and really make a difference.

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So this here is a picture of a very, very lovely room to Denver.

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I have to admit it is in my garden. but that that was very early in the spring.

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18 full of these, these love are votedndrome.

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So what we can do? add to attract these into our outside spaces.

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Really. we only need to 3 things they just need something to do.

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Some 2 flowers. They need so much to drink So we need to provide some water that they can kind of drink from. and this is done today.

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That's all it's quite straightforward and actually, even if you only have a small little balcony, you can still grow something that will attract these or you can provide a little source of water.

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From these, so we can all do something to attract people

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So we'll start off with zoom. so food. thanks thank you. Thank you.

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They feed on home. And next, okay, the pollen is very important to provide a lot of proteins or to protein and open problem which you need for growth.

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Next to contains a lot of sugar and she'll go as what the be used for energy.

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So they need both. So what do you really want within your garden?

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If you can, is to make sure that there's something in your garden, that flowers very, very right through to the end of the autumn.

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So if you have a big garden that's not so difficult to do It's a smaller darwin's not so easy. but you might want to think I've only got to do about today, but this big park, nearby so i'm

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going to grow something that's how it's savior in India.

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So the very first piece can have some next to stop more or you might want to sound like ultimate flowers.

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I'll bring something that flows into the autumn so if you've got the opportunity to run something clouds you know the flowers throughout the year.

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Then that's great. if you can have that you can So these really like, single type of flowers. So you know, you can get those waiting pretty pretty flowers, you know that some very very commonly double chicken type of

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flowers, things like Well, roses, or a good example, because, you know, the wild roses are just a single actual flower and things.

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Yeah, hold on the neck to home. But then some of the very, very fancy roses have multiple apples, and that makes it a little more difficult for me to get

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No, the nectar and the column so they're not a single pack of flower, and some of the most successful flowers.

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For these are things like tying flowers mink flowers herbs are very good.

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I love you'll see a picture I think like toronto raspberries.

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I've got that phase at all and i'm really very lucky to have them.

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But because they flower very early and I had lots of flowers, and the very simple flowers, maybe so single flowers. it is the pictures, I've got in here we've got

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a box club of these love a box stuff. They can just pop, crawl up into the middle, and the other dollar is, is it working on the end like flower chai?

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Something like that for the bees to get pollen, unnecessary phone.

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And so I need to wild flowers. I think this thing a lot, you know.

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If you look at a lot of things in India they'll say oh, you've got to have wild flowers in You've got them.

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But actually, these are not fussing and they don't have to have wild flowers.

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If you grow flowers that you like something like snap dragons or your herbs, if you like them.

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The bees are going to like some too those are simple flowers. so it doesn't have to be wild flowers.

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Okay, you know, especially if you've only got a small area you love them to want really to grow a pot of buttercups.

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But you might like to throw a these fees would prefer and use might enjoy looking at as well.

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Okay, So don't feed for go miles. the other thing you can do is if you have a lawn, you can know it unless often.

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You can not I don't know if any of you have done this, and some of you might have done this this year.

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There was no May, and people were encouraged not to load them all the way to that thing.

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Daisies and the bucket crops, and whatever well to do you all the damned alliance is love the dandelion

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So that goes through our So you might want to do that.

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You might want to just leave a touch of your law that you never know

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So you that flowers, the wild flowers flourishing will catch a role that's not to make a difference.

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You can grow fruits and vegetables, so lots of boots and plants things like black apples.

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It plums all of those flowers we like, and they do tend to flow very in spring.

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So those are flowering before you know the backing phones.

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Rooms, and so on. and if you've got room and you like from that that can be good.

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People are vegetables, and if you leave a few of them to just go to flower, you know I I do see purple scratching.

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This year I cut purple sprouting, but towards the end no books pronouncing the Survey and I just let them flower, and is really like those 2.

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And the courting interesting actually because they're part of what's called bracket.

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Her family habage family. that that's Why, I was actually just yellow on the very simple flowers.

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These really enjoy visiting those I don't know if any of you actually seeing you know what i'm sure everybody's seeing fields and yellow. the rake fields that farmers are growing now and then I walked

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through a field recently that had well in the spring that had rape in it.

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I haven't realized that rape is actually part of the Brassica family.

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It's. It is another type of cabbage hi for family.

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So these were really like visiting right sales as well.

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And then flowering her you Know as i've just mentioned time?

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Where is really linked all of those chimes, all of those things seem to relax.

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They like to happen as well, having there is sort of it's almost it's almost her isn't it.

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So Microsoft teams. Yeah. Well, I grew it last year.

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This year on that So once it flowers, it can be flowering fully in the next couple of weeks, and the beings will visit that as well and hopefully.

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I might get some seeds. So the next year, bye

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The other thing that we need is water, so these they need to drink.

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I we don't really think of insectspring, but actually they do each thing so they quite like to they need shallow, so they don't want to drown.

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So if you've got a little dish that you can put out in the garb or a small bird that the picture is showing bees on the edge of a bird, back.

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Actually something like a shadow dish. Have a bird path.

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I have used one of those and the things that you can put a pop on.

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Just filled up with water, just a plastic one, and not to work really well.

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And that's like it, too. the hedgehogs.

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Thank you to teaching tonight. Then you got phones.

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If you put upon that great, but if you have deep water, you just need to add something to that.

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The base can land on it. because they can't run the water, and then take off again.

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Yeah, not so i'm not like to see you right so they do need something, so you might want to just put some stones, and in so that they just put on the water.

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All cooks will do as well you know they don't make it look as good

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And there we go. Oh, sorry we're going straight on speed why, these are important.

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Houses for these. I should have said that before. Let me just go back a bit.

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Hey? to provide someone to what you want to, You might.

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You might want to buy the little to the houses. You can buy all sorts of things that you can make from yourself.

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So little little sort of shouted Spots for your beans to there.

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My neighbor has Mason be actually in his in his house, or in the world of his house.

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He thinks it's possible to so it's just so in your own house outside space. it's someone something to eat, something's drinking the way to live. Well, that's all we all need hi next Okay.

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so these are really important. We need the pollination, and this is one that this is the raspberry phones.

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Okay, don't look too closely at least I know there's something on them that's great plan to go if they they need pollinating.

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All that soft groups need culminating all of our vegetables.

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We we need combination problem

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Buzzing things going around. Okay, not just we eat needs policy pollinated by these I mean all of the serial crops holiday to find wind no things.

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But anything that's fruit will need to have been called

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I think last piece and Deans they need This is quite interesting.

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This is just a graph, really, and i'm not gonna go in with the details of the numbers, because it doesn't really matter too much.

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But but the dark blue is this is the daily calories of per person, or my types of food that people have eaten in the past.

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And what is predicting for them to be in the future and I think what's quite interesting, because across the top this bit across the top.

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This thing is the number of calories provided by each different type of food, and in 1970 the total number of calories.

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This is from man that was eaten was about 2,400 calories a day, and if you look at 2,010, it's the middle mom we have gone up to simple Dane calories.

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All I, an average mom, is about 2,800 calories.

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So we are eating more now than we're in 1972, and I think that's interesting in excel because we know that there is a problem either with people weighing more than they used to because of each more than they

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used to, but of course we're also taller than we used to be so.

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We need a bit tweet to bit more. so there is more to it than just calories that you need to.

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But what's interesting is the dark blue is serial through 2 pulses.

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So serials are winged. but

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And roots are things like Kara. How nice potatoes!

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You know that sort of thing, so they will grow and we tend to pick those before they flower that we do need some to flour.

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So we've got seeds with 2 to the next year.

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Okay, and the ones that we are growing proceed to next year need to be polluted by these health phase.

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All things like peas and beans. they need to be implemented by these, because pulses are actually the seed of phones.

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So they all the If you, If you regard me, you will know that the pulses are the actually see.

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So all of those need to be pollinated by E shook up. Most of the sugar that we have in Britain is produced in Britain, and it is made from sugar.

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Beat, so that works in the same way as harrison things they don't need to flower just to get before we harvest them.

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But we need to have some as a flowering ready for the next year.

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Vegetable oils. this is interesting and we're reading more and more vegetable loads than we used to, and I don't know some of you might remember if you're old enough to remember the 1976 but people

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in 1970 would use less oil than they do now. so people in 90 70 were far more likely to use Flood to cook with.

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Say that if you were frying bacon or something Chips, you would use lab.

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Whereas these things we use a lot more oil, because we we proceeded to be more healthy.

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So if we, if we're using more vegetable oil farmers, have to grow more crops to make vegetable loans.

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So those yellow fields of rank talking about the the rape flowers.

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It's set seed and the oil comes from the seed, and I you might have also seen the blue fields and that's been again the same past. the flower the oil comes from the seed.

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So those needs to be pollinated bye. ids.

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These are not the only pollinator, but they are the name one neat.

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Now that obviously meet is neat, correct in Britain at least.

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Most of our livestock is crazy on on sales.

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On the past year round. Actually, farmers want some flowers on because the seeds from flowers.

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Yeah more, because seeds provide protein and Also, if you've got a an industry where you're coming, and they often need to be back in winter with signage away on the back side of your hey?

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Does contain combatational graph wild flowers on their seat, and it gives them more balance diet for the livestock over the winter.

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So again, you need all that dairy house the same.

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Is that? hey, signage of the winter, and supplemented by other things sometimes as well.

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I just thought it was quite interesting now. and I think it's very interesting.

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How the calorie intake is going up. and it looks like the predictions are that by 2,050.

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We're going to yeah which actually is quite a very full topic.

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So now we're looking at actual falling under gardening as well, and practices that can affect that the population.

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So we all know, and i'm sure we called on it we spring things.

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So we've seen we find we get spray out we've seen we do more.

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We get that spray out enough? Yeah, something follows have to do with time.

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So herbicide, pesticide use will affect in populations, and the actual set back her.

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Besides the things that kill me pesticides are the things that kill But i'm lots of herbicide do effect insect populations as well.

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Okay, they don't just kill the bomb so all herbicides on pesticides are known as a corrective term is as well.

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Chemicals. Okay, and they certainly do affect people, because when you think about it. If you are spraying your fields because you've got an intestation of some sort of so fly, which keeps all these then a

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pesticide that's kills a solid because we are insects just like software.

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So that's why they they one of the other things we're farming, particularly hobbies.

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Monoculture is just falling i'm lost of n resting sites.

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If just phone. So my picture here is just showing a farmer.

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This is a rice field actually in vice is pollinated by wind.

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But this is a monoculture. So can you see that, as far as you can see, the office is free in the background.

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But this is a very valid rice field and the man is spring, and he sprang something quite noxious because he's got a hat on a mask and some goggles i'm protected.

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Here. So that shows you how dangerous the chemical is the T screen.

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Monica chat is, and actually where 1 one okay, but we're gonna just start off with insect tests.

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Alright. So in fact, in fact, insects that damage crops. actually.

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Are about 80% of the world. say damage about 18% of the world's agricultural production.

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Okay, But actually all the effects that we know only about not 25% actually per damage props.

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So all the information that we know of in the world only about half of the saint actually damage crops, not 18% of the world.

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Agricultural production is damaged by her vigorous insect.

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So it's a big problem you know that that's a you're a farmer, and you lose 18% of your crop.

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That's a significant amount of money but also in areas where maybe this is much food that's a significant amount of food that is lost to the human population as well.

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I'm not is why phone is right and you can understand that I mean stand up.

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So the impact of chemicals actually is more than we fault originally.

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So when chemicals, the herbicides are actually passage.

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So how they affect B populations. In particular, they are tested individually.

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But there have been studies recently that have shown. Most farmers do not use one chemical on its own.

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They use 2 or 3 chemicals or a little cocktail, because they might spray for the the microscope field for insect and weeds at same time same time.

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Doesn't make you do it all long ago I recently.

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Well, I think last year I bought a spray for my roses, and it was a fungus side, and an insect decide all in one.

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I very rarely use it. and farmers will do the same.

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They will use more than one kind of at one time. Recent studies have shown that when you do this, when you mix and chemicals, the effect on these is, if actually much much more from each single chemical on its own.

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The more unloaded will will be will die cause often chemicals in the next.

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I'm not quite an interesting thing. and I think in the future that's going to be one of the areas. that farmers are going to be able to be looking out.

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Oh, okay, if they want to try and reduce the number of things at the beginning.

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Now this is an interesting I don't want you to be worried about all the different numbers and things.

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But i'm showing you this because I think it's a very interesting

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So that is just statistics. what's it showing is difference in

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The types of chemicals which are allowed to be used in different countries in the world.

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So we have got here the first time. The first column is the so the telling you which chemical town, or call the use.

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So if it's got a green it's a green one we use it.

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If it's a red color you don't or it's being phased out.

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Okay, if it's orange it is on its way to being phased out.

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But I think what's very, very interesting is when you look at the difference, particularly here between the Eu most of these chemicals down the side are not allowed, and are not used.

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But in the U.S.A. every single one of them can be.

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And then, when you look at Brazil this is a big export of of food products. In Brazil.

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A significant number are not allowed, or it be phased out.

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And China is interesting, too, although to be that the result the data in China is tricky.

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Wherever this is 0. It means that we actually don't have the data and the Chinese are quite careful as to what information they they share.

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So we Don't have full information about what's allowed or not allowed in China, and I think the difference between the U.S.A. and Europe is quite difficult.

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And this this is just a small number of cameras.

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I am aware that a couple of these things are actually antibiotics.

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Okay, these are not all exercise, and her the side and from the side there's one or 2 there that are

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Okay, but it was just to show you but in different parts of the world. There are different rules about which chemicals can't be used, and that's all I wanted to show you there

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Okay, so, Mona, culture, mono means one. So what it means is one crop grown in a very big area, and there are many parts of the world where there are acres and acres are exactly The same.

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Cost. you see a lot of it in America. because they've got Pennsylvania of land. So they have very, very large mono cultures.

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Cultures of one thing. the picture actually shows problems the veto element trees in blossom, which is why they look back into but they also, if you were out there in the area's group where on grounds.

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Not just in America, the world and the parts of the world, and they, if they were just feeling and the downside of this is, you need need to be to pollinate elements, because almonds are see of the tree.

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But when these feed only on the pollen are next to one single phantom, they end up being a bit deficient in certain nutrients, and because they're a bit deficient in certain nutrients they almost

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susceptible to disease and parasites and disease and Parsex will kill So when these are feeding from lots, lots of different sources of nectar on column, then they have it they have a more balanced

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diet. it's just like us you need a variety of things.

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You have a balance diet. Your your immune system is much stronger.

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So that's one of the problems in other cultures yeah, The other thing is is that when you have a a culture like .

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Fields of the same thing like this all in the rows is the bees.

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Don't have any any way mark and so when they go after the high and forage they'll call in the nectar and they go back to the High to find it very difficult to tell the other bees right sure where the the

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solid was because normally, the bees that provide only dance, which you may be aware of.

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They do a little widely done. So it basically says you could go this way and you turn left by the big tree, and then you turn right by the big find.

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A big rock you'll bend by some nice flowers but when it's monoculture around any big trees there aren't any different rocks, so it's very difficult for these to tell the other beat in the high where they call them the next it

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is, they can't navigate so well and then the other thing is is that in these sort of monocultures, what happens is these are actually transported to the field when the things are in former and because they're

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transported to the field. When things are in power they are.

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The transport is on Lois and they go from one place to the other following flowers. but transporting being on Laurie's they can't put them in high so they just pick the hive up and pop it on

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the lorry. but acting itself is very, very stressful for me.

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So, and because it's stressful it reduces the remaining system the more seasons

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Now for me. So, honey, is it a bad product to call crop pollination?

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Or is it actually an industry? Well, I would say it both excessive, because we do need honeybees, and there is a an industry in actually providing under these 4 crops, and that happens all over the world the honeybees

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are actually moved around the country to to actually call them.

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They call it, happens all over the world and that in itself is an industry, but it's a byproduct of agriculture.

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But then you have actual honey production, and how many production is important.

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It Project provides a lot of of income. So here we go a new production.

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So this this picture is just showing you very simple, funny story of funny.

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So basically the story of hunting age we start off where's the beans. They collect pollen and nectar nectar is a sugar resistance on the bees.

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Actually when they take it back to the the high they convert that they evacuate off a lot of the water from the nectar, and it becomes more concentrated and then turns into the need.

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Okay, So we're in the beehive it's turned into honey, and it's stored okay stored in in in the honeycomb.

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And then the bt becomes and take something.

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Come out, strips off the top of it, pops the honey. the honeycomb into a centrifuges.

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It's been dick and actually of a small scale. It is actually a handpack spinning it's like a spin.

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It's like a like a spin via but if you're looking at me very, very large honey production.

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Factory then. obviously it's done by machine the same thing just some, and because it spins out the honey just comes out and goes against 5, and it's collected, and then it's pure 8 football so

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if you bind on you from somewhere local from where you live and it's being and that's what will happen if you buy honey from the supermarket, it's usually to a certain temperature

00:43:53.000 --> 00:44:11.000
for short time to care off any microbial. but to be fair honey, it has such a high concentration of sugar, that that high concentration of sugar actually inhibits microbial growth, our mount

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has been used in the past and he's still used an anti-sectic.

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So if you were out in the middle of nowhere, cut yourself with you back.

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With that you saw some wild honey you could correct.

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You want, honey, put it on your cotton, and it was help it does have a nonprofit.

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Okay, I thought. My train is not. It is anti-croding.

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Okay, no worldwide honey is a major industry, and we we produce any 2 million tons of China is the largest largest producer in the world, on most of the money, that you buy in the same market.

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Especially if you go into the more budget. price 20 Most of that will come from China, and those budget price ties are mixed homes.

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So There's not a 100 various places. are extended turkey interested in the second time. and the Uk is about 13. so we do produce a legal amount in Uk honey.

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Call me a add in small scale, you know very, very small.

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You could have got couple of hides bottom of the garden, or in a space.

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What are they? we've got to honey bee society, and they have some lives in the grade yard and they they they could use a small amount.

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They've got 2 or 3 high to number so you can have those small scale produces.

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But then you have the and the very large scale of it as well. Okay.

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So there's quite a variety they call so honey beans.

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We need to be kept in an optimum condition they need to be healthy, and it's and in order to do this you need to keep you need to make sure that the hides are they need to make sure that these are healthy and they

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they. We are feeding on the variety of flowers.

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And you need to keep an eye on them and make sure that they are healthy.

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A good husband. Dream is very, very important, and you'll have all heard about this very old.

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Might this but got into Australia. i'm has been a huge problem in in the Uk.

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And all around the world, because 8,200 anything behind and it.

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Okay, but you kill very if you keep your bees. well, then, they are stronger and more able to fight off.

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And you can. You can stop the lights very, very early, and then a good fee keeper will then do the appropriate things to to get me.

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The months from their time. Okay, it's more of a management thing Australia was really trying now to not let it come in and not let it spread. But i'm sure you've all seen on the news. they've got quarantine

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destroying highs, and so on and I know that in the Uk when the first came here.

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But we don't need to stop It completely so income is generated obviously from the same body.

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But also from sale of these wax you know the polish or candles and that sort of thing, and also and people who are in effect falling honey.

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Bees, they're able to also either hire out with any use the pollination or to provide training keepers in the future. You need to go on a training course. if you want to keep these, you need to know how to do it

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properly. So the Uk actually is quite interesting. It produces about 14% of the honey that's confused in the domestic mark.

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But the European average is about 60%. So I was a lot of the honey we eat from abroad.

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That's happy to do the cost yeah the honey from abroad is cheaper.

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January, you do, however. X. full 20, so we do export.

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How, and, in fact, we actually the income generated from exporting country in 2021 was about 12 million pounds, which is quite a lot.

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I'm I think part of fact is that British honey is a premium product.

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When people bought from a rule of by which honey they know it is is a a product where don't use quite so many pesticides, and it is premium product in in much the way that our

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so you can charge more for it, and we do export.

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A significant amount of money, obviously in 2020, 2029, 2020 honey experts went down.

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But we all know why that was We're not going into that.

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But interestingly, and since Brexit went through our honey exports, voltage gone down as well. That used to do with us coming out of the single market So that has effectively excellent.

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Okay. So in conclusion, in the Britain we have about 270

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But species Of these about 260 of those are solitary.

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These so only about 20 species of all of these actually then, social beings, living columns, and those are only We can make changes to attract fees to our gardens.

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We can have water we can have, Thank you. flowers, and we can have Them They can look and crannies for them to make. next.

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Calming practices can decrease the population if we're using a lot of agriculture chemicals.

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If we're only growing one type of crop and also when you do that, you'll often lose habitat's gonna be to nest in as well.

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These polynomials of crops, and that is why they are so important, and that is worldwide, that every country in the world relies on the and of a pollinators.

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That because we found these because we domesticated these, we we can control.

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Honey is made by these, and enjoyed by most of us.

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Oh, that's just the end of my presentation today.

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I hope you found it very interesting and I hope that you have learned something new, and I've not given you far too much information.

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In a very short space of time. Okay, thank you very much I'm.

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Good to have this to the Okay, Thanks very much for that, Catherine. That was that was really quite interesting.

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Certainly eye opening for me, and as somebody that doesn't particularly like bees much in terms of them buzzing round me.

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It's a quite frightening for me to know there's 270 different species of them.

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However. right. Let's have a look at some questions because we do have a few here now.

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Let's start from the talk no actually this is a question what's question from Jan or mood of a comments.

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But she's saying, my b hotel is not attracting any bees.

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It's positioned on a fence but nothing is happening so she's wondering what she's doing wrong.

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What, what would be the the the sort of common mistakes that you might meet with something like that, or the common reasons why bees might not be attracted?

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Well, I also have a big hotel. and I don't have any reason to type them.

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I Sometimes it's predict the positioning of it if if it's positioned in the wrong place, you know it might be too windy.

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It might be at the wrong time of the day. you may just not have nice to meet you in your garden. you you just like leaving an annual where at the month so many meetings.

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But it's probably worth trying to position it in a slightly different place.

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Maybe somewhere more sheltered how's it maybe out of the wind.

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Maybe, so that it doesn't get rained on so much Sorry it's worth just trying 18 different places in your garden. but maybe just moving once in this, you know, in in the winter see if something come Well, maybe this

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time we go actually see? see? just maybe once then give it a whole year, and if it still doesn't attract any, then try somewhat different.

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Okay, Okay, So location seems to be quite an important thing.

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So I hope that helps you, Jen. And okay, this is from Barbara.

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Is it right? The flowers from garden sensors aren't grown organically, and so please don't like them.

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Well, I would say we've gotten sent to flowers, and they probably most of them won't be good from organically unless it said it on the on on the actual ticket.

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Then they're not going to being grown organically but to be fair once they've been in your garden, for you know, 2 or 3 weeks.

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Any chemicals that will have been used during their propagation and growing on those chemicals will have and would have reduced in the in strength, in the in the actual hours.

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So no garden sent to flowers should be absolutely fine and then, shouldn't affect your being populations at all right.

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What else do we have? Let's see no this is in connection with that really interesting graphic that you showed us about the different sort of crops?

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And sort of food stuffs, and the sort of calories and that kind of thing, so is asking what sort of food stuff are in the other category.

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Oh, I have no idea. Okay. ready there. Sorry to ask you a really awkward question.

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Well, it will certainly be fish. fish. showfish that that will be another, because that's not easier to zoom meet, and a a search, so it will be another.

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Do you know what I really don't know That's something that we can look at afterwards.

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Maybe I think so. I think so. Yeah, I can't think of anything, just off the top of my head.

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What it could be. but there will i'm sure I mean there will be other things I just yeah, and we've got Well, it's a comment here from Caroline.

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Actually that I thought was really interesting, and the use be harmful pesticides to protect sugar kin.

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And we have an obesity problem fairly obvious solution there.

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Yeah, cool. I think you're absolutely right. I mean you know we we, we all know this problem within within the whole world.

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Actually, and it it. It comes down when it comes down to it. You know it.

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It is to do how much you need the caloric value of the zoom.

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Do you eat So yes, you're absolutely right but you know as humans, we like sweet things.

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The demand things is very, very high and you can't say to it to a pharmaceutical.

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We've got to stop grown shoulder beat because of these 2 problem, because when it comes down to it that farmer is going to make living for himself or herself and their families, and it's up to our as individuals to choose whether

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we sugar or high calorie, food or not you know it's our choice.

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So you know it is a it's a it's a it's a it's a balance thing Okay, here's a question from Pat.

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She's asking well, She's talking about monica holy honey from New Zealand.

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Very expensive. and is it worth the money in terms of health benefits?

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Well interesting. They went to new company class, came in the market.

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We were all told it was absolutely fantastic and it's very, very good for things like well to to eat the health, and it's also, you know, to put on saw bits on your skin, and really really good.

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And it does certainly help with the healing of skin and it is anticipated, but it when it first came on the market, we were all told it was like super honey Well, that's recently, which say actually it's.

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Not so much different from normal pure honey that you might buy from a local producer.

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So i've i've seen some some sluggish recently, which seem to indicate that maybe it's not quite the super honey that we were told it was when it first came on the market on any Tv is extremely expensive so

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possibly, if you're using it thank you notice the difference that's right.

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But if you might, you might want to try using you know a natural honey from from no local

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The local producer. and see if there's any difference yourself.

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So if it's a yeah it was originally called a super honey.

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But but the studies are showing that maybe it's not quite so different from Hmm.

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And I have. and Helene asking, could you repeat you were talking?

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I think it was fairly early on in the lecture about blue flowers, and you just repeat what they wear.

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They were Lindsey Lindsey Yeah.

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Yeah, interesting, Well, that helps you. Okay, I am going to finish up.

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Let me just have a look right in fact we've got a couple of other questions, and then I think we'll we'll wrap up. Now, a question here from amal I don't know if you'll know the answer to

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this one actually does honey help with eczema and inflamed skin.

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So you know, kind of like, you know, skin meditation and that kind of thing right Well, excellent a that every single person, the maximum, the chances are something different.

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Will work. Okay, it's one of those conditions. that what works one person doesn't necessarily work for another.

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But some people do find that honey will help it's always worth trying.

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If it helps you that's good if you don't see any difference after a week, then it may be not really going to work for you.

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But eczema itself is so variable you know we all know that there are certain queens that work for one person, and they just don't touch another person's eczema, and the same with any

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irritant, sort of skin condition so it's so variable. it. it won't do any harm it's most definitely worth a try, and if it works for you that's great, but if it doesn't then, then, just

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continue. Okay, right. We'll finish up on this question this is a bit of a 1 million dollar question.

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Actually This is from elizabeth he's asking well, leaving the Eu and true our own farming standards improve the lots of our b populations.

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Well, it depends on what we do with our own standards.

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If we improve them and set the Eu standards off.

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Very strict anyway, and the British standards of this stand.

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Some of our standards are stricter than the one the Eu dictate.

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Anyway, it depends really on how the governments go if they start relaxing some of our our methods of farming, or what's allowed here.

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And obviously you can get worse. it's a typing things up.

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Then the populations may well and Yeah. So I think it.

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It will depend very, very much on what the policies that the Government puts forward, and the rules that they have.

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Oh, and of course some of that I mean I i'd like to say that we, as the public, should be able to influence that

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But how much influence we have on government, you know. it can be a little bit limited.

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Yeah, Okay, Well, thank you, very much, Catherine and I hope everybody enjoyed that.

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Okay, great, great, great to see you you all. I thank you very much for coming today to hear a lecture about a writer.

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You probably never heard of which I'm amazed the the so many of you want to hear about a writer. you probably haven't heard of will be interesting to hear at the end.

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If there is anyone who's heard of him and it's great.

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He's a his name's mark Rutherford he's a late nineteenth century writer, and he's been a been a part of my life for for many years now, and i'm going to be talking today,

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eventually about the relationship between his writing and depression I guess mental health, although in those days it wasn't really called mental health or depression, it was usually called hypochondria, or melancholia.

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For many people it didn't exist at all It was something that you just simply had to pull yourself together out of

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But for other food. It was something that played him all his life, and he there's reached a stage in his life.

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We started to write about his own depression, amongst many other things.

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I guess so. so i'll be introducing him again.

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The great thing about it is very easy to be on authority about Mark R.

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Because because really not many people have read him not many people have heard of him.

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So if you've like read more than one book you're already on authority.

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So, and that there's not that many books to read in fact. but so it's it's quite pleasant to have him, as it were, as you as a niche sphere of expertise, because one you know one instantly

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you're not in If you if I'd been If my research interested in Dickens or George Elliot.

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You know you're in competition with so many many great names, Mark Rutherford, you know there is a couple of people I know who have read him which is kind of nice, really.

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I came upon him. Who is he? First of all I came upon him.

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Bike complete accident. and and i've i'll i'll show you.

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It was just I was in a I was in a junk show in Brighton one day 20 years ago, and I always found this old wooden trunk, and there are loads of junk.

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There was some brass animals, some seaside postcards of people in caps and very heavy jackets.

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Walking along, walking along the seafront. Why did the Victorians always wear ties and jackets and hats on the beach on hot summer days?

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But they did, and you could tell by all photos. and then there was a very shabby old coat, and I pulled out the coat and

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A book fell out. this one i've got it in a kind of a plastic wrapper, because it's it's quite rare

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In fact, I now know there are only 200 copies of this printed, So there's probably only about 10 of these which actually exist anymore.

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So this is one of them. it's extremely rare but one of the rarest Victorian books.

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It's. this have been produced I Didn't know that then, and it was called the Autobiography of Mark Rutherford.

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So I pick this up and depressingly it's called the autopilot.

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I turn the title page. It says the Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Dissenting Minister, edited by his friend and I felt well.

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You know there are few kind of autobiographies that Vickers and priests have made of their lives.

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Not the kind of thing that's really going to interest me Really, it already looks a bit boring, although there was something about this title page that that kind of got to me.

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The autobiography of Mark Brotherford dissenting Minister, edited by his friend Reuben Chat Cop.

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I've got a picture of the title page here

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And hopefully, you can see that so there's my book

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And there's a title page I guess what was interesting.

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First of all is the fact that i'd never heard of him so?

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Why was he publishing an autobiography? usually, you know, when you know my parents have got on their bookshelves, like, you know.

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Want to talk for you, David Jason, or you know or the autobiography of Beckham, or whatever they're people that you heard of.

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But why would someone who is Mark Rutherford?

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Sometimes people write autobiographies when they're not famous words with, for example, wrote his autobiography before anybody knew who.

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But he didn't want to publish it he wrote it for himself, and there's also that little inscription there on the title page, edited by his friend Ruben Chapcott underneath of course it says dissenting

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minister. What is it dissenting Minister and then it says, edited by his friend Ruben Chapcott, and I was that's intriguing.

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Why would a friend edit and autobiography so There's enough there for me at least, to to not fling the thing back into the trunk from whence I had plucked it?

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It was published. This is on the title page by Tribna and Co.

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Whoever they were in 1881 and there's that inscription A nice name, I mean an unusual name.

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When you think about it, we've been chapcot Reuben perhaps quite a Jewish name at that time, and today, Chapcott, it's a nice feel to it.

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There's a pilot at the start which I might come back to. but when I first picked up the book I didn't, I didn't look at the time I just wanted to find out kind of who this guy was there's

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a Contents Page Childhood Preparation. Waterlane. Ed.

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Would give a Martin never heard of him. Miss Arbor who she, Ellen and Mary Emancipation Progress in Emancipation and Oxford Street.

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So we're ready. there's a sense to someone who's he's not very free, and who's got to free himself from whatever it is.

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That's plaguing him and there's a sense of someone who's come from a provincial background Water Lane, but ends up in London, and then there's most intriguing of all the first

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page which goes like this. Now that i've completed my autobiography up to the present year, I sometimes doubt whether it's right to publish it.

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Of what use is it, many persons will say, to present to the world what is mainly a record of weaknesses and failures?

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If I had any Triumphs to tell if I could show how i'd risen superior to poverty and suffering, if, in short, I were a hero of any kind whatever, I might perhaps be justified in communicating my success to

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mankind, and stimulating them to do as I have done.

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The mine is the tale of a commonplace life perplexed by many problems.

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I've never solved disturbed by many difficulties i've never just amounted, and blotted by ignoble concessions, which were constant regret.

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I've decided, however, to let the manuscript remain I will not destroy it, although I will not take the responsibility of printing it.

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Somebody may think it's worth preserving and there are 2 reasons why they may think so.

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If they're on their others in the first place it has some little historical value, for I feel increasingly every day that the race to which I belonged is fast passing away, and the dissenting minister of the present day is

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a different being altogether from the dissenting minister of 40 years ago.

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In the next place, I have observed that the man, knowing that other people have been tried as we have been tried, is a consolation to us, and that we are relieved by insurance, that our sufferings are not special and

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peculiar, but common to us. with many others I love that introduction. it's very strange, of course, first of all.

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When you look at the opening sentence here it's a great Swift, one of my favorite opening sentences to any books.

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Now that i've completed my Autobiography up to the present year, I sometimes doubt whether it's right to publish it like, Why would you start a book like that for start off with you know obviously raise a question why

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Mr. Rutherford, are you not sure whether to publish this book?

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Okay. Well, obviously, I guess if it's north bog face will be really personal, and he's a bit embarrassed about it.

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I can understand that I mean I guess a lot of us don't write our autobiographies because it's just too embarrassed about ourselves.

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Or we think we're just far, too boring which are probably, very good reasons not to publish an autobiography, but so for other foot has these doubts, but also what's weird about this one is that the

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autobiography is published so like Why, does he tell us at the start. but he wasn't sure whether we should do because it's too late now.

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It's already out there, but for some reason he does begin by saying, Well, I know you know you've got my autobiography, but a part of me which is you kind of didn't you know what I mean but then I

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also like that word. Sometimes I sometimes doubt whether it's like to publish it so.

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In other words, sometimes we feels okay about publishing it and other times when he's not sure.

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So he introduced himself by telling us in other words He's always torn by this whole writing.

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Rick Morrow really and it's value and it's worth which I like

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This isn't going to be a success story this isn't gonna be someone's rise to fame and wealth and riches.

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So if you've not got a success story I think there must be other deeper reasons for wanted to write an autobiography.

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And of course, also at the start. it's says Now I have completed my October for bug feet up up to the present year hang on a minute.

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So is this quarter biography finished or not? or not?

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Because what does the present year mean? Does that mean he's finished it up to the point in which he's publishing the book?

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Or is he gonna write any more and if it's completed. It means that this sentence was written right at the very end of yours, Bog Fee, and then tagged on the beginning, which is interesting very intriguing, and

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sets up all kinds of questions about the person who's written this, and he's he's bittering mind, as it were, but, as he said, there were 2 reasons why he wanted to publish it number one, he says it has some little

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as he said, it has some little historic value Okay, If you want to find about dissenting ministers. This is a good place for perhaps to start because they're passing away and dissenting ministers are different these

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days than they were in those days, so there's a very Well, i'd say a very niche is historical interest.

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Any dissenting ministers curiously in my research to Rutford.

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I have found that there's there's a few people who are interested in dissenting ministers, and in the history of them.

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And there are lots of history books about dissenting ministers, and i'll tell you what i'm not gonna read any of them again.

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And I was boring pieces of work i've ever i've ever come across. and I think kind of rather for partly feels that, too.

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It's of his little historic value. but then there's these other second reason in the next place I have observed the the man, knowing that other people have been tried as we have been tried, is a consolation to us I really

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warm to this kind of relationship towards reading, writing, and in fact, I would do as far as say, what better reasons are there for writing a book than to hope that it might help someone else?

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And I guess the hope that in writing about your own troubles it might be help you solve them out.

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But this is the core for this book. really reading on it obviously soon becomes clear that this man did not at any time enjoy being a dissenting minister.

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In fact, when they get by the time you get to the end of the book, he jacked it in.

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Very soon. as a young man there was a huge occupational hazard in being a dissenting minister in the middle of the nineteenth century, and that was basically he lost.

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He lost his solid belief in God and if you've got that what once that's happened I guess he found it very hard to go up into the pulpit and and preach.

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But then that raises another question If you've been trained to be a minister, and you've lost that sort of core faith, and you feel a bit of a phony in the pulpit.

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Well, then, what do you do?

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And he, his faith changed in in very gradually, and he found that he was.

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He felt a bit of a fraud in the in the pulpit, so that raises a whole problem in his life.

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What do I do now? In fact, that's also a problem with the title page of the book?

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Because it says the the title page the old bug might of you the odds bug, if you have not, rather than dissenting minister.

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But actually it should be X. X. Dissenting V.

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Minister. So there were, I love also. you know, this lovely sentence, the worst in the worst of maladies.

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Worse to me at least, those which are hypochondriacal, related to depression.

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The healing effect which is produced by the visit of a friend.

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You can simply say, I have been cured all that is most marked, and this becomes very important in in Rutherford's work.

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This need to try to work out how he can dodge his depression, how he can heal it, how he can, how he can talk about it in an open way.

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How to get through life when it's really really difficult and you've you're stuck in a career that you really don't want to do.

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There were a number of core sort of problems that he encounters in the book.

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And I just try to list a few, I mean. Where do I fit in in life? Who am I?

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Does God exist? If not, what should I do with myself? Do I matter?

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What can I do about loneliness? How do I know what I really want in life?

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Does anybody love me? Can I love anyone? Can I find a job?

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Which does not make me feel so depressed and useless.

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Okay, I mean, I guess we might be used to hearing these questions.

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Now in an age where well-being and mental health they're almost words.

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I think that sometimes need more to the the part of management.

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Speak as as as you know, that there's so much common currency on this has been so much about mental health and well-being, I mean in a really positive way.

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I think we think of nineteenth century men as quite robust, determined, positive, successful, striving people.

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I think a Brunel standing before that fantastic photograph of those change.

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You know men who change the world so it's quite courageous in many ways to find that in the heart of the nineteenth century a book came out by someone who really didn't know what to do with himself and who who suffered from

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depression and a feeling of failure. so they're all

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So I was building pre first of all he's very honest about himself. and this is a very honest story.

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What'sography at the same time. it can be very he will often skirt around problems, especially to do with love that he finds quite difficult to write about.

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I imagine it's a kind of book that was written quite late at night.

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I imagine, in Latin, is studied by a lamp it's dark.

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The rest of the family will sleep upstairs and he'd obviously reached a kind of a crisis in his life, and wrote this book.

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And of course, once you do start reading him it's it's very you become quite hooked because his voice is very direct.

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There's nothing to mediate. there's no there's no mediation between him and and our C. spay honest about the things that went wrong in his life.

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Oh, my God, it's a relief isn't it a relief to read a book with we're we're where life keeps going wrong which which invariably it often does but it those are the things that often

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don't end up in nineteenth century autobiographies.

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Okay, So there's several aspects to the way that he writes about depression

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He will often, as he recounts his life as a dissenting minister, he will tell stories of moment when he had moments when he had a nervous breakdown, and there were certain triggers to this usually

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sparked off by failures at work. having felt that he could no longer, He could no longer, with any integrity, carry on as a chapel preacher, and having realized to be honest with you that he wasn't that good good is

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it, he he thought. What else can I do and and I think perhaps a lot of people who don't know what they're going to do and if they're intellectual and they've had some degree of training, and they

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like reading. Well, you know, you become a school teacher and that's what he did.

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Fortunately he only lasted a day because he had a quite a bad nervous breakdown.

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After only one day as a school teacher. but there this awful trigger this moment of huge loneliness that he describes.

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I'll read you a little passage from his school teacher experiences is quite typical of him.

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Where are we? here? We go. I think nope I need to go back to my slide, because I've got some page numbers written there.

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Page 1, 1, 2, that's good

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He's a very eloquent writer on the subject of failure and loneliness.

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So he got a job as a school teacher he's he's already had a career crash.

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He's young he doesn't know where to fit in He's got himself in a little private school in Stoke Newton.

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It's windy it's dark he's been given He's been shown to a really shoddy little single bedset, and suddenly opening the window, looking out across London wave of depression hits him

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We passed through the school room into a kind of court, where there was a ladder standing against a trap door.

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He told me that my bedroom was up there and what I and that when I got up I could leave the ladder down or pull it up after me just as I pleased.

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I ascended, and found a little chamber, Julie furnished with a chest of drawers, bed, and washand stand.

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It was tolerably clean and decent. But who shall describe what I felt?

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I went to the window and looked out they were scattered lights here in that mocking roads, but if they cross one another and now and then stopped.

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We're building. It ceased. The effect they produced was that of bewilderment.

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No clut to it. Further off was the great light of London, like some unnatural dawn, or the illumination from a fire which could not itself be seen.

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I was overcome with the most dreadful sense of loneliness.

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I suppose it's the very essence of passion using the word in its literal sense, but no account can be given of it by the reason.

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Reflecting on what I suffered then I cannot find any solid ground for it. and yet there are not half a dozen days of my life which remain with me like that one.

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I was beside myself with a kind of terror which I cannot further explain.

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It's possible for another person to understand grief for the death of a friend.

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Bodily suffering, or any emotion which had a distinct cause.

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But how should he understand the worst of all calamities?

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The nameless dread. the influx of all vitality the ghostly, haunting horror which is so nearly akin to madness.

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It's many years ago since that evening, but while I write I am at that window still, and the yellow flare of the city is still in my eyes.

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I remember the thought of all the happy homes which lay around me, in which dwelt men who had found a position and occupation, and, above all things, affection.

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I know the causelessness of a good deal of all those panic fears and all that suffering.

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But I tremble to think how thin is the floor. on which we stand, which separates us from the bottomless abyss.

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I guess we've all had moments like that where where we where we think.

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Oh, my God, is this It What do I do now? it's just awful.

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Where's my family? Why, am I what am I doing here, and and Rutherford writes about those very, very well.

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I think perhaps a lesser writer. would have skirted I wouldn't have even bother to write about the whole school room incident, and would have said I I had a job as a school teacher, but it didn't last very

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long, but no, the moment still disturbs, Rutherford while he writes about it, and so he feels compelled to describe it, and I guess to try to understand it, even though that's very hard for him to work out how that

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became such a trigger for his depression. So there are these trigger moments in his in his books, these moments where he falls into the abyss, as it were.

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School teacher is one of them. there's something else I like about his work is that he's often told in 2 directions as a writer.

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He wants to write about his his problems and at the same time there's a big part of him the kind of wants to skirt over it, and I think that's very human, too.

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I mean, as I, as I mentioned in the first opening line.

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Now that i've completed my autobiography I sometimes doubt whether it is right to publish it right right to publish it, as if kind of what does the world want with a story of depression?

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What good is that gonna do? And he he feels that pull the the need to get it down, and the the counter need to be quiet, to not not say anything at all.

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There are moments in the book when he has dreadful times and he does meet people, and he cannot help but unburden himself and tell what he's feeling.

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So there's sentences like how it came about I do not know, but my whole story rushed to my lips, and I told her all of it with quivering voice.

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Then there's there's another there's a other that counter voice.

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I doubt i'm dude with you he'll talk about the scene.

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In fact, the the moment of the the schoolroom scene he finishes this chapter, and he says, some i'm constrained.

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Now, however, to admit that my trouble was but a bubble blown of air, and I dealt whether I've done any good but by dwelling upon it I doubt whether I really should have written it in my

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autobiography and I think that's very human too, isn't it that the whole worry about talking about our troubles, and knowing when to talk about them when to write them about them and we're not to and that

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tension is very much a part of Rutherford writing.

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He is at heart a very shy rather reserved gentleman but the book itself is like a pressure valve, and it cannot help but tell his story despite lines like you know, i'm constrained Now, however, to admit my trouble.

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Was but a bubble of blown air and I doubt whether I've done any good by dwelling upon it.

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But actually I think he has done a bit of good by dwelling upon it.

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He's made it a little bit easier for himself to understand that moment.

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I hope another important aspect, I guess in his writing is is, and another important way.

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He has no complete peers for depression in his book, man who is struggling with it.

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There is no single total cure for it but he's a man who's struggling with it, and but one of the things that's really important that it is a kind of a saving grace for other food is that he has

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friends, and these people pop up in the book at certain moments, and this is a very important theme of his writing.

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The need for a special friend, the hope that there is somebody out there who might understand us.

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Then, of course, You've got the extra trouble if do you tell how much can you share with that friend of your of your own problems?

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Of your depression the fear that you're going perhaps a little bit mad.

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But this is very important. The need to cultivate friends and the this very special role that friends can play with people who do suffer from from huge mental health problems, and there's one moment in the book in fact, where Rutherford is

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in worse things happen to him. As a story goes, he tumbles down into a dreadful abyss.

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He ends up as a he gets a job in a publishing house.

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He makes a mistake at work. it it triggers another crisis.

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He has no breakdown, he says, until I hardly.

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He decides to leave another job. His third job he leaves in this book, and he says, until i'd actually left, I hardly knew I was going, but at last I made up my mind I would go to Reuben Chapcott He advised me to

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take a bed in the house where he was staying and to consider what could be done, whether it has a friend called.

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We've been Chapcot and if you notice now that was the name that appeared on the title page of the book edited by his friend Lubin Chapcot, and at a terrible moment in the book Rutherford goes

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to Chapcott and I think that's really important that he's. He realizes that he cannot cope any more on his own, goes to his friends.

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Someone he knows will be be able to put him up for a few nights, and that, let those sentences are the only mentions we get on Ruben Chapcott in the book. don't know who he does who he is what he does Oh, actually we do know

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that he was a student friend of brotherhoods. We know that.

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So they were old friends. We just no description of him.

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All we know is someone who took Rutherford in the moment of crisis, and we also know but he's edited the book.

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This autobiography. Why would someone edit, I know, spoke Fee. well.

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The obvious reason that I could think of is if that person who wrote it is dead, and that's a kind of shadow that hovers while you read this book.

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This is a book that's written by someone who was not alive. when it was published that this is a manuscript that was left for the friend Rubin Chapcott to subsequently get into shape and give to a publishing

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house, and I think the more you read the book, the more you that that that sort of question hovers.

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What happened to Rutherford? Why, and how did it eventually get published?

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The book itself is an active friendship. The fact that Shapco must have found the manuscript, and subsequently published it for his friend.

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And you notice, I love that on the title page not edited by Google Chat, called edited by his friend.

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But that's really important isn't it that the I love the idea that a book has come about as an act of friendship.

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I guess Another important aspect, 1 one where he does sort of help and get get around.

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Depression in all moments is by allow finding moments for reflection and little moments where he can dip out at the dreadful story of dashing between jobs and and making mistakes, and falling in and out of love but actually finding

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moments where he can sit and try to sit out the deployment.

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It seems that it, that there is it's a it's a real illness, that you suffers from, and I think that was something that was not really fully recognized in the nineteenth century depression as an actual mental illness

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something that can come and go in sometimes some a bit of advice.

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If he gives, which he writes about in the book, going back to hypochondria and it's countless forms of agony, let it be born in mind. But the first thing to be aimed at is patience not to

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get excited with fears not to dread the evil which most probably will never arrive but to sit down quietly and wait.

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That's time wears on 2 muturation will be relief, for it familiarizes with what at first was strange and unsupportable.

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It shows the groundlessness of fears. and It enables us to say with each new peroxym that we've surrounded one like it before, and probably worse.

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This is something often you will often talk about in his book. but perhaps one of the most startling things that happens in terms of the things that do give you relief from depression is actually the what I call the unforseen kindness of

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strangers, people who never. And this happens, there are more rather for books, actually more rather for the books.

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With this experience off to his death, i'll tell you about that later on. but throughout his books strangers pop up people that you meet by the side of the road, or sitting down in the library.

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The people who know there's something wrong when you help him that's one of the most heartening aspects of the reading of reading weather food is that there's always the kind of hope that a belief in the kindness of

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strangers. He wrote a novel about somebody else that also appeared after his death, and the novel is called Clara Hopkood.

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I'll read you a bit where will they this is rather for the behind me here.

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Let me got to make it my God page number i've put it somewhere.

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This Clara Hopk. good so and again very unusual for a nineteenth century novel.

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There's a young woman, Madge, who becomes pregnant out of marriage.

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In. in. In fact, this book was nearly banned when it was first published.

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For that reason, and people advised you know obviously advised him not to write getting a book that nearly didn't get written interesting in it.

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The books that nearly don't get written they're the ones we most most most need to read.

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Much is becomes pregnant a fling outside of marriage.

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She runs away from how she's in a really really dreadful state.

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In fact, she finds herself sitting alone in the porch of a church.

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In fact, I found this is probably based on a real place.

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This porch in leatherhead in sorry i've sat in that porch on a rainy day, Much sits there, and suddenly an old woman comes along on a way to market.

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I believe i'll read it to you one auto morning she found herself at Leatherhead, the longest trip she'd undertaken, for there was scarcely any railways.

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Then she wondered about. So she discovered a footpath which took it to a mill pond which spread itself out into a little lake.

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It was fed by springs which burst up through the ground.

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She watched at one particular point, and saw the water boil up with such force that it cleared a space of a dozen yards in diameter.

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From every weed, and form the transparent pool just tinted with the pale as you, which is peculiar to the living fountains which break out the bottom of the chalk in about 3 quarters of an hour she

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found herself near a church larger than an ordinary village church. As she was tired, and the gate of the church porch was open, she entered and sat down.

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The sun streamed in upon her, and some sheep which had strayed into the churchyard from the adjoining open field came almost close to her unalarmed, and looked in.

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Her face. The quiet was complete. The air was so still that a yellow leaf, dropping here and there, just beginning to turn, fell quiveringly in a straight path to to the earth, sick at heart, and despairing she could not help being

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touched, and she thought to herself, How strange the world is!

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So transcendent both in glory and horror, a world capable of such scenes as those before her, a world in which, suffering as hers could be a world infinite ways She broke down on, wept.

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But there was something new in a sorrow, and it seems as if a certain pity overshadowed her.

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He barely recovered herself when she saw the woman, apparently about 50, coming towards her with a wicker basket on her arm.

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She sat down beside Madge, put up basket on the ground, and wipe her face with her apron.

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Morning, Miss , rather rot walk in and it i've come all way from Dorking.

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I'm going to great o coast there's a longest step there and back again.

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Not that this is the nearest way, but I don't like climbing them else. and then, when I get to leather Ed, I shall have a lift in a cart much felt bound to say something as the sun burnt face looked

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kind and motherly. I suppose you live in great focus. Yeah, I do. My husband.

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God bless him! He was a kind of foreman at the Towers, and when he died I was left alone, and didn't know what to be at, as both my daughters route and one married.

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So I took the general shop a great o coast, as Longwood used to add, but it don't pay, for I ain't used to it.

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The house is too big for me and there ain't nobody proper to mind it when I goes to docking for anything.

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Are you gonna leave. Well, I don't know yet. misses but I think I should live with my daughter in London.

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She's married a cabinet maker in great orange Street.

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They let lodgings, too. Maybe you know that part no I don't. You don't live in London.

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Then. Yeah, I do. I came from London this morning. The Lord have mercy on this, did you?

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Though I suppose that you are visiting here. I know most of the folks hereabouts.

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No, I'm going back this afternoon. how integrate interrogator was puzzled, and a curiosity stimulated.

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Presently she looked in magic's face my poor dear you'll excuse me. I don't mean to be forward, but I see you've been crying.

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There's somebody buried here. No, that was all she could say the walk from Leatherhead, and the excitement had been too much for her.

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She fainted. Mrs. Kaffin, for that was her name, was used to fainting fits.

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She was often a bit faint to herself, and she instantly loosened magic gown.

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What's from smelling salts and all through a little bottle of brandy and water.

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Something suddenly struck a She took up much his hand there's no waying ring on it.

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Look you now, my dear, you want no ways fit to go back to London today.

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If you was my child, you wouldn't do it for all the gold in the Indies.

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No, no, you shot now. I should have a week asleep this night, if I let you go, and if anything would have happened to you would be me as I've had to answer for it.

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And so one it's a license counter and of course, this woman, Mrs.

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Cafin becomes really important and helps match out. gives us someone to stay.

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Looks after. Well, the baby is born becomes a kind of groundmother to the baby.

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It's extraordinary and the kindness of of someone match just met by chance in the doorway of a of a church.

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And there are these moments in rather foods where somebody just does.

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Just I like that moment where Mrs. Katherine almost is is very careful, very sensitive, in talking to Matt.

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If you don't mind my noticing I I notice you've been crying Rutherford always thought it's really important that people take that first to inquire if they see someone who's in distress it's

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really really important, and that's something there are meetings in his in his books.

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Okay, the big reveal So the ot box fee was a very moving book, and one of the most moving sort of books I I read, and I guess that's another important strain to It is that you realize that writing about his

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troubles is itself been a huge relief for him and it's very much a book about writing because you notice that sometimes he doesn't want to write about his troubles, but that's one huge thing that the the the

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book, I think, Press. The most important aspect is the fact that writing this book has, it never see, been some huge relief to Rutherford.

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So I finished the autobiography. It was really moving.

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Never read any nineteenth century. not a autobiography like it before.

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And it's really the following week I was in a second-hand book shop in Tumbridge Wells, such as the excitement of my life, and I found this book on the shelf again.

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I think it was the title friends that caught my eye.

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Let us to 3 friends. This is absolutely true let us to 3 friends, and there's a faded name on the spine.

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I took it down, opened it, and this is what I saw.

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Let us to 3 friends by William Hale, White Brackets.

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Mark Brotherford, that's weird I thought Motherford was dead and here he is, supposedly as an old man.

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He looked a very interesting old man, slightly Reserves slightly the kind of expression, I would imagine Mark Rutherford might have had looks like a man who doesn't want to be photographed.

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But it's clear that what i'd encountered in the autobiography was a kind of hoax.

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It was not strictly an autography. it was an autobiographical novel, Rubin Chapcott.

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Was. Well, it was a kind of an invention that this book where it's a nord bike with a novel. That's that, Willie.

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A man called William Hell. Wright wrote, but then he wrote it in total secrecy.

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He invented a new name, Mark Rutherford. He invented an editor, so that to give some read, some to a Mecca mechanism by which this book could be published, and then the then this book appeared on the odds Bog if you

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have rather good, and people many people just had no idea who whether it was, and that actually we have hell.

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White was a a civil servant, but of course a civil servant did suffer all his life from the depression, and he wrote about it, and he could only write about it in secrecy by using a different name.

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Now that i've completed my autobiography up to the present year, I sometimes doubt whether it's right to publish it.

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He he looks when looking at his photograph. he really very much Looks like the man who who who almost doesn't want to be photographed or published.

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But is a kindly face. this is what he looked like about the time when the odds bog feet of Mark Wolf was written.

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He was born in Bedford in 1831 Ridge, Kent, in 1913.

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In fact, there's his grave which I visited many times he what's interesting, of course, about him, and the Mark Rutherford story Is that so?

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The Autobiography appeared in 1881 in this addition, only 200 of them, because the publisher thought he was gonna want to read that only 200 them. appeared.

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But then, the following year a sequel appeared. mark Rutherford's deliverance, and then a novel appeared.

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The Revolution in tanner's Lane also by Mark Rutherford, all of them edited by Ruben Chapcott.

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So he contrived, as it were, his own posthumous rebirth.

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As a writer, he made it seem as if he was with the books by a dead person already in secret.

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And the novel I read out for you just then by imagine Mrs.

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Caffeine was called clara hopk which was his last novel, and they're great and they're really moving, and they're very unusual, very experimental.

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And no one had ever been no One's really heard of him. So it you have read like Dickens and George Eliot and Mrs.

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Gaskell, and you want to find really really great, really emotional and moving, and actually really a really good writer.

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He's a good one to embark upon I know enough about Mark Rutherford to ramble on for at least another day.

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But I I've got to leave it there and I kind of want more than anything else.

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I I always think Alan de botan once said that criticism should be incitement to reading, and not a complete covering of a book.

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So i'm not going to pretend to cover all of my Rutherford.

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There's a lot more too much actually than a writing which is written about mental health.

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But if you're interested the autobiography is a good place to start, but don't tell anyone that it's a hoax, because it's much more interesting if you have to read it as if he's a

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real person which he was. There we go. Thank you. Thanks very much, Mark.

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Well, that was rather intriguing wasn't it everybody and yeah, your passion for brother Rutherford's work i'm standing through Mark I'll see but yet his books do feel very relevant today do

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don't, they you know, get a , the last couple of years.

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We all had ? particularly No. And Harvey asked a question, which is not really a question anymore.

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Because you answered it with a big deal. but in Harvey you hit the nail on the head.

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I think what Ian said was is the clear evidence that it is truly autobiographical.

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Is that any possibility that it's a form of fictionalized autobiography?

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Yeah, Obviously, yes, it's a fictionalized autobiography.

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But actually many of the elements are because i've researched William held White's life that it's based on truth.

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One of the characters in the Autobiography is a young woman actually called Teresa, and she's someone who does help Rutherford in a particularly difficult crisis.

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And actually she's in real life. George eliot so George Eliot, as a character, as a person is someone who is a character in rather for to autography.

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Elliot meant a heck of a lot to William.

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Hell white, and I think he kind of fell in love with it as a young man.

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It didn't come to anything but she's a character in the autobiography.

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So actually it's more truth than than fiction he's he's fudged a few bits and changed a few bits, but i'm it's it's it's you know it's it's

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it's so very clearly based upon his own life yeah and we, you know, in first part of the late show we just have a little bit speculation going on in the the chat about the intrigue of that first page in

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the book and i'll just read a couple of them out actually

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This from Carl. She said. maybe he was clever and knew that people would be intrigued.

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Published, the publishers would need to be drawn, and thus they'd see the others would want to know more.

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Yeah, I think the best way to start a book is to tell your readers that you're really not sure whether you want them to read it.

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And any actually it's a device he's a very clever writer.

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It's a fictional device so what would more I mean if if I started by this lecture by saying, Do you know what I really don't think I should talk about this you you really wouldn't want me to stop I

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already imagine. What is it? he doesn't want to talk about that So yeah, it's a very clever way but I think it's also true.

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I think you honestly wrote it, not not knowing if you should publish it.

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But most writers would have edited that thought out of the book. What's great about him?

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Is he kept it in he His doubts about writing a part of the story.

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And another little spec that speculation from an the book was edited by friends.

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I wonder if he was gay, which would have been a problem for him at that time?

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Yeah, I don't I don't I don't think Well, if it was gay I do think whether it was gay, cause you know he he but you know I but the same kind of spectaculation about say dh lawrence

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isn't there. there's not really any any humor autism in the in the book rated is not really it's not There's no This there's no sense of desire or sensuality within any of the male relationships They

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are friends. as far you know they they really are. and he you know he he was married twice.

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He had a, but his marriage was his real life. Marriage was very unhappy because his wife had multiple stroosis, and by the when she was 30 she was completely paralyzed.

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And so that was a very, very, and he was actually yet to look after her.

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There was a very, very tough marriage, really, and when she died he married again. Okay, interesting.

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And we've got another question here. from ron Did William Hale White publish anything under his own name?

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Yes, he did. We saw one. Yes, he did Well, Well, no, I mean the he didn't write any any of his fiction, or more personal stuff under his own name.

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But what he did do he was at the time the world's leading expert on the philosopher Spinoza, and his very first book, His very first book actually was not the autobiography He published It under his own name It

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was a translation of his favorite Philosopher He's a very philosophical writer, as you probably heard in the in some of the readings.

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His favorite philosopher was spinoza it's kind of a you know someone who's trying to establish morality without without God, without the got, without the man in the clouds is human morality possible without the God in

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the clouds. Yes, it is specific, Spinoza, and this is how it works.

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Spinoza was hugely important to Rutherford, and his first thing he published was

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A translation. He also wrote books about words with who was another hero.

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He had lots of intellectual heroes. Okay, an interesting, right which I'm gonna look through here in the chat, see?

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Oh, actually can I ask? That is one other on that question he's very, actually another book he wrote He wrote a pamphlet in which he argued for the working class to be given the vote in the 1860 S. So he was a political He was a

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Radical. He was a politically a radical writer as well, so sorry about.

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That was another one he did. then. Yeah, okay, right let's see if we get any other questions.

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I think, yeah, everybody completely intrigued. so I never digitally enjoyed it.

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Hmm! I think that's all the questions and i'm gonna send him to.

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He's got any late ones they want to to throw in there.

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Hmm, no, I think , i guess he's not the only writer who's dealt with you know depression and melancholia and all that in novels they crop up in dickens and George

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edit all the time, you know. but you yeah good, a question pop in here and from Amal would you be able to say a little bit more about the Mark Brotherford society, because obviously you're the chair and very heavily

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involved a little bit. about that Well, first of all there's there's not many people in it because cause this is really not you know that I think there's about you know there's about 30 of us because he's

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just people just don't know him to be honest with you I although i'm the chair of the weather for society.

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I didn't want I didn't want it to exist in the first place, because I kind of liked to keep it a see a bit of a I like to keep it to myself, and and I and rather than says literally societies can be very

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irritating things really with the because they once you've got a literary society.

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Oh, my God! the next thing is, you have a conference.

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You have a conference, and it becomes academic and dull.

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And then people write conference papers which i'm afraid is what happened.

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We've had conferences we've had conference papers.

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I'm not hugely into that but what we also do is we try to find, and if we try to find anything any bits of stuff that that that important that's quite like we we found a 100 letters of his recently popped up in a

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bookshop. we raise the money to buy them we've got an archive in the University of Bedford.

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We're trying to as it will look after him and that's what I feel.

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Principally, i'm trying to do is look after him because you know he's not like dickens. There's not a not a you know. It's not he's not as well, known so he needs looking after but actually we

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have had. We have had a couple of good a couple of good conferences.

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I've got a link i'll i'll first we can arrange in some way to give you.

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There's a link. if you look up Mark relevant society you'll, you'll see it, and it'll tell you much more about him.

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Yeah, What we can do is once we get the recording of the lecture up onto the members area of the website. We can maybe Mark post up a document that's maybe got some useful links makes me Wonder what you wouldn't have

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done if you had it stumbled across I Oh, I think i'd be a lot, I mean, I think I don't. I don't know.

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I think i'd be it's been such a pain to me over the years.

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It's been such a pain to me because if you've got if you've got if dickens is your expertise, you've got instant status in the world of Victorian literature, or if if George Eliot

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gives you so much intellectual status mark Ratherford you know a failure.

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Who worries, the worries about depression it's it's It's been a really hard one I could get in the academic world, too, to get people really interested sometimes.

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I I i've what was your question again what would you have done with your life.

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If you hadn't stumbled across the box I think I would not have that's important.

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I think I don't know I have a thought about it I mean he's he's been a pain in so many ways.

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But it's like asking you it's like the sort of quit to me has been a kind of a friend to be honest with you, so it's like asking yourself what would it be like if I had not met this person life would not have been so

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good because he's become a he's become a friend do you know what I mean?

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He has, although he's dead but he's still a presence in my life that I really greatly value almost like a kind of a a relative a grandfather I figure so yeah, Okay, do you want to just take

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that down off , i'm just wanting to just double check the chat again quickly, just in case we've got anything else.

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I don't think we do actually I think I think that's us for today.

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Everybody, and what an intriguing story that was!

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Thank you, Fiona, and hopefully, you will not if you can hear what I'm saying.

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I think she can Okay, Okay, it's a delight for me to be here today to give you the what I think are the amazing art works on the London underground, and clearly we'll only have a chance to have a little bit of a

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taster today, within the hour that we have but we'll try and pick out some of the best

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The crucial thing about the arts of the underground is that anybody should be able to see it.

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In general it's behind you Unfortunately, as you wait for the train. it's on the platform wall behind, you so a lot of people can travel for a whole career.

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Never turn around and never appreciate all of the investment that's gone in to make it a more interesting place.

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But here I will explain to you as we go through it what the art works that we're covering mean, and it's usually about history or major events.

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Major personalities. So without more ado, I will just share my screen.

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So you can actually see some of the great artworks

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Right. and as you can see hopefully we're gonna start at latent stone station, not the premier station of the whole of the underground. I'm just moving a few things around while so that.

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I can make sure. I can see all of the screen.

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And just a little bit more. Okay, So let's ask see?

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See exactly what we're going to talk about walking to Isolation Stone Station.

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One fine sunny day you may think that you're seeing advertising posters on the size of the of the walls of the entrance, which is the normal expectation.

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But latent stone is celebrating the great works of film.

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Director, Alfred Hitchcock, on his sanctuary in 1999 clearly are well.

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After he died they decided to mark their local hero by putting a gallery of mosaics of his life, and works all over the station much better there than in some little visited gallery or museum.

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So this is what you can see on the left hand side a screen, a shot of Henry Fonder.

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You may recognize him with Alfred Hitchcock in the back on the right hand side.

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You can see if I still, from rebecca potentially his most famous film of all, i'm enlarging the mosaic of Rebecca, you see a lot of works gone into this from a local

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workshop, and this scene has Judith Anderson on the right hand side, as the housekeeper of Mandela, the mansion in which the to winter family lives.

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She is trying to persuade the second Mrs. de Winter to jump out of the window, because she in no way way compares with the first. Mrs.

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De winter. These mosaics have a bit of a local touch route for Hitchcock as well.

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So, instead of seeing Mandela the home of the winters in Cornwall, in the background, we see a chart. St.

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John's church in Latin stone so the designers here. have had a bit of fun which is the case in many of the artworks.

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Let's move on to another scene. probably the most famous of all the stills from all of his films psycho.

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And here we have poor Janet Lee in the shower, with

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Anthony Perkins behind, just ready to strike, and despite that, the courageous Alfred Hitchcock is standing there in the shower with the naked Janet.

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Lee so a scene note Nobody see who's seen the film will ever forget.

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So this is the 17 of those mosaics cover the walls of the Tube station.

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3 of them relate to scenes in Hitchcock to life.

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The other 14 are his most famous films. jump across London to West London, to South Kensington, and here, rather subliminally, I went past these artworks many times on the train.

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Never noticed them, because it's the the yellow or the sandy color almost disappears.

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But here at South Kensington, we have an exhibition of pictures of the way and extinct animals celebrated in the Natural History Museum, just up the road.

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Yeah, you've no doubt recognized the dodo last seen in 1662, and apart from the picture of the dodo, we have some patterning which reflects the terracotta patterning on the outside of the

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Museum, so a few elements from the institution altogether on the platform.

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And how did Mary Wooden, a young Rca. student, who won the design competition run by transport for London at the time?

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How did she select her animals? Well, this is the main entrance on the Cromwell road to the Natural History Museum, and you can see above the 2 arches of the entrance and exit.

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You can see the animals in sculpture a row of 5 of them.

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In this case. Well, if you look wider than that so the 2 wings of the buildings, you'll see sculptures of animals all over the building, especially on every pinnacle, on this classical Come, gothic structure, and

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so she's taken them. the if you look at the animals in the left wing that those are all in rare animals on the right wing, looking here you they're all extinct.

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So this is possibly a amazing design of the building here by Alfred Waterhouse, the famous architect for Nice to Town Hall, City Hall.

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Amongst other things, and probably the other random example i've chosen is because most people will point to it.

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If you've asked them about art on the Underground Byeker Street, famous for Sherlock Holmes.

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Yeah, we have 2 profiles of homes who are almost guarding the beat.

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The London underground round, or with baker Street. So everywhere on the platforms on the backend line that there's a roundable you will see those 2 profiles of Sherlock Holmes and the typical of the

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kind of innovation and interest that the artists took in all of these artworks.

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If you look very carefully at the profiles you'll see they're made up of pixels like in a good old fashioned newspaper.

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What are those pixels? Well, let's look at the pipes here?

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The pixels are themselves the same profile of show up code, and you'll see these profiles in both black and red, scattered around the platform and in the tunnels leading to it so typical adopt a

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theme for a station, and then use that theme to decorate many parts of it.

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So those are 3 random examples. i've given you but what I want to do now is get a bit more orderly.

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I want to take a take a trip with you up the northern line from Waterloo.

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At the bottom of the screen up to Mornington Crescent, just the other side of Houston.

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At the top of the screen. i've used that kind of Harry Beck style that is on the famous London underground.

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Mac. Yeah, to show our progress and we're going from south to North from this famous line there's many people refer to this as the misery line.

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It's the oldest steep on the ground line in the world.

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It's showing is age in many respects but perhaps to compensate for that and the crowding on this particular line.

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It has been well population with ours, and every every one of these stations that we see here apart from Goose Street, has amazing art instructions.

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So starting, and Waterloo above the escalators you may know. just certainly the passengers going down.

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The escalators Don't change you have noticed you will see an elephant seems to have wrapped its body round its body through through the brick work.

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That very thick wall. with the pillar coming down between the 2 arches.

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What on earth is that elephant doing standing there? Could it run a mock at any stage?

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This is the big question. Well, let's take a closer look at it.

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It is made of a metal grid it's not alive.

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It is a mobile pretty much life size. and basically this model was created around about 2,000 by an artist called Kendra Haste check to celebrate the previous role of the Tower of London as the Keeper of

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the animals of London Zoo, when it was the royal zoom, and it was called the Town Managerie.

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Eventually in 1832, The crown gave these the the rights for the Zoom and these live animals to to the city of London and Regents Park.

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Zoom was created but In the year 2,000, they decided.

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The authorities decided to set up a replica of the zoom in the Moach of the Tower of London.

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Composed of models of all sorts of animals, and when that exhibition finished they put the models up for sale and Waterloo.

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Grant the elephants. Why? Because in Lambda, right next to Waterloo there was in the 18 hundreds the first circus ring in the world with performing elephants and other animals, and so elephants have a particular resonance for the

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history of Waterloo, and the history of the Lambus

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Then we will take one stop at a time We'll go north from Waterloo, underneath the river Thames, and come to Embankment Tube Station, which, by definition, it lies on the Embankment built in

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Victorian times, and when the train pulls into Embankments station on one of the deep platforms we are but almost blinded by the bright white of the victories and animal panels that close the the platform and the running

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lines. So here the northern line has this bright white covering on all of the walls.

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But isn't just playing right it's red blue and black and you wonder I wonder what this is all about?

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It. Certainly a lot of a lot of the stations seem to be very dark underground.

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This is absolutely not the case for the embankment, but this design is is carried across all of the platforms of this station, so it clearly has some key reference, and if you go to a passageway halfway between the deep platforms and

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the subsurface platforms. you will find yeah a display which brings together a whole set of other colors as well. green and yellow, just being added to the colors we've already seen.

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Here you can see how some of the work A. of the underground, The arch of the underground is signed and dated bottom.

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Right of this slide, Robin Denny in 1985, not 1,988.

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So I got in the past in the panel at the top.

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So this is a work of art by a very reputable artist, one of the young British artists of the time.

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But what is it about? What is it embankment about?

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Well, it was built to provide a roadway going east west through London.

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London was 2 over built to provide any kind of boole of all East West.

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The embankment was put in place for that purpose and it's also put in place to create a sewer that would intersect all of the sewage that comes from North London, and was hitherto dumped in

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the tents. So let's have a look from a v view a map from above.

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What is the situation of the Embankment? And here you see the river chams weeping around in that big arc.

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The big red blob top left is in Bankman Tube station that we're studying, and just to the north of it is Charing Cross and 4 underground lines going through in Bank Link.

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2 of them, which are going east, west, and 2 roughly north south, and that dotted gray line going around the north bank of the Thames, is the track of the intersect sewer, which mainly cured the

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horrific conditions and smell of the Thames in early Victorian times.

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So would Robin Denny create an artwork that was depicting sewage.

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Well, no, you may know the colors here, that turk or other correlate with the colors on the pattern that he's created on the walls.

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The range. not the red it's a ready brown the black the yellow, and the green.

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So if we go back to the platform in particular to that passageway with all of the colors, the black represents a northern line, the brown, the bakeroo, the green the district line, the yellow the circle line so add to that to add a bit more pizza he's added

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red for the trains for the cars. Originally it was mandated that all underground trains should be read clearly.

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Silver has prompted in a number of cases in the blue.

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The excuse for the blue is the river flowing by just outside these walls, so that's the clue Robin Denny's playing again with the colors of the underground lines as in Harry That's famous map and

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Then we come to Charing Cross and Charing Cross Vise, with Top and Court Road, as being the most exceptional for arts, with 2 major art installations, and the first, one if anybody says the walls of the underground are just

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full of adverts, point them at Charing Cross and the northern line.

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Here we have something which is. It was like a bayer tapestry.

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Feverish activity, creating something, and you may not be surprised to know we're creating here the cross but charing 1294.

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So it's over 200 years after the battle of Hastings celebrated in with via tapestry.

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But still a very ancient scene, and this is a woodcut prints that is being blown up to the size to fit the platform.

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All is one of the images on that scroll. scroll.

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They're all painted by David gentlemen one of the leading illustrators of London.

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For the past. Well, probably 70 years now. So on the right we see King Edward the First, with the one male of his surviving children, and who became a king of the second.

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Yeah, he's a chain and on the left hand side. We see a carver, a sculptor, who is chipping away at the stone to create a statue of King of the first wife.

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It was dyed tragically on a passage that she was taking through England, and he decided to have a crosses installed at every place where her body rested on its way back from Lincoln.

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Where she died. Just imagine how this carver, who we understand, is either Alexander Rabbit or John with cough.

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This being painted this this scene taking place just after she died, hey?

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That's the challenge of actually making this sculpture into the most beautiful woman in the world.

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But of reasonable likeness of Queen. And so this is an Ln.

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Across. And now, clearly, the location of this last of the crosses is charing across the cross in the district of Chari, in London,

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They're all want 3 others of the involved There are 3 original crosses still standing here on the left.

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We have Gettington cross, which is a third of the way home from Lincoln.

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All of those other crosses with the red dots have gone.

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But as we get towards London, Wolf and cross, that is an Ellen across, and that is essentially as created in 1294, well worth visiting when he when they got to London with the with the coffin they

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stopped to cheat side overnight, and then came through to the west.

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So the palace of Whitehall charing and they I don't know whether it's true, but they're supposed to stop just outside the Palace at channeling Now the Charing cross you may say it's still

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there. Well, no, it was destroyed, and then, rebuilt by the railway company in, wanted to use across as a symbol of the respectability of their station on their line.

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So here the old fated cross of Charing. This is an illustration with one of the passages of Charing Cross now sadly closed.

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But you can see the Puritans tearing down the cross after an ordinance of being passed, that the Parliamentary Committee for the demolition of monuments, a superstition on a dollar.

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3 it. they. They determined that this should be taken down

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This aerial view of the area at the bottom the photo shows to found the swear.

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You may make out nelson's column with Nelson on top, and then above that heading heading south.

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We've got the white hole going down to the top right towards Guards Parade.

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Now at the bottom the yellow arrow points to where the original Charing Cross stood.

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Replaced after the restitution of the monarchy, by Charles the Second, with an equestrian statue of his father.

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Sadly on that course. He is looking down White Hall to the Banqueting House.

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The top arrows, pointing to the bank. quitting house which was, where just outside.

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Charles the First had his head cut off so for the rest of time. Charles the First is having to look at where he was quite ironic.

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We've seen one major art installation and charing cross, the other is on the Baker blue line platforms, and reflects the fact that these platforms are underneath to how the spare itself and the national gallery and we

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take copies of the great works of the gallery to decorate the platforms, so you can enjoy the art without even having to go up the surface and into the gap.

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I just really on the platform they show you the facade of the 2 museums, in case you're in any confusion as to where you are, and imagine stepping out of a car on the underground on the

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Bakeroo line to be confronted by this picture.

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This is Venus on the left. This is Mars, the god of war.

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On the right, and between them you see some phones who are carrying away the lance of the god of war with Mars, the picture being depicted here by Sandra Boticelli is Venus, who offered her Favors

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too many gentlemen of mythical in mythical times.

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She spent a lot of time with Mars, and not so much time with her husband, and here they spend a wonderful night together.

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Unfortunately, Mars has fallen asleep from his labors, and Venus is distinctly unimpressed.

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So quite a comic scene, really, from the days of mess.

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By this famous artist, who's other work includes works on the on the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

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One of the early office of the Renaissance, even though it was pounding ricello.

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And here, in a rather simplified version of the painting above, we have the battle of San Romano as ever Florence was fighting.

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Wars constantly with Sienna it's main local rival neighbors always seem to fall

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We have to ventures in the National Gallery. This cartoon, which Da Vinci never actually translated, transferred into a full scale oil painting buttons.

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This was still was just under a 1 million pounds when we acquired it in 1962.

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So something a work of which the gallery is very proud.

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Quite rightly, and then we've seen a renaissance gallery, as part of the platform.

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Now we also see some later works and let's go here a section of his work, the upper Reaches of the Grand Canal, and quite interestingly, these aren't tourist John Dollars.

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These are working, gone through in the middle

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On here what should be a fierce tiger, but actually looks like a rather playful tiger in a tropical steam storm by the post Impressionist French artist on re research this when you see the full painting on the walls of

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the gallery is is somewhat more vital and vibrant, but still this is a shocking site to greet you as you step onto the platform

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And then we take some work from the National Portrait Gallery.

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In particular, we focus on the Tutor Gallery, which is on, I think, the second floor of the national portrait.

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Okay. So here in the Tuba Gallery, they have collected the best contemporary works of art which, by definition, give the best idea of what these figures actually look like.

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Here on on the wall. we've taken what were various sizes of paintings, many of them much smaller, and change them, resize them into this standard presentation.

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So it does give a much more coherent picture of the great personities of the Tudor era.

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And in particular, you look yeah, on the right here from the middle of the right, Henry the Seventh, and Richard the Third.

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These 2 great rivals, and the battle of Boswell Field really determined the outcome.

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For many centuries afterwards, of the monarchy, Richard the Third killed in the battle, and Henry the Seventh triumphant, and starting the Tudor rain.

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This: Yeah,

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Another example from the platform wall. a good comparison, really.

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And Berlin on the left, Lady Mary on the right, and

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It was one of the typical pictures really of a daughter a stepdaughter and a stepmother.

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We didn't exactly get on Lady Mary became Queen Mary the first seems to have that set resolve expression on her face.

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A very determined lady, so very much representative of her role in history. I'm.

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Getting away from the Tudors and the monarchs a little bit clearly.

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Here we have the gunpowder plaus of 16 o 5.

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Wishing to get rid of the particular monet James the first It wasn't doing enough to receive the Catholic faith.

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This picture is taken from a 4 inches by 6 inches.

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Yeah, which is on display in the gallery itself. So a very small display from a news sheet that was produced at the time, and I think this is a game one of the best representations of the real life characters that You see

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here. One of the delights, unfortunately, of the 2 of the arts is that it is sitting on working platforms and at one stage London underground put bitter baskets along the walls.

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And then, because of the terrorists right, decided to take them away.

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So on the right here you can see a white plaque covering the holes and not quite covering the words from litter, or maybe is a reflection of the people

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So moving on less to square centre of the entertainment world.

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In particular the film world. and here, on the piccadilly line, we pop across that for now travel on the northern, you'll see a plane bit of wall as a platform wall.

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But it is set out like part of a film strip, with pocket holes at the top.

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On the bottom either side of the film I'm being the biggest any line. the blue line on the Mac this procket holes are in blue scripts by the side of the real engines and by the ancients and

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the exits from the platform. we have This kind of arch which, gives you an insight into what you'll see above coming to see a film or walk around the West End.

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The bright knee on lights and the dark blue sky above.

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Of this great world of entertainment above so that's the picaddy line the northern line.

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Now we're traversing we have the same sprocket whole arrangement chop and bottom.

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But here in black to the normal line, and appropriately, we have adverts for films in within the zoom the budget of the film strip and the entrance is an exit.

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Here have a deco procedure marches, as you would find in the local cinemas, especially the Odion.

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So a very garish they kind of projection here

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On call road. Advise with charing crosses the start of this show this evening, and let's have a look at the kind of thing that we will see if you go down to the bottom of the escalators towards the central line

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you'll be confronted by this predominantly white wall with mosaic tiles all over it, and mosaic patterns in parts of it.

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So we have a butterfly that we have some fairly abstract pattern, and as we look through, we look through what looks like a round room to the passageway to the platform beyond.

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What's this all about? These are the works of Eduardo, pal? not see the foremost sculpture in England after the war, and very much.

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His his major work, I think, in London is in the 4 course of British Library, and it is a statue of eyes of Newton.

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But here another famous of his many works, not a famous one.

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And if we go into that circular room which is referred to as the rotunda, it happens to be just an old lift shaft, not used anymore.

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But we see this platform of mosaic pictures and here representative of some of the things you'd see on this site over the past centuries, like the cow on the farm that was here more recently a nineteen-six is style

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young man striding along and towards Carniv. Street potentially on the other side of the road.

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Chamber. we'll see some even more interesting images on the left hand side.

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We'll see the sputnik the Russian satellite, the first series of Russian Satellites on the right.

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We'll see the chicken from the farm We mentioned earlier, and how lots he has signed his work there on the bottom right of the image.

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I'm showing 1984

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The Sputnik 2 satellite, 1957 that we just seen in the rotunda.

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Yeah, I just blowing up the painting together closer.

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Look at it, with sun shields. His power shields either side, but perhaps more romantically.

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We see like a you know, that yellow circle, the box to higher it.

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Unlike it was the dog that the Russians put up there to see whether or not life could be sustained.

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At the time the story was, and it did survive for 7 days.

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There was no plan to get it back sadly now. we think that was a bit of Russian propaganda, and he died within 4 h.

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I'll take off. So here is that one of the bright chicken, which seems to have some mechanical innards to it.

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So now let's see playing with the structure this creature but now let's look at the platforms and cells on the central line.

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The platforms are this a part of the platforms. A central plants are covered in normal zones, very bright on the central line side. less so on the northern line, and

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It is quite an amazing display. in particular. some of the objects are quite easy to diagnose.

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Here we have saxophones, and they represent Tin Pan Alley, which is the music district of London, just above

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Yeah. Another view of the same platform showing how the mosaics go right up to the top of the vault.

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The top of the tunnel, so it's an amazing scale of work that was done here.

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Other pictures I tend to see. This is an an image which would be saved from the beetles.

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A yellow submarine, and the kind of Monty part python style of representation, intention.

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And here parallel, she has chosen a design of an African mask.

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Again as an excuse for a brightly colored display on the platform wall.

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Yeah, in Chopin Court Road, all in line.

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We see, as I say, rather muted colors from this rather vicious a lime green.

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But this is all totally abstract. so maybe not as interesting assessing detail.

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And when we look down the platform in this particular point, we can also see passageway between the 2 platforms of the northern line, which has a pure black and white display in it, with my zones

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Absolute shot wave went through the world of London culture and i'm not i'm, not over emphasizing the situation when with the building of cross rail going through very close to the within inches of these platform tunnels

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let's see that these particular platforms would have to be straight back to their to their core, and all of these mosaics would be lost.

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Huge protests from the literatureology, the culture of the country of the London.

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But in particular, and in the end transfer for them, then spent 1.3 million, taking all of these off tile by tile, Tester Ii.

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And then cleaning them up and putting them back again

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And then we've looked at the middle level of the passageways and the rotten, the platforms and cells.

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But coming back up to the surface with Crosswell, we have a complete expanded station, with entrances like this on top and court load, all to a daycore defined by Daniel Buren, one of the chop

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artists from France. for doing this kind of style. Work is kind of decor, so very simple. Black and white.

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Stripes and circles, and damonds, or other geometric shapes?

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Is this: Would you recognize? This is Daniel Bureau If you knew his work?

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You absolutely would. This is Daniel buren's work at the Paneling Royal in Paris, right next to the Louvre, you see, is installed even more columns, so I add to the columns of this

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ancient building, and you've covered these columns with the black and white strip stones.

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These are not chunks of Black Ball Rock. These are meant to be a respectful but additional feature.

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So this hold the area of colonies. Here, on the central line and crossroad rails side of the station, we have a rather more colorful set of geometric shapes, so which I think really brings alive.

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What would previously being very confined, and dark spaces and under Charing crossroad between those 2 entrances, there's now a vast concourse where they even have a little display case on the right it's not

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a display case from the crucial salts. This is a display case for the designs of Daniel Buren.

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You must be laughing all the way to the bank with the with the money he would adopt from this commission.

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Or in street, is now next stop. Warren was the name of a famous lady who lived there.

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But when we come to art we don't necessarily have to have pictures depicting the figure not very famous, why don't we have a play on loads, as we often do on the Victoria line?

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Yeah, Victoria on platforms. And basically, apart from having a rabbit warrant, we have amazed the traditional maze in 3 seat recess on the platforms, and more cunningness on the part of the

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artist design to be a 4 min puzzle.

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Thanks for me just to solve your way to find your way from the to the center.

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Trains come in every 2 min, so unless you want to let trains go by.

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You'll never be able to solve this puzzle

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Strangely give them. The London underground spain an enormous amount of money and advertising on convincing is all enabling.

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It's also navigate easily around the underground the map to the signage, and so forth.

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They love art, which shows mazes and labyrinth.

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So in 2,000 1,350 years of the London underground, they decide to get, not volunteer.

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Another famous young British artist to produce 270 different labyrinths, only 2 foot by 2 feet panel.

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And so there's one of these on every station, in the network The number one station here is in chess, and they're all numbered, as you see bottom right on the tablet, one out of 270 thanks the obvious

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question with what the last one, and it is on the last one built. he's throw terminal 5 before we get into the new generation.

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Now further stations, and I don't think they're going to carry the labyrinth forward.

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And all these numbers just chronological. No, these are numbered in the sequence.

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That is the optimum sequence to trying to break the record.

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The Guinness World record, traveling through every station of the Underground in the minimum time, something like 16 h.

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So be guided by the numbers, if you're going to take tackle that particular record, and you can share with the picture of all the platform.

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And the access points to the platform that's the typical quite difficult to find.

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Sometimes scale and location of the labyrinth, and then we come to Houston, the main line station, and a very busy underground station beneath.

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And here, going down to we on the Northern line platforms, and we have this rather spectacular set of colors.

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Any authentic. Yes, yes, I think this is.

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This is using the Pete Mondrian styling of blocks of color as modern arts.

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You may have been but the colors and these blue and white battles, diagonals the meaning of them is I'm absolutely important to the reason for that being here.

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These are the colors of a coach of arms, a royal coat of arms.

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Henry Charles Fitz Roy. he became the Earl of Houston, and hence the naming of the station.

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Here. he's not the only name fitz roy He was given land around the station, but before the station existed.

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Clearly. This is the time of Charles the Second, which is now called Fitzerovia.

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So you see how these names all tie together. This blue and white bachelor was interesting.

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The bill. My baton basically says this may be a royal coat of arms, but this is an illegitimate successor and illuminate member of the family.

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Charles a Second had no legitimate children. and therefore, all of his many children from many mistresses. We're given this styling on their arms.

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No something to be not a slur on the character of the gentleman in the days of Charles the Second.

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Anything goes in those days, and here it's interesting just to follow that theme through a little bit.

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So, Charles a Second. on the left we have his favorite mysteries.

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Barbara Villiers on the right, who was herself given various titles, and then in the picture in the middle we have Henry Charles F.

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Roy was given lines in the estate of Houston, in the village of Houston, just south of Cambridge.

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That's where the name Houston comes from Bob Ravilius is interesting.

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She was given the title Duchess of Cleveland, and as part of Marriages, but she was also called Baroness Non.

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Such, which is quite interesting, because later in their relationship, when the gambling debts of Barbara Villas were getting beyond countenance, Charles the Second gave her non such palace a great palace in yep some which he had

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to get had built by Henry the Eighth. so

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This palace was given to to bob rebellious i've heard by a gambling dance, and then she couldn't sell the palace, so she knocked it down and sold the contents and cold fairness, non

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such because of that time. So this area you could call a baroness hard out very much a coloration to the figure in Cinderella.

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So. from all of that story we do at least have a very beautifully and brightly licked and colored platform.

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After our long journeys from the North into Houston, and traveling almost the other great art work at Houston Bridge on work in my terms.

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Is that very simple diagram you can see of the Houston Arch, a great arch.

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We used to form the entrance to Houston station, but was cruelly, and in my terms criminally destroyed.

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In a modernization program when they rebuilt the Houston station in the 19 sixtys.

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Why is that so horrible a thing to happen i'm sure many of you know the story?

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But first of all, why why have this kind of arch at the entrance to Houston?

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Well, they decided to copy the entrance to the Acropolis in ancient Greece.

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In these days. The entrance you can see at the bottom here, called the propellant

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These days it's lost in ruth and various other parts of it.

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But basically it looked like the Houston arch. rather more complicated and rather deeper set.

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But this is the design of a Purple am but it's the entrance from the Egyptian, sorry from the Greek origin.

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Original version to a sacred place, and why would you still be called a sacred place?

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Well, it's the first main line station in the capital city in the world.

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So if that isn't worth celebrating mornings and here was a rather sign on up cleared view. all they used to Arch when it was first built.

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1839. These are very early days and the door account she's in the middle as you see it doesn't actually have arches.

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It has that flat so top to it, with then a pediment above.

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Pavilions on the side for doing various functional tasks, and between the columns the arms.

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You can see the railway building and both beyond so I absolutely grand entrance to this famous innovative a bit of modern industry.

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I'm when it was deemed that the rebuilding of Houston would not need for it to be pulled down, because now it'd be halfway down platform.

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6. they move the whole station when they modernized it the protests that we weren't saving it.

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If, if by moving it fine. Benjamin was saying that the British Constitution collapsed.

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If we were so careless and salute, lose such a great asset?

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Have No; The great architectural critic after the war of England is word sublime.

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Proud as grandiose. Is anything the Greeks the company?

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Yeah. but clearly the competitors of the line out of Houston.

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Were pretty scathing the great Western Row I costly offensive, full of pretension, and who's done all of that Gothic work in the House of Parliament and elsewhere.

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Hey, look to go of this travels and swift, and and saw it as a scene from Rob Digg. thing.

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Nag uproar, making people feel like ants.

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Anyway. the yeah, the arch was destroyed a other countries. don't seem to get rid of their great monuments.

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Yeah, but Berlin is in particular treasure the propellant.

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You see the similarities here to the proper am of the Eternal.

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And despite everything that happens in Berlin over the past 200 plus years that is still revered, and everywhere it is the iconic gamble of both.

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In. we conclude our trip up the northern line at Mornington.

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Present, which, for many a reason, is somewhere my treasure

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We'll see a couple of the reasons why when we look at the the surrounds.

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The station, because here we have a big Bjou little station, one of the smallest stations in Central London on the left hand side.

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One of those 7 bunch look across the road.

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The Hampshire road. From there, on the right hand side, you see a very strange building, which looks a bit like like an Egyptian art decade temple, and is absolutely models on that type of building.

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It is a cigarette factory, the career as factory as built, and that factory replaced a set of gardens.

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That tree is one of one of the few salutations to the original, peaceful scene here, with a beautiful set of gardens on the right hand side.

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So what is the story? Well, morning, to increase this is part of Mornington.

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Presence. it's behind what is now the career as factory which is now called Greater London House, is an office building, a very sumptuous one.

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But Mornington Crescent is still there, the present of Georgian houses.

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In 4 h which go around the great be making one great arch around the back of that factory building.

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Bills in the 18 twenties i'm facing onto this beautiful garden, with its trees and its grass

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It wasn't quite a high profile presence of georgetown houses, a very, very smart place to live, and you can see some of the decoration here.

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The rustication of this ground floor with the stuck of

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The railings in front of it. go up to the first floor, the piano noble A.

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And we have some beautiful roles, iron, a standard pattern that goes right around all 4 sections of the crescent.

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So this was a very fine place to live through the Victorian period.

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Until we comes to the twentieth century, when suddenly, bang!

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On top of the gardens we find this huge factory, which completely dwarfs and obliterates the view of the crescent of Georgian houses.

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With this yellow line, and, as you can see, they are looking at the back of a factory building.

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No, no, Egypt should not deco styling.

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Here we leave that to the main facade where we're proclaiming, Oh, hello! Artistic and culture!

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We are as a cigarette company so what happens let's have a look at the sequence of events.

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Yeah, what I call stages of blind of this area. So if you look on the right hand side in yellow.

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I've got a little block with 1 1822, which is when the present started to be built in sections, and then it sits there looking across these gardens and the gardens beyond with that number 5 on them

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living there quite happily. Well, actually, only for 15 years, because bottom right?

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Event Number 2, 1837, the building of Houston, and the lines coming out of Houston, solving some of the back gardens of the Creation, and we have state engines belching spoke smoke across the back gardens

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of the buildings. Here the questions, Linda, and item, 3 top left hand corner.

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We have the arrival of that little Oxford Ring Tube station which no doubt was one of the attractions for building a factory.

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Here. people will be able to come here to work. And they did from all across London, using the tube network.

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I should number 4 event number 4 in 1928.

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The owner of the free hold of the gardens, fed up with the residents of the present.

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Not the Jews for the lease and the use of the gardens.

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And he said, right i'm gonna sell them thank you Anyway, with the money, and this building was constructed huge out pouring of anger across London a bit like the destruction of the power.

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See new mosaics and such an outcry.

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Questions in the house. in 1931 up, an act was passed which protected 100 other squares and presence in London.

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So mornings and crescent died, such that all of those other green spaces in London could survive flourish.

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Launching the Shangaan. Possibly, but the owners, no doubt many of them would have been looking to sell them for a nice profit.

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So a side story. But Let's just as we come towards the end of this, sure from Waterloo up to mornings and present that at least celebrate the finest art deco building in London.

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Even finer to me than on the Western Avenue or the Hoover.

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The old Hoover factory. This is such a beautiful rendition, and well care for rendition of Egyptian or deco.

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From that curves concave con corners at the top through to the black cat.

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It's a symbol of the Careers company it's the image taking through into one of its major brands the columns decorated in Egyptian plants with papyrus, and so forth, and various

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pipe colors of patterns of typing on the entrance on the left hand side, and to the Egyptian feline goddesses guarding the entrance.

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You may just be able to see that

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So we come to the end of our session today.

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This is a chip of the iceberg.

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It does. take me 20 h on my main course on The art of the London underground, and we cover many many parts of London's history, and the famous people that are passed through this great city.

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You may well be able to guess. This is heathron terminals.

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1, 2, 3, which was the home of Concord, and these are Concord tail things.

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But so with that with that I will conclude and so my sharing the screen such that we can feel any questions may have arisen, and I hope you aren't giddy from that very rapid tour Thank

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you very much, Mike. That was brilliant okay, i'm just gonna launch into some questions. So now people want to keep them coming in for the time being. That's great.

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No, i'm gonna start from the top no there was one question we back when you were talking about the Eleanor crosses, and we have a a question from Helen.

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She had always thought that Queen Elena died in Harvey, which is a small village in Nottinghamshire.

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There is a chantry chapel that was built there and a primary school called the Eleanor School.

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I don't know whether that's something that you know anything about

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No, it's not. Perhaps I haven't gone back enough in in terms of my researches.

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But I will certainly look at that, and thank you very much for that.

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. good, interesting, Okay, great. Now let's have a look. No, he was quite an important question, and this couple of comments to sort of supplement it as well.

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And questions from Francesca are there any art works by female artists on the line or elsewhere in the network.

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And We've got a couple of comments, and I think Lisa saying, hold on seconds. No, elizabeth.

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Nope, Nope, Lisa. She thinks this one, and by have a Phillipson somewhere on the network.

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And Chris suggesting that there is some tracy eman aren't work at some pointress.

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Yes, let me go through that there's a there's a large number.

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Okay. works by women. Why, women artists. We saw Kensington with the animals there when

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Mary Wooden was a young Rca student but one artist i'm just starting for a name has done 3 or 4, including Finsbury Park balloons floating down the platform which is

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an amazing creation. and to me represents reflects the fact that the first manned flight took place from Finsbury, and by balloon, by how hydrogen balloon in in 1794 so

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There are a number of other ladies, especially in the 1980 S.

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And ninetys. There was some quite large programs of work done on art, and a lot of the artists were women.

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So yeah, they are well represented in this work. Okay, Tracy, I mean.

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Yes, she's done some have a her neon writing all over the the main engine sheet.

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Oh, by the clock at the end of some bank was station I don't think she's done anything on the underground.

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Okay, right. no, we've got no question this is maybe quite a difficult one for you.

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Which is your favorite station You've got quite a lot to choose from

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That is, from Catalan. she's asking my favorite station is probably Tom and Court Road.

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Because we have one of england's greatest artists on on the platform levels.

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We have one of France's greatest awesome design designers now in the new cross rail, and and clearly it's been expanded vastly. so.

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Now it is a fabulous station to use, whereas in the old days you know, it was pretty pretty tough, and the getting very, very tired.

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But but I think Sharon Cross runs it a close second.

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Okay, Alright, let me have a little look see if we have any other questions, cause I think I think everybody's been so fascinated by what you've been showing them today that we don't have huge numbers. of questions.

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But let me have a little look. Lots of those comments that i'm going to pass on to tomorrow, mike and interesting comments.

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Oh, this is quite an interesting one. Comment actually rather than the question that's just come in.

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But maybe something that you're able to maybe talk a little bit about in terms of cocktail and Court Roads and Jacqueline saying that this story a theater was demolished to make way for the expansion of the station

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there I don't know if that's something that you you have some knowledge about.

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Yes, totally, and the whole city block was destroyed on the corner of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, and right down to the Astoria, which had become a very popular mainstream music Venue and Club, and could seat and I think

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it's up to 2,000 people. so it was quite a lost to the London entertainment world.

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But we also lost Charing Crossroad for about 3 years, while we built that big concourse underneath it, and it was pretty chaotic trying to get around that that area of London.

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But now now we will have the benefit of that I could I could make a little comments about how we compare with other countries in this respect.

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If there aren't any yeah that would be really interesting, actually. Yes, go ahead. Okay.

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Well, My one of my most popular courses is the art of the Paris Metro, and they not only to have great art on their platforms, which is very much part of the tourist offering, and they're never very to aggrandize the wonderful

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city of Paris. and they publicize it with publications by the Metro, by the Sncf.

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Whereas we tend not to we're still waiting for me to write the book.

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I think one of my also very populous course, used to be on the art of the Moscow metro metro.

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But for some strange reason nobody wants to celebrate the Moscow, Metro and the St.

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Petersburg, Metro at the moment, for reasons I can totally understand

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But also you look around the world, every city with a Metro.

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Apart from one or 2 exceptions, uses all of that blank wall space to create art and to create decoration.

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And I could show you great work from such places as as

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Wine as aries. is a particular fantastic one rio de Janeiro, and also pyongyang wonderful underground, which I haven't.

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I've been to myself, but you can actually I have actually got pictures of propaganda all over.

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The Metro that's missing i've actually got another question here for you and Mike.

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This is from david's he's asking is the program of art on the underground continuing will there be more works to see.

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And is that a source to help us identify the arts as we go round the tube?

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Right. The Underground arts has developed in fits and star 7 ever since the 19 sixties, when the Victoria Line, which was built in such a cheap, commercially driven way, they felt they had to live in it up a bit so every

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station on the Victoria line has a work of our an appropriate work of art.

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But then there was some in the eighties, some in the nineties, and so forth.

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But every time we have any difficulty with the economy or with the finances of transport for London, we tend to stop whatever program is ongoing.

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As an example, the London over overground, as great works of art.

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And there was a concerted program at the beginning to put on a whole range of stations on London overground.

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And the guy that was running it from a well, very much from a management point of view at the time.

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The early 2 thousands with somebody you May not have heard of Then i'll send something called Boris Johnson, and when he went to Hamststead Station to open the art of the overground he committed to a program of

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art going right across the overground. And after that time another 2 art installations were created and no more.

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Okay because of the usual problems of inadequate finance.

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And are there other priorities? Okay? Well, I think that's about it for for us today?

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Thanks very much for that bike that was really fascinating.

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Some fabulous images as well, and I'm sure and we've all at some time, or another rushed through the underground, and just never taken the time to look around us I'm guilty of that I have to say!

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Michael is an honorary fellow of the University of Lester.

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He has written over 30 books and articles on a range of themes within the area of modern history, his special fields being European and Chinese history.

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In addition to university teaching in the Uk. he has lectured in France, Germany, Russia, and Australia, and a regular participant at international conferences.

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He has also frequently appeared on television as a talking head in a series of history documentaries.

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So welcome to you, Michael, and I think without any further ado.

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I shall just hand straight over to you. Thank you very much. if I just take this off.

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Got it. well welcome everyone. as fiona said we're dealing today with the most extraordinary woman. One of the outstanding features of the twentieth century.

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Indeed factorism. The ideology to which she gave her name is still highly relevant to modern politics.

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So today, I thought I'm trying to give some of the the essence of Mrs.

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Thatcher as an individual in government. there are so many aspects of the her career.

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We could concentrate on but i'll i'll select some specifics which I think give I hope will give a rounded picture of her.

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I think the first thing point i'd make about her is that she was very much an outsider in the political world to which he contributed.

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Indeed, before she became leader of the Conservative party.

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If you would, said, This is the type of leader who will emerge in the late seventies I don't think many people would have believed you a woman.

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It. A woman who led a would come to leave a traditional party.

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Some would even say a reactionary party and that she would hold office as Prime Minister for over a decade.

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So 15 years leading a party and over a decade leading a government That is extraordinary.

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And I stress that because one of the things that about her was that she didn't advance the cause of feminism, some of the sisters in the movement said she, wasn't a good feminist well, that's their point of view

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I just suggest that it is extraordinary that a woman could have done what she did in that period because she did it.

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We now take it for granted we look back. and Oh, yes, or not became a woman who led government at a party led government.

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But that is so unlikely before it actually happened so that's the first point i'd stress she is remarkable as a woman in dominating a party that was traditionally wholly male dominant orientated and then

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leading a government which no woman had ever done before. Certainly in Britain there are individual ladies around the world.

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This is Bandra Nayaka for example in old Salon, but the idea of a woman leading a government in England, Britain.

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It's truly remarkable, and I think that's the point I i'd stress at the very beginning.

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She is a very unusual person, and a Betty on a very unusual performing some very unusual activities.

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Well, let me share some slides with you. We can make our points in regard to this as we go through the that should now show you Mrs.

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Thatcher tb w I was going to ask what you think those letters stand for, but I won't because it's slightly rude.

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But I better tell you that bloody woman, and that was the 3 letter reference that her own colleagues gave her when she was in government.

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She was so so much a presence, even she wasn't there Physically they felt her presence, and they referred to her, I mean, half disparagingly and half an admiringly.

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Has that Bloody woman you couldn't ignore her whether she was there or not, and I've subtitled the the talk Britain's most successful revolutionary, which may seem a strange claim given that she was a

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conservative. I think most commentators now do agree that she did revolutionize British politics.

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We try to make that point as we go through there's a picture of receptionary, not the everyone based on the keg of our concept isn't it, but it makes this point, Margaret Thatcher a very revolutionary

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and then this statement, which I read in the great biography that Charles moore's written 3 volume biography, and he said, and I think it's a very good line to pick up on her true

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significance lies in. not what she did but in what she was, and I think that's very powerfully put and very pertinently put It goes back to a book he said just now about her being a woman in a

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man's world, and what she represented culturally internationally politically, is so significant.

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Leader party Prime Minister. Extraordinary period with as we said I don't think anybody could have foreseen that least of all herself.

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This is one of the remarkable things she was interviewed on children's television, I think, in the middle seventys one of the one of the children asked her.

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Would she ever be a prime minister? she'd all know I don't think we'll ever see a lady as Prime Minister in my time.

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Now. she may have been self-facing but I think she meant it, and it made perfect sense at the time that she said it.

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One couldn't foresee this why did it happen then Well, you'd have to say from the negative there wasn't anybody that could match her within the Conservative party that when Ted heath had gone having failed in his

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period of government. there really was no body that could match her potential, and I think most of the old guard in the conservative party saw her as an interim. A stop gap will let her run for a bit.

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And then we'll get back to the realize that once she was in.

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She would stay in for 15 years as a leader, and then extraordinarily, of course, becoming a Prime Minister.

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Now I put this Cartoon in I think it's brilliant cartoons, say so much you could write the history of so much of of Britain.

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Indeed of the world through cartoons. and this shows

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A police put at the door of Mrs. thatcher's house? she's he's asking did you get a good look at the man who stole your clothes and round the corner is Tony Blair dressed as Mrs.

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T I, while that's amusing It also makes a very profound point, that what followed Mrs.

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Thatcher was Blairism. it's a John made interlude, of course, but Blairism is essentially a restatement of so many of the thatcherite principles that she had laid down and that's not just an

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observation from outside Tony Blair himself, and then Gordon Brown the other.

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Later late they believed they both acknowledged their debt to her that she had changed the face of politics in in ways which we we can example as we go.

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Through. but I think it it is well worth stressing that that the 2 labour leaders who followed acknowledge that she had prepared the way for them in an extraordinary way.

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Politics are never the same. Indeed, Blairism some would say is factorism.

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It's a second phase of thatcherism which is remarkable point of view, which is to say that the labor party modified itself in the light of what she had done in her years in office just a few pictures here to give us

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an impression of the young lady that she was rather prim on the right hand side.

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Quite a nice smile. On our left there there's a sweet picture of her.

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I I did a book on British history. a textbook for schools. actually, and I wanted to put on the cover a rather nice picture of her, and the publisher said, No, no, no, no, they won't do you've got to show her

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looking grim because that's that's the public memory of her.

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So I did exceed to that in the end we didn't put on at all, and we put a picture of her after scarle on the front, which may be something to climb down.

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But to see where we are going from there. she had a scientific background and a number of writers, including, say, our main biographer, say she's unusual in that sense, most party leaders most Prime Ministers excuse

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me in Britain. came from a legal or an artistic background.

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Very few scientists and she is exceptional in that regard and it's more than just an oddity.

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Some would say that her understanding of the world as It was came from a practical interpretation that came from her scientific training, which is mentoring thought to to dwell upon

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I've listed them and down all of these now i've just listed there.

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The main features of her Korea as she rose from quite humble origins in Lincoln cheer. In Grantham a father was a grocer.

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She lived over the shop. and she rose through our own efforts to get to Oxford. and you got a scholarship to go to opposite, read chemistry and law there.

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Very good background, really, for someone's gonna live in the world in the way that she did so.

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She trains as a lawyer after her training as a scientist, a chemist Stand Conservative candidate.

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I remember that from my very youthful days I remember standing and losing a in in our local constituency.

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In darted. she marries into a rich inheritance, as it were, and to become the wife of a millionaire, which gave her a great boost, of course, in financial terms.

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And it was said that, the husband, or she said the husband was her great support in a way that Churchill's wife had been a great support to him.

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Interesting idea that the fella, the man could be supported in the way that Clementine Churchill had been to Churchill.

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Interesting notion that isn't it in 53 just for detail here that might interest you.

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She gave birth to twins by Cesarean section.

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If one is interested in that regard. It wasn't that she was just too posh to push it was that she was advised.

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It was the best method of the safest method of her giving birth.

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Just a detail becomes Mp. potentially right it up under the heat. Administration becomes a Minister State secret state for educate and science.

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It was then that she gained me sobri Kate of Milk Snatcher, Margaret Thatcher, milk snatcher.

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The opposition forces used to chant because she she took away fee milk from the over 11.

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I think it was something which he didn't ever quite get over, although she said she was simply put into into into action.

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The policy had already been prepared. She was simply implementing what what the Civil Service was already prepared for her.

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Well becomes leader in 75 after heates defeat in the symptoms for election.

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And it's as much dissatisfaction with him as as her popularity at that point that gives her the the promotion to leader.

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It's not that she's welcomed and embraced in that sense.

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It's simply there isn't anybody else around at the time is there?

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And she went with that for long will She that that's a sort of thinking in the Conservative party in 75.

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But once she was in, she was such a dumb personality that she made it very difficult for others to challenge her.

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So her forceful character came through now it's often said about her that she had no sense of humor, and that, and that it's a part of her doerness and her a deep sense of resolution, and purpose.

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And there may be something in that. I did meet her briefly.

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And she seemed very charming and very easy to amuse.

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I thought, anyway, that's that's got to not go down that road, and it becomes a very powerful force within the party.

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I to what you're still party lead it's what you became Prime Minister.

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She toured parts of Europe, and she knew something about the Soviet Union already.

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And she made a famous What? What became an infamous speech in 1978

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When she attacked Soviet Communism and said that they tant the policy that the West had been following really since the days of Khrushchev and Kennedy that Dayton was dangerous because the Soviet Union was still

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a force for evil in the world, and it's at that point that the Red Star, the newspaper in the Soviet Union, gave her the the title, The and Lady, which was meant to be very damaging to her But in fact as

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her adviser, said: Market, This is a marvelous moment for you to embrace that title because it can define you.

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It can define your policies. if I can show you a little clip of this.

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Only a few seconds of it, just to give you the flavor of her arrival.

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Yeah, I hope this will come alive Zoom van from

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I stand before you tonight in my red star shift on evening down

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Face softly made up on my hair. gently wave the Iron Lady of the Western world.

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Well that's just a little clip whoops.

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I need to switch that off. Excuse me the principles of Dayton, and said that we were ignoring the danger.

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Sorry about that. that's a clip by the way if you wish to follow.

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Leave this up There's a very good Youtube conversation between Charles Moore, the great biographer, and an interlocutor.

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From the United States and and it's about 50 min, but it does touch on some very interesting aspects of her career as seen by her.

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But her chief biographer. so I would recommend that.

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But let me go back to slides we were looking at to take it through.

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Yes, the Iron Lady notion she becomes Prime Minister.

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After her first election victory and she has 4 election victories. i'll come to those in a moment which is in itself extraordinary isn't.

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It. it's a woman leading a party leading a government and winning 4 elections in a row. dwell upon that that is truly remarkable.

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Truly remarkable. However, in the first few years of the administration, 79, through to 82.

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She didn't do very well in the popularity stakes and the opinion polls show that she was slipping dangerously near the point where there might be a reaction within her party against her, or indeed, that she might lose the Prime

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ministerial office. However, she was saved. Can I put it that way by by the Falklands event?

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I'll come to that again as we go through a little bit later.

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She was very lucky in the circumstances that came her way, and very lucky in those who opposed her up again.

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I'll come to that in a moment but she has luck on her side, and remember what Napoleon said about generals.

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I don't want good generals I want lucky ones and That's a very powerful notion, isn't it.

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You do need to be fortunate to be lucky in public life to survive because you can never control. the circumstances are going to come along as Howard Wilson said, A week in politics is a long time, and so to survive

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as she did. She needed luck, which she got to use the Laps Got a ride the luck which she did mind the strike.

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I'll come to that. one of the great formative events in her, in her administration nearly wiped out in 1994 ra bombing of the grand hotel in Brighton.

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I mean 5 people died in it. She was She avoided injury, even although she was close to the explosion.

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She wins a second election. Riding on the popularity she gained from the Falklands in 83 Windsor, 30 election in 87.

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And then in 90, is brought down by what she called i've used her word that the treachery of her colleagues, so she resigned as party leader and

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Prime Minister retires to the House of Lords, becomes Lady Thatcher of Casteven.

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And has a 20 year rather dull existence by her own, a definition that she was a woman of action.

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She said she she wasn't happy, unless she was doing things so she did decline quite markedly.

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Once she was out of politics. and some said her

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She becomes quite unworld mentally it doesn't check towards the end.

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Parkinson's that possibly but whatever the cause Some observer, some of her colleagues said it was in part a consequence of her feeling of hopelessness, or or pointlessness after she left politics that

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she. But what made her what she was was action, the actions as she got, and there was no follow up. That can be no fall up, can there? to be Prime Minister in terms of excitement and an action that he was involved in so

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aside a sad ending I said any well there's some applauded. If our opponents applauded again, we might come to that if if time permits.

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I think this is worth mentioning I don't if you know Cracker Poland.

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If You've ever been there, do go in love lovely city of this city, and in the cathedral there slender cathedral, there is a side chapel dedicated to Margaret Thatcher and it says in

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Polish bacon of liberty. Now imagine if you were trade unionist in written, you would find that deeply ironic.

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But what he refers to, of course, was her support. The East European resistance to the Soviet Union, which begins to take flower from *, 88 on before the Soviet Union actually collapses in 91 and we

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can certain quite legitimately, that she and her friend Lonnie Reagan, in part responsible for that collapse in 91.

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The collapse of the Soviet Union again. an unthinkable event a few years before it happened.

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You couldn't think this way, monolith the soviet Union could collapse but it did.

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And why collapsed? Of course we could go to great detail. but certainly we we can say, I think, with justice that she played her part in the cold war being won by the West.

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If that's how we interpret that period so along with Ronnie Reagan staunch anti-communist, and helps bring about the collapse.

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The Soviet Union. so it's a major aspect of her career, obviously, how we actually measure it in terms of detail, of course, is another matter.

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But her approach to politics, international politics, the well, essentially one again, of strong opinions, as with her domestic policies, because she believed that you got nowhere through weakness, you had to be committed, and you had to express your commitment powerfully and

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people would then respect you you can't do it by soft, gentle means, and I think that might come from the realization that she was in a very tough man's world, and she had to be tough, assault in order to survive so I

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think there's obviously a strong connection between a personal position and Her international one.

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The one carries over into the other. Here it just recorded the 4 election victories that she has.

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I went delay on them, but you can see at a glance that she wins in 97 in 83, 87.

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Now she's not in office of course. in 92, but it's still a conservative victory under John Major, which you can put down to her legacy.

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So you could claim that she is one for election in a row.

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An extraordinary success. Extraordinary success! I mentioned that she was fortunate in her enemies.

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And i've just listed there the one that we can say she overcame during her time in office.

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Harry Wilson, Kim Callahan, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, General Galgieri, in Argentina, after Scargill, the Ira, and the Soviet Union.

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Not a bad bag, that, is it? Not a bad bad

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The trouble of we're mentioning the fortune that she has at her luck.

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One of her great bits of luck was the labor party structure. At that point.

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It was led. I heard Wilson, who was declining force by the time.

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She meets him as an as an opponent.

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Jim can, of course, inherits that terrible business of the decline of the economy that the crisis which which he had to deal with, and and couldn't because it was so profound.

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And so that is 2 leaders at the point became leader herself, really couldn't offer her much in in by way of equal opposition, and Michael Foot, brilliant writer, really essays but not a good public figure.

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A powerful orator, but but couldn't put his void he couldn't put his ideas across to the electorate in a successful way, could he?

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And of course he hits the party to unilaterally at a time when that was was not a good move.

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Certainly not in terms of the overall electorate. So those I just mentioned, those 4 Wilson Calhoun Foot, and then Neil Kinnick, who takes over in 83, and he was never able to match Margaret

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Thatcher in terms of delivery of ideas, and a powerful speaker in his way.

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But he did acknowledge subsequently that she was a very hard opponent to deal with, and he was never quite sure what to make of her.

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As a woman did he attack her in a way that might be thought to be sexist.

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For example, it's careful not to do that but it meant they had to hold back in his challenge to her very often galchieri.

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Obviously that the leader of the hunter in Argentina, that she takes on in the Falkland War in 82 drunk on a daily basis.

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We now know Galgia. He was never sober.

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One way of getting through life, I suppose. but he she she!

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She wins, she wins he takes her on in a sense, and he loses scar goes. similarly.

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Now Arthur Scarg was a fascinating character.

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He defeated Edward Teeth. I think we can say that on 2 occasions during Heath's administration lead leading the miners strike.

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He tries it under Margaret thatcher and she digs in, and that's that very grim battle over in the orgreave.

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And the the demonstrations, and the strike and it's a close-run. thing and she worried at 1 point in during the strike that scarlet might, in fact, of popular support to push it in his favor.

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But he never did. he never did again. We can touch on that in a moment.

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The Ahra tried to blower up to the 84 didn't succeed and she took a very hard line with the Ira as well.

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She wasn't against discussion and negotiation that she always said you can't negotiate with people who are concerned to be collaborative and violent and brutal they've got to come down before I can

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debate with them and hit tough line now some say didn't work.

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Some say that she made the position worse and that's a matter of opinion, I think; but the Ira knew where they were with so much he wasn't going to give ground to them, and the violence and the terrorism they were concerned with would not

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shift her fascinating period, of course, in in in Anglo-irish relations in and the Soviet Union.

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We mentioned in that her hard line, the iron lady notion.

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She believed the Soviet Union was a force for evil in the world, but she had sufficient understanding of individuals to recognize that that in Gorbachev, who emerges as a man of dignity, and integrity, and she said

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you's a man I can trust I mean I can work with, although she detested the background from which it came. she was very willing to treat with him on equal terms, and he was he was very impressed with her.

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I mean when they first met at checkers they arranged for an hour's discussion, and it went on for nearly 6 h, because, although they argued very strongly against each other, a developing mutual respect came through what you

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couldn't see stalin or khrushchev or lenin ever being in that position. that's again a fascinating development within the Soviet Union.

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But it adds to her have esteem as a strong public figure.

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It's just a picture of the blow the explosion there's a picture figure there, and somebody said me.

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Oh, that's Margaret thatcher I don't think it is. I can't prove it's not

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It would be too, too lucky. wouldn't it there just have captured her there. But that figure it's a lady isn't it? so it could be her but I don't I think the lux run out at that point I don't think it

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is a lot for the for dogs, for I mean. but but you can see how near she was.

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I think this is her apartment that she was in. how near it was.

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Keep coming to a fatal end, cause he added to her standing in the party, she became a great heroic figure, because the very next day she carried on with the conference, saying, We we do not give into terrorism, which was very impressive

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very press, whatever your politics, you could but be impressed by this woman doing a boat a seer like or a creative, is with the first like defiance of the enemy.

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Cartoon here, which I thought was amusing, and said something quite profound.

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If you want something said, ask a man if you want something done, ask a woman.

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And that was said A cartoon relates to a death obviously in 2 13.

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It makes a nice point doesn't it another one which makes a good point.

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I think again, from that period. one of the conservative loyalists looking up to heaven to where she's gone, and you've got to train newness looking down wrong direction.

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So that's good good expression of the division of opinion over Margaret Thatcher.

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You either loved her or hated her, admired her, or heated very hard to feel indifferent about it pretty hard, and people still divide over it, don't they?

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Fascinating me his perhaps the most famous word she ever uttered in terms of her political viewpoint.

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I'm afraid I can't remove that easily but it says there's no such thing as society, and that became albatross around her neck, because the Guardian picked up that statement that she made in 87, and said

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Oh, that defines her, defines her lack of feeling for for people that no thing of society but what they didn't stress. Of course, much, she adds to it is no government can do anything except through people and people must look to themselves

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it's an appeal for individual responsibility isn't It it's not a rejection of welfare as such.

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It's a way of saying that people must be accountable because their true character, the true worth comes out in their acceptance, and they're they're dealing with the condition they're in which of course offended others who said, no

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she was being short-sighted, and she was being uncaring.

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And then this is last sentence which people are attacked over.

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People have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations, and then her line.

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There's no such thing as entitlement and there's someone as first met an obligation was said to define her policy.

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Her attitude here's the picture I mentioned I wanted to put on the front of my book, and they said no it's too triumphal.

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So, but I I climbed down that's her looking at her sternest, and that's her her declining period as a peer of the realm in the House of Lords, which he didn't really enjoy very much she I

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think she made one of 2 contributions but it wasn't her Metia.

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It wasn't wasn't her natural region for action house of Lords.

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Yeah, Well, let me quickly run through. I think some key factors in her.

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Approach to politics a conviction politician. She believed in what she did.

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She wasn't she wasn't moved by circumstance beyond the need to meet that circumstance in relation to a basic principles.

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She didn't bend with the wind I think we could put it that way.

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That that defines now some say it's a strength some say no. it's a weakness, she's 2 committed that can can often lead to hardness, and a lack of understanding.

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So you can. I argue either way, influence it on her.

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Keith, Joseph, and the new rights is it sometimes called belief in the free market?

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Van Hiak could famous Austrian.

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Economist of this period. he he pressed the idea of the free market in opposition to government and activity, because most of the nation post 45 adopted State centralized policies didn't.

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They? No, the Keith Joseph, as disciple of on hike, said No, it the way forward is free enterprise, an open market, and Milton Friedman not the interesting character there.

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He believed, that the great enemy Oh, okay, freedom, true liberty politically was inflation.

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Therefore, Government, who were responsible for inflation. That was his argument.

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That was his thesis government spending must be controlled. so that inflation is controlled and that hit those ideas market Thatcher picks up on just on a personal detail. there. Gordon Reese was her Guru and

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he's the man who suggested that she modify her voice and modify her appearance.

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Give her a softer look. He got hair dresses to style her hair differently, and he taught her how to drop lower.

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Her voice in such a way it wasn't shrill Now the female voice, as you know, is naturally higher pitch than most male voices and actresses are taught in drama. school.

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To bring down the voice. Bring it down a register if you can because it's more powerful, more effective.

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If you go, hi you you can become true and she she she sat and and and studied under, and recent that regard and and did device exercises, so her later voice, which is much modified from her earlier tones.

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Is interesting, and that that's due to gordon Reese interesting, interesting man.

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And influence is there her aims tried to sum up here a key approach the aims to end what she called the postwar consensus.

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She believed that the common acceptance by both major parties, conservatives, and labor of common policies, particularly in regard to economics, was damaging to British interests.

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The idea of Keynesianism. You know Knesianism.

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The notion that is the i'm in a healthy economy.

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John made our claims, wrote to the 1,900 thirtys during the depression, and is aim was to try and find an answer to economic depression, and he found the answer.

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He put it forward in that in terms of demand. the demand creates jobs that can.

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Creativity creates productivity and everybody benefits, and therefore, if demand drops off and you have recession, have to do is artificially to stimulate economy by creating jobs by by initiatives that that soak up the

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unemployed. For example. at most all the parties accepted Kingsanism as a basic policy.

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Unemployment was a great enemy, and you cured unemployment, or you limited to it by Keynesian methods that she found restrictive and damaging, and her interpretation Post-war Britain was that change inism

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had been too powerful in its influence, and it held Britain back.

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So her aim is to reverse Kenzianism, to cut government, spending to cut taxes along with that to restrict bureaucracy.

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Because if you cut government activity, you can cut bureaucracy.

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And this famous phrase of hers to take government off the backs of the people, so that's a summary of her aims.

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But in simplified form. How how would you go about that monitorism?

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Money control. Pick this up for Milton Friedman. Of course, the idea governments on the are the source of inflation, because they spend heavily.

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So if you can cut back on government expenditure, you can reduce inflation.

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You can cut inflation. A second factor. Second method, Trade Union Reform.

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Her interpretation of ted heed's time was he'd been too weak in the face of Union pressure, and therefore so get written back on an even keel.

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The train unions must be brought into line, so they serve the community rather than dominating it.

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And then we add that she was never anti-trade union in.

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She claimed she believed in bargaining. You believed in the free market in that video, and you need to trade unions.

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What she objected to was the dominance of leaders of trade unions who didn't consult members, but simply followed a political agenda.

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That's why she said, the trade unions need reform. they need control in because they're not democratic in their function.

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Again. You could respond to that as a trade reading this, but that was her line also believed in accountability.

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Margaret Thatcher that local government should account to the people.

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It should be responsible to the people, and therefore it should be reformed to make it much more accountable.

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It ties in with her notion of personal responsibility.

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People must be responsible for themselves, and therefore government at the local government which are responsible for handling public money must account for that money, and must account for the activities on the broader basis to the people.

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They meant to serve so strong. and she does follow that idea of reforming at local level, which, of course, caused great consternation and bitter response at local level, by many, at many councils and labor council of course back form really strong groups against

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saturism, as they called it. short term consequences for policies.

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Recession, rising unemployment, and social unrest.

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Yes, that there are disturbing scenes in the early eighties, riots in in some of the cities.

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Bristol, London. of course nottingham loom large there.

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So those what I say in shorthand were the consequences of her immediate policy.

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In the early eighties monitorism, and there are other reforms that went with it, and that the of the freeing of the market her oppositions, political opposition, and trade.

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You know this. This was a reason for for recession that she was.

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She was distorting things by her hard line Well, let's come to one of the those policies I mentioned.

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Saw her popularity dip in the in the early eightys, but pick up very, very rapidly after her great success over the Falklands again.

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Not time to go to the details here, but she stood out again bowed a seal like against the galaxy area threat to take over the fortune's, and it's said by those who around at the time.

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That she was so individual in what she did she wouldn't listen to those who doubted the possibility of winning, and when she got the first sea Lord!

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On her side. she said. that's it if he says we can do this.

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We can. So the the launching, you know of that campaign?

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That that that you know, part naval and part are landed.

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Campaign in the Falklands, which proves highly successful again. we'd love to go into detail if we can't but she wins, and she wins because she is committed to the idea we have to win she said there's

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no alternative to defeating Galieri. Because if we lose on this one, what else could we preserve of British values?

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If we give up on protecting the falcon islanders, 98% of whom wish to stay under the British flag.

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If we don't honor that we're not prepared to fight for that we might as well give up huge risk.

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She took, Of course, that had failed if that's campaign had failed.

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She would be lost. she could have carried on she'd committed herself to victory.

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There again. I won't go into the details of how the campaign was was run, and people did object to some of her moves.

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That would be thinking of the belgrano but She comes out of it, hugely popular, particularly among the service class element.

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I'm i'm being in portsmouth at the time when the fleet came back and the rejoicing, and the chairs for her extraordinary extraordinary.

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Now you might say that's an isolated area but I think the general public picked up that mood. and she was seen as oh, really figured that it's that a defeated fascism in the object canyon full of

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it. Well, let's press on the outcome as I say on the political outcomes a key one upsurge in her popularity.

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Wrong for the opposition. Yes, Michael foot and then neil connects. didn't really know how to handle this They couldn't attack her too strongly, because that would appear to be labor not supporting the lads out there fighting big

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problem for for labor. How did they handle the forbidden question?

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And they were caught out on it really, and they lost popularity.

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And she gained from this again part of her her luck in in that regard.

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Let's come to the the other very biggest suit in her time.

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The minus strike call was in decline. British cold could not be mind at a profit.

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So who it was was in town would have to accept.

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The mining was in decline, could it be sustained?

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But through subsidy. that was a big question and of course the social issue came up there.

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If you if if you allow minds to close mind is a phone out of jobs, and they're not many workers, they're part of a community that depends upon the mind.

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The pit, and the mind was central to saying, the South Wales area parts of the northeast parts of Scotland.

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If the minds closed, the community died and it's argued that she never quite grasped that.

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So when she pushed forward for logic. But minds are losing money.

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Therefore you allow them to close because it suicide the economic to leave them open.

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She was saying in effect those victims i've got to face the consequences of an economic decision, and that she led her to being accused of being uncaring the idea that she didn't really care enough about people.

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She cared too much about ideas, and about economics not about community. That's one of the charges that you still here, of course, by by those who don't accept her record the there to cartoon.

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Which I think is amusing, but make again makes a very powerful point.

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So do tell me, do you keep all of these magnificent 5 men with calls, anyway, and there's it even sorry about this.

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But it should say under there, Why, is this pit still open that's rather good isn't it she's going down into the debts.

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And she's she's worried that it's a pit not been closed.

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Very bitter that, but he makes his point doesn't it and hit here aspects of it closure the minds would distrust whole communities, and then the mining dispute was led by 2 very hard men hard

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line me after Scargill, a committed Marxist who actually took money from the Soviet Union.

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This time, and from Libya we now know face by Ian Mcgregor, a Canadian.

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But with a record of being very unfinching and very unsentimental.

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If I think didn't work close it if a plant doesn't work, close it, and he took that line over the mining industry in Britain.

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Mine closure was, was his his priority, and of course you could see why the 2 met, and of course the Government backed Mcgregor not openly.

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The Government claimed to be Neutral in this but of course it wasn't, and what Margaret thatcher had done she'd learn from a Ted.

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He's mistakes. she had ordered the stockpiling of coal. when she learned that a strike was looming, so when Scarle called out the miners in 84. the government had prepared the way.

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There were enough stocks to keep fuel supplies.

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I of course. Also that strike never became a full strike in terms of all the miners.

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A. at its strongest. It was 2 thirds of the miners, and it was only half within 8 or 9 months of the strike, and he never gone backing through a poll.

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He never pulled his members, and and she was able to say he's not followed democratic path.

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He's he's taken a decision at the top of the Nu M.

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But it's he has no he has no remit from the miners themselves.

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There's no mandate from them because he's not tested their view on that.

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And that was his weakness. not not being prepared to call a ballot on the strike.

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Well, after that first failure we can save her policy down to 82, 83.

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We then have a second stage. Most scholars most books talk about this, where you turns to what's called supply side economics, and I've just listed there the key elements of it, reducing taxation to increase incentives

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encouraging competition to lower prices, limiting the powers of the trade unions.

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So they couldn't block productivity, and then cutting what wasteful welfare payments This is the one that got her charge with being uncaring that she said.

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Dependency deprives people of their sense of of self worth and the first rule of government shouldn't be to bail up people.

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Haven't got jobs. It should be to provide them with jobs to give them some sense of worth back in a community of work.

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That's her life. but as you can see could be easily interpreted as being anti welfare, which he claims she never was, but he wanted welfare properly adjusted. probably allocated.

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So it served the interest of the nation, and not just all particular groups.

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Deregulation. Another aspect of a policy i've just listed there again.

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The big changes in finance, transport, education, hospitals, housing, local government.

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They are all brought under this notion of we don't need organization.

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And Reg. If you can break down the degree of red tape, for example, you can get much more efficient public services.

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That's her notion. So all through her line is my policies aim to serve the public.

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Now, of course, that was challenged by those who found it to be not a balanced approach, but that's her line.

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So all these deregulatory measures are meant to make the services more accountable to the people.

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They're meant to serve as in education for example as in housing, and this idea of Council House tenants being allowed to buy their property, which would add to this number of a property owning democracy, which had been the great conservative

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principle, even before her time privatization not the big isn't it.

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And then we've listed some of the 50 entries is sold off, enjoying her time.

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British airways, pretty steel British cold cable, and miles.

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But what what a what a challenge of of key areas they are aren't they?

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And there's a revenue derived from privatization building up over her.

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He is very impressive that isn't in terms surely of amount running into the billions in the end.

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These are figures that people use, of course, in terms of attacking the policies because they claim policies led to Al employment, and the number of industrial workers declined significantly.

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In those 20 years, however, that's entirely a result of political policy. Margaret, that's policies There was a natural decline in Britain as an industrial power.

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Britain was moving from an industrial base to a service economy, and so that would have happened regardless of the governments in power at any particular time.

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It was a process it's attached of course to the industrial sorry to the to the international setting as well.

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Companies weren't buying from britain in the way they had previously, and that was a reality that had to be you responded to.

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So those figures don't suggest unemployment but they do indicate the shift in the industrial shape of Britain.

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The move away from heavy industry. Now this is remarkable.

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Comparison of Gdp rates, which is the only way you can measure.

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Really an economy through Gdp measurement and you'll see there that Britain does rather well in the thatcher years compared with Europe.

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Which shouldn't have been if you think joining Europe would be the way ahead, because it would free Britain to become more prosperous.

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In fact, it no. Europe declines at a time in Britain in terms of Gdp output increases.

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These are the number of firms created in her time, or all other developing her time.

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And the number of self-employed and you'll see that very significantly it's a self-employed that she was very keen to help because she believed the self employed who didn't depend on

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stay handouts or state subsidies, that they were the real source of economic strength.

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So those figures are interesting. They follow in part, anyway, from her emphasis upon self-employment, self-employed activity as being one of the great sources of rich recovery.

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This might strike you as odd because you wouldn't think it was gonna happen real real wages in her time.

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France, West Germany, U.S.A.: very low. increase even a minus figure. U.S.A.

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But if in Britain real wages, that's that's capacity to buy real wage earnings that can be realized in in purchase or goods, real wages, not not just a figure itself, but they increase by 26

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percent. No small thing that is it. Inflation rate 20 over 20% in her early years, and it's dropped by the middle years to to in half around there.

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And then this great principle of hers of a shareholding society.

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But each people holding shares increased by 25%.

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Over. a 1 million people bought their council houses again that's controversial because some said it took council housing out of the reach of those who would rent it.

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But people have got to live somewhere, she said so i'm not I'm, not I'm not decreasing the availability of property.

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I'm just giving freedom. People who are already in that property to purchase

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Those are the unemployment figures. under her for 1983 to 90, and you'll see how grim they are. By the middle years 3 and a half are approaching 3 and a half 1 million.

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They dip significantly in her later years, but that those middle years were very troubled times, and she was accused of deliberately creating unemployment.

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These are figures showing the tax rates that develop under her.

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One of her promises while she would cut tax on, did she?

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Well, yes, but you would say marginally in 79, a single person's total tax bill was 45 in 1990; that if her term is down to nearly 43, and married with 2 children the

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tax rates. There they dropped again. So there is a marginal shift.

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So in a sense she kept the promise it's not a huge sweeping change.

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But it's going in the right direction. one might say her collapse, of course, is over.

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2 major features of her time, the poll tax, which she very badly handled in 89, 90, and then her approach to Europe which upset her own party colleagues picked those at the top.

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A nice like plot it, if we can use that word against her and bring her down over poll tax over Europe.

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Some say she's already passed her best by then she'd been in office for too long, and therefore she'd run out of that sense of political judgment that had seen her through earlier, and that is an interesting point so when it.

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Comes to the challenge to her. Michael Hazelton, who was strongly backed by many in the bookies back back, Tim, would you believe

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But when it came to the vote a cheat she wins but she doesn't win by a big enough majority to prevent a second, a a valid being, called, and that was enough for her to say i'm not prepared to stand for second

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ballot if I can't win on the first it shows the direction of the party, and she announced her withdrawal.

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Just to finish the story there. Little time think he could now breeze in was then opposed by John.

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Major and Douglas heard and they'd end Major defeated him, and Hazel.

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I never forgave Margaret Thatcher or nature.

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So he and Heath have this long sunk again in the way they were.

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Well, let me end on this run on about. take a couple of minutes.

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The beta. With thatrism the case for supportors would push this point.

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Made Britain face economic reality, encourage initiative, created conditions of growth, creating new jobs, advance popular capitalism, and develops the notion of accountability against that opponents would say writers for still emphasize these points.

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Encourage individuals and agreed, ignored the needs of the vulnerable in society, cause unemployment in particular areas.

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Of course, at her policies, led to recession

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And then i'll end on this I promise these are what i've called the Paradoxes of tattooism.

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Despite her determination to cut Government spending when she went out of office in 1990 public expenditure was at record levels.

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She didn't cut public expenditure overall there were times when it did drop, but overall there's an expansion in in government spending central government was meant to be cut and limited, but in fact, there were more departments doing

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more activity under her by 1990 and to European I haven't time to go into this. it's fascinating theme, and here European, but she takes Britain deep into Europe. anybody else.

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Up to that time 1,986 the single European act, which which commits Britain in a way that she then later regretted such had been bad badly advised. but was her work her acceptance and then this last point

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i've made I don't have the ladies think about this, but feminists still say that she didn't serve feminine interests.

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And have comment here. she wished to promote she didn't wish to promote women merely because they were women. that would be to patronize them.

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And you can argue for and against that my view and i'll close on this is that looking at it from an objective coupon as I can.

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What she did proved what women could do at that highest level of political action, and nothing called close on that point.

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So I drive around a bit. But there we are. Okay. Can I stop the share there?

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Yes, thank you, Michael. thanks very much for that, and I think we shall just dive straight into some questions.

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Michael no, let me just scroll back up to the top.

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No! this is a question from sorry focus. This is taking a minute.

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At that time when she saw it first broke through. She was the only woman so presumably men help to get there.

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What would you? What would you say to that? That was from Lisa?

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Well, they did not, with the intention of her being there as long as she was she was a stop gap.

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She was she filled in caretak, if you like, until they found some of it.

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But she then dominates the men but I don't think they were on her side to begin with and the tory party wasn't Pro-market Thatcher in that sense, until she proved her worth as a leader

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as a Prime Minister, but but as a party leader. it's because there was nobody they could put up against her in 75, and they were so upset with what heath the the done.

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His failures that anybody would do in the sense rather than Heath.

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And I think they were lulled into thinking Well, she'll do as a stop gap a fill in. But yes, you're right in the sense that it was man who chose her.

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But I don't think they chose her with the motive of of promoting her in the way that she did rise.

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Okay, interesting, right? Let me find the next question. yes, this is about the the I re. when you were talking about , and standing standing up to the ie.

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This is from Patrick. Did she really beat the Ira?

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History, and the forward trained of irish unification which you're starting to do some of that coming through.

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Yeah, good question. I wouldn't put it as a as victory and defeat.

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No, that would be too strong, because obviously the problem goes on and goes on.

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Now. but what I had in mind was that she wouldn't make any concession. There were there were voices in politics the time saying, Look, although the Ira are terrorists, they do have a point politically.

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You've got to recognize that before you can reach any resolution and she refused to accept that line of reasoning on the grounds that it was giving into terrorism.

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So, whatever the Ira case might be in political terms whatever value it had, or credit she wouldn't accept because it was presented in a way that was that was blanched over by terrorism.

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Now that doesn't mean she wins the battle Obviously and they already become even more entrenched in some ways in their bitterness and and dislike of her and and her her government.

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But it by standing up to terrorism I think I put it that way.

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She showed that she wasn't going to be a soft touch and she wasn't going down the road of concessions that some had put to her as the logical way to reach a settlement.

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Somehow in Northern Ireland. in the end. Of course, we do get concessions on both sides.

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Unionists and national side in the end that's wrong long past her time.

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But some would say that her resolution and her resistance to concessions to the Ira was a form of victory in itself.

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But I I take the point, of the question it's not It's not a victory in terms of defeating the Ira as a movement.

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Obviously not but it puts her in a in a position of defending what she regarded as the democratic process against terrorism.

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That was her line, and I think it was popular, too, in in in Britain, anyway.

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Broadly, and did add to a victory in 87.

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For example, Okay, and next question is from Steve, and it relates to another question kind of from Sue as well.

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To what extent was that empowered by the support of most national newspapers? And that leads into a comment from Sue, which was when you were talking about the kind of list of enemies that she had overcome and it could be said

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that she could bet easily have overcome sort of some of those people and the progressive approaches.

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And as people like Kenneth were demonized by the press, so what what could you say about that?

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Well, of course the press is divided isn't it it's not wholly anti or pro thatcher.

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He taught the guardian, I mean the voice of the intellectuals.

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We sometimes think that that maintain a very consistent anti- thatcher line, as with that publication of her statement about no such thing as society.

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The Guardian throughout her time was opposed to her. the Daily Mirror was opposed her.

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Now you take the express and the male. Of course they were Pro thatcher popular papers.

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The times tried to be neutral as it always does but I wouldn't have thought you could argue that she supported strongly by the press.

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I think it's divided. and certainly, some of the most damaging things said about her lack of care, for example are said by by the Guardian and by the mirror and mirror.

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Of course the highly popular paper guardian was limited circles but influential certainly among intellectual classes wasn't the Guardian. So I wouldn't I would totally accept the idea of the press was on her side the popular press

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was. Yes, the tabloid, if you like, and they represent a greater number of readers.

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Of course, the express and the far out way, the Guardian and the Times in terms of readership.

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So that that one could add that to the the the comment but I wouldn't have thought that that there's a press control exercise at any point.

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And she she got some very grim reviews from from the garden, as I say, and the mirror and I pick those 2 as the anti Thatcher papers and the Pro Thatcher.

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Of course, the male and and the express so I I think it's divided.

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I think the press was divided, as was a nation in many ways, with with entrance on Margaret Thatcher side.

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When it came to choices. people did tend to back her as out for elections show.

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That's what an accident is it if you can win 4 elections that must say something about the mood.

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The attitude, the leaning of the electrode

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I I put that that level. Yes, okay, right another question I suppose it's kind of almost related to what we've we've just been talking about there, and a question from Helen she becomes Kenny Everett at the

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Conservative, , conference in 1983 declining , , like Michael Fitch, stick away.

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Let's born Russia not disowning Such didn't she say that it was it was a joke, and that you shouldn't take the joke too seriously.

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He always she wouldn't do what he was suggesting and he didn't really intend her to do that, and she said you must take the joke.

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That was her line, and there's no need for me to denounce it, to go back on it.

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It was the conference that he was providing light entertainment in that particular way of his, and so don't take it any more seriously than he intended.

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No obviously that wouldn't satisfy up that was her comeback Anyway, on it.

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I don't respond because it's not serious and either satisfied with the dance or it doesn't.

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But that that was her line. That was her a reaction to it.

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I do remember it actually. Yes, for the big the big hands yeah didn't it?

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Yes, even even I remember that. And okay The question from Sheila.

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Hmm! very relevant to myself, being from north of the border.

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Particularly was the pull tax her biggest economic policy Mistake?

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Yes, short answer yes back on she didn't understand what She was letting herself in, for she said she was badly advised, and she may well have been because obviously you get your information from advisors.

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That's their job, but her her rush to introduce it she didn't need to.

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There was no necessity to introduce the poll tax When she did, she could awaited

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It wasn't a great demand from the public I mean the rate system didn't need reform.

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There's no doubt about that. but the idea of a poll tax very badly.

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Handled, because it gave the impression that she was punishing people financially as individuals for what

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It seemed that she was picking off people, and and and since finding them, what meant was, people should pay for the services they receive. and therefore, in a local community the right not a good way of doing that, how do you pay for education the

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police the streets to be clean people all benefit from those things, and therefore they should pay their fair share, and so to Poll pull.

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In that sense, people paying for what they receive would seem to be a perfect piece of justice in her mind.

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She didn't understand the politics attached to it and since you mentioned north of the border.

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Why, what is it? Scotland? She picked on to impose it?

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And that led to very strong resistance among Scottish people, which then carries over into into the rest of Britain; and it's seen as an act of arbitrary government on her part.

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So. Yes, the answer is, it was very badly handled.

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She made a very big era there in 89, 90.

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Yes, yeah, right? Okay. Another question. and then, I know that we've got some other questions that have come in.

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But I think what we may have to do because we have run on a bit.

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We'll take the rest of the questions are we and get these answered afterwards, and i'll send them to you.

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My, but we've had a 2 or 3 questions about I guess her legacy and I think it's kind of summed up by a question from Kevin.

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Do you again that some of our convictions led to poor policies that have since been discredited even by the Conservatives.

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So you're talking about pull tax you're talking about conversation. look at what's happening with energy at the moment.

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You know the the railways without replacing all of this. yes, i'd accept those criticisms.

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Yes, they do. They They were reverse, they were, they were.

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You can say Ill judge policies and they're out and they did not succeed in achieving the outcome. She had in mind what I think is important about her legacy.

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There is not so much the economics which we could obviously debate one way or another.

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But I go back to the the response of of the Labor party, who said that she had changed the character of politics.

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She brought into politics a sense of realism that had been lacking prior to her.

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In other words, You had to face the world as it was and you couldn't simply stick to ideals being presented.

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That's what Neil kenneth picked up on very quick.

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Remember, the 8 is famous 85 speech to the Congress, which was booed by many, he said.

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Look the real world is like this comrade and you can't go around putting your ideals of socialism in if they don't work in the times we're in we've got to be realistic and that was almost saying

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That's a piece of pure thatcherism the world is like this: Britain's in this world at this point, and this is what you have to do in order to respond to the crises and the problems that confront britain you can't

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follow an ideological line and be successful. that is, I think, her biggest legacy, and one acknowledged.

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As we said before, by Tony Blair, who became Thatcherite, would suggest in his approach to Government one of her greater successes, someone said, is terrorism.

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I see you put as a as a a degree level question.

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University that Margaret thatcher's greater success. was Blair-ism, which is really a new form of saturism.

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Now that was a notion that was a notion and I think there's so much in that to to dwell upon that.

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She changed the way politicians thought about politics in Britain.

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Now you might think that a reactionary or regressive policy fair enough, but that is what she did.

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And it it couldn't have been done any other way I I would suggest at that point, and I wonder whether any other individual apart from her, could have done it in the way that she did which may come round the fact that she was a

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woman operating in a very difficult world. Every move she made was subject to, because the way she dressed and appeared criticized the whole time.

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Every every time you open a newspaper. There was some comment about her.

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Her dress and style, and she had to live with all that, and she did it.

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I would suggest very successfully. accepting Oh, the other point you made about the failures on economic policies in detail and the reversal of privatization.

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Yes, yes, but it's her impact on politics. I think which is the the biggest aspect of her legacy.

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Okay, right, folks. I think we need to leave it there because we really are out of time.
 

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Okay. So today, what i'm looking at is the origins of football,

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And Scotts want to stop by saying that what are called folk games or mob football been played by the common people throughout the British Isles for more than a 1,000 years, especially on special accounts like Strove tide But

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the gains differed from place to place and it wasn't for always we know it to die.

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There were few, if any, rules, and it was a very violent game.

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Deaths and serious injuries being very common over the centuries.

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The authorities tried everything to ban it. By the early nineteenth century it had virtually died out.

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Now the revival of football kind for the very unexpected source.

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The public schools. By the nineteenth century public schools have become very violent and disorderly places.

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Pupils can' themselves to be superior to The rest of society, including being superior to their middle class masters or teachers.

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So at the beginning of the nineteenth century, students regularly attacked masters as well as the local population

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They had also been playing violent, disorderly mob games since the Middle Ages. When the public school was started.

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They were gains that witness. The lower class is playing in their communities.

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The masters in public schools in the early nineteenth century were deeply religious, and committed to the Puritan ethic.

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They disapproved of and frowned on these mob guides, and tried to curb these outbreaks of disorderliness.

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But they will gradually losing control of the boys. So by the nineteenth century it was so bad.

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The many public schools attempted radical reform, and one such school was uping on the public.

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The school's reforming head edward free architect of the headmaster's conference of public school heads, so to direct the boys aggression into more noble pursuits.

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But probably the greatest influence was at Rugby School, and probably the most influential person with regard to the development of modern sports, and that person was Thomas Arnold and Arnold is known as the father of public school

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athleticism. The inspiration for Arnold's ideas were taken from the noble traditions of ancient Greece.

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In 1,846. It was Arnold who sat down.

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The first truly standardized rules to the game of football.

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Oh, no! it's puritanism also encouraged Greek Spartan ideals of courage, discipline, leadership of resolve in the face of all austerity.

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So headmaster is like throwing, and Arnold 1, 2, 2 instill.

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These qualities and values into their pupils. After all, I were training the elite who would lead what they thought of as this great empire of nations of ours. and this Olympian ideal was expressed in the

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motto, Mansana, incorporated sono, which, loosely translated, means a healthy mind in a healthy body.

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In practice this meant cold showers, plenty of talk and physical activity.

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It was thought that this would not only instill order and discipline, but also would provide a healthy activity or adolescent boys, distracting them from heavy drinking and gambling as well as what were considered more

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disgusting personal activities, like masteration and buggering.

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These reforming head masters thought therefore that's spot was good for the soul, as well as for the body

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They developed the cult of athleticism and the notion of muscular Christian views of manliness.

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Now muscular Christianity was a movement that assumed that mole.

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Fortitude, as expressed in Christianity, was founded on physical fortitude.

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This reform of sport also involved the development of what came to be known as the Corinthian spirit, and the coincidence Spirit meant more physical and deva as well as moral integrity.

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It involved playing with the rules games. It was thought to be about model instruction, particularly that it is wrong to change What was important was not just the letter, but also the spirit of the game which at the time was expressed.

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The English poet Henry newbolt let's play up, play out play the game so arnold Well, as other reforming headmasters encourage the boys to make the vulgar games that they applied respectable

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the rules of their traditional school guides were formalized into house, competitions were encouraged.

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A masters observed how well the game served to encourage qualities such as loyalty, selflessness, cooperation, supportination, and deference to the team spirit.

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So football was transformed into a gentlemanly guy.

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With a code of conduct. So between 1845, and 1862.

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The 7 main public schools put their rules into writing. However, different schools had different sets of rules, and even though they tried to find a common set of rules, all the published schools still continued, and still continue to this dye to play their own

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peculiar versions of football now having different rules.

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90 difficult for schools to play against one another. I often ended up playing half the game by one school set of rules, and the second half by the other schools rooms.

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And this is how the game became a game of 2 hearts.

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But when they left school many of these old boys wanted to carry on play, so they needed a standardized set of rules.

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Now there was one attempt standardized set of rules called the Cambridge Rules.

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Each public school thought that their rules, like their elite students, were superior to all others.

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So it was difficult to get to get them to agree on a common set of rules, and the Cambridge rules were an attempt to entice all the public schools to associate themselves with a prestigious university like Cambridge where Many of

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them had gone following public school, and the first game under the new Cambridge rules was played here on Parker's piece of Cambridge.

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I know Parks piece quite well, because it's dead opposite where I did my first degree.

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In kind, which is now called Anglia raskin University.

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But it even this didn't work as public schools continue to insist that the game be played under their schools rules, but like to own, after a series of meetings in London rep representatives for Oxford and Cambridge, and from 11 London

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football clubs, met at the Freemasons Tavern, and collectively wrote a common set of rules.

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Now these people that met were all elite gentlemen who had been to public school.

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How many of those public schools Charter House actually sent a webinar to the meeting.

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These new rules, however, were established on the 20 sixth of October, 1,863, but not until after long periods of argument, and wrangling over months of months.

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Nevertheless, the Football Association was established, and the first Faa Rule book was written, and the the rational recreation model of football was established.

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So incompetent it to folk phone.

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There were a number of differences with this rational recreational model.

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First it was highly organized. There were times of guines.

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There were the length of guines. There will go over laws attached to the games.

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They were governing parties, officials controlling the Guines clubs.

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All clubs had to affiliate to the Football Association.

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There was a regular fixture list reflecting the social organization of industrial capitalism.

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There were fixed seasons, although these fixed seasons didn't come about until the formation of the football league later on, and also club colors.

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Those I had always worn their school or university bags or cap Teams didn't always at first we are all the same colors, and after a while it began to occur to them that they would be able to distinguish between their

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teammates and those on the other team more easily if they all wore the same colors again.

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This is evidence of rational thinking. so I want to go through nature phase.

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So because of its origins. The modern game was originally played by X Public school, and Oxford gentlemen.

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In fact, the public school, educated elite of gentlemen, dominated the game.

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At this time the Football Association was dominated by an ex public school elite, and the next major development in football was the inauguration of the Football Association Cup.

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The faire Charles Allcock, a public school outboy, was founder of the Fa Cap, in 1871.

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This is the original fa cap. It was actually stolen in 1895.

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But this replica replaced it, and in 1910 it was given to Lord Canada.

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So his services to the development of the guy i'll talk about Lord Canal a bit with in a moment.

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But you can now see this replica the National Football Museum in Manchester.

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If you ever get to go where you could also have your picture taken with the trophy.

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So, as I said, the early clouds were mainly public school old boys and university graduates.

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The Onlytonians were one of the best sides of that peering, and this is them winning the Fi card.

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In 1,892, in fact, the first 11 years of the F.

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A cup were dominated by teams of X public schoolboys.

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In fact, only elite teams won the fa cap. during this period wanderers, for example, the first winners of the Fi Cup in 1871 included 4 old heroians very old.

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Itodians, one H. for Westminster, Charter House, Oxford, and Cambridge.

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The Corinthian spirit of the gentleman amateur was hegemonic.

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During this period it was considered ungentlemanly demand payment for playing.

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The only oyx wanted pay. paying and It wasn't allowed a hegemony of sportsmanship of playing the game by aristocratic notions of chivalry were encoded into the game.

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It was also, for example, considered cheating to trying football was a pastime.

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It wasn't to be taken so seriously a gentleman is someone who can wait without sweating and without a pewing to try to hard, gentlemen.

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It was thought, when, simply because they are naturally superior to the Oyks,

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So adherence to the rules was even told not cheating was supposed to be character building, although it's mostly gone.

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Now some of this spirit does occasionally surface to die, and also subordination took order, and leadership was inherent in the guine.

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The notion of Captain C was also central to elite Dallas.

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The captain was considered a leader of leaders of men. Now the Duke of Wellington climbed that the battle of Walter Loon was one of the plain fields of Eaton.

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In other words, football was used as a metaphor for supporting ruling interests in society.

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It was a form of moral instruction and a demonstration of elite values.

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Oh, players were obliged to accept the referees decision without question.

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Indeed, if a referee gave a penalty against the gentleman amateur team coincidence, who did more than most teams to spread the game around the world, they would withdraw their goalkeeper to allow the

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other team to score, because then wouldn't want to be accused of gaining an unfair advantage.

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But these gentlemen amateurs, what also team to spread football to the working class.

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So under patrician patronage. the wealthy were very infectious devotees, taking popular or vulgar games, changing their meaning or function in the public schools.

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And then disseminating them to commoners as respectable guides.

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So they were keen to see football to the working class.

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As long as the working class continued, continue to know their place.

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So, then, it was the realization of a moral ideal of the bourgeois class playing by the rules.

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In other words, it was a metaphor for playing by the rules of capitalism for the working class.

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They thought it would be character building, employing muscular Christian values, but it was also highly patronizing the way it was spread to the working class.

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To to give you an a couple of examples of that 2 popular magazines amongst the elite at the time, where the Sporting Gazette and the feature, and they regularly insisted the the world should not

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be too complex for what they described as the uncouth breadthren, or John Ball fresh from the plow.

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I want you to return football in a reconstructed form, as they be believed.

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It would be beneficial to promote class conciliation or cohesion.

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Bearing in mind that the Industrial Revolution, not much earlier than this, had separated the classes by creating giant urban conservations that were almost wholly working class in places like Manchester, Liverpool and the East End,

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of London. There was a lot of industrial strife at this time, as in industrial capitalism, was still struggling to establish it itself, and there was a great fear The disorder could break out at any moment.

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So I also wanted to provide an entry into bourgeois respectability.

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So in the words of Matthew arnold the son of Thomas Tarnell, to provided all train to bourgeois respectability, so that the working class, in his words don't wallow in this beer their

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gene and their fun. In other words, he saw it as part of the civilizing process.

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But also to spread ruling class values to the most deprived and feared working class areas.

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That's one of the reasons why the oldest and most successful clubs are situated in working class areas.

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So. there was more than a touch of social engineering in the mind of the proponents of a universal code to bring about the spirit of orderly behavior, of self-control and discipline in the masses and the other

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educated working classes,

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So they sent out missionaries to work in class areas. So much muscular Christian missionary work was done through the church, through schools and through youth clubs.

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You know, many ex public school boys have become teachers clerks, or they had entered the clergy.

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So if we take us an example, Everton, for all club, Everton started out as a Sunday School football team

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So also many muscular Christian missionaries became local employers.

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So, for example, Stoke City, cruel Alexandra and

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Manchester United, all started in railway companies. Coventry City, for example, emerge from the solar singer, selling machine factory and personal from the village munitions.

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Factoring and my team West Ham united from the an East End ship building that we pay yard

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But because of working class involvement. This was quiteually changing.

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The notion that the gentleman elite dominated the game and up until 1,883 they had.

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They dominate the gain that dominate its results. it dominate its dominated its governing bodies and its culture.

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For 20 years, but as a site because of working class involvement.

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This was gradually changing. Elite Teams had won the F. A.

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Cup for the first 11 years, from 1,871 until 1,982, until a rapture of hegemonic proportions occurred in 1,883 and the significance of

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the 1,883 fa cup final shouldn't be us to underestimated Lord Kinette's Olditonians lost the fa cup final after extra time 2 Blackburn

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Olympic. The game was a bitter struggle that went to extra time with the Olditonians.

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Determined not to lose to these working class oyks as I saw them, and the Olympic team determined not to suffer defeat.

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But for second year in the wrong, Olympics scored the winning goal in extra time.

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Lord Kenneth was very gracious in defeat as he had been responsible more than anyone for encouraging the working class to take up the game.

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He teammates, however, regarded it as an insult to their superiority, and wanted to declare the result null and void, because they said extra time.

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This was until Lord Canada interfed and said he wasn't having it.

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These working class slides like one fair and square. In fact, Blackburn, Olympic, was the first team from the north of England, and they consisted mainly of mill workers, but also weavers spinners, a

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dental assistant, a plumber a cop worker and an iron foundry worker, and unlike the old Deutonians.

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They're taken a very professional approach. to the cup final We've got to diet, and we've regard to training in Blackpool in the week before the final something that the Olditonians regarded as cheating but this was

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just the start of domination by Northern teens, made up mostly of working class men.

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In fact. Yes, I, Cap, was never won by a gentleman amateur team again.

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Another working class chain, blackboard rovers, then one the fa cup in the next 3 seasons.

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So we gradually saw the demise of elite football.

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Within 5 years of the Blackburn Olympic victory, Elitist football had been swept aside by tens of industrial working men.

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So in less than a generation working class had climbed the playing of the guy as they are.

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James Weldon says in his book, which is a brilliant book, Cool the people's game.

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No greater indication exists of the changes to English football than the fact that by the early twentieth century the Corinthians, with their top hats and kinds, were utterly exceptional.

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In 1880 they would have been typical. So now some old boys teams did survive, like old Wigg Estonians, for example, who, lighter went on to become less descent.

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But also the working class started for me with their own teams.

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So, for example, rather than united, were formed in 1884, by working class name under a street lamp.

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You know, games of young working class Men loitered the streets at night then as well as now.

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Industrial towns and cities became heartlands of football.

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Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, leads New Castle, West Midlands, and East London.

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But why had the working class of industrial towns and cities so successfully?

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Me a late Well, there are a number of ways, and I want to examine each of these in turn.

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Muscular Christianity that the working class will already devotease, of of playing football, middle class patronage.

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The style of play that working class people brought to the game they're coming of the railways, the saturday half day holiday for working class people and professionalism were all important.

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So let's look at these in turn muscular question missionary work.

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The colonizing zeal of the public school sportsman was directed, especially at the most deprived, and, as they saw in deprived working class aliens.

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So for example, as Charles Core says in his book about West Ham, united the men from Upping on flocked in droves to the East End of London on missionary social world.

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As a consequence, Core says, the whole area became and still is, football man.

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To give you. some idea of that. This is happening. Marshes.

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Yeah, 5. The 19 sixties. When I played there Hackney marshes in the East End of London had a 150 football pitches, and on Saturdays every one of them was hosting again so

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you stand of London is absolutely football mad.

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And that happened in in other areas as well. Was it actually a new game that was brought to

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The working class, and they are those historians that argue that football wasn't simply an app upper class transplant onto working class communities that, despite the suppression of folk football, it had remind remarkably resilient in

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a more clandestine full. Oh, Sha! Also, as you, Cunningham says, It is true that those local traditional annual matches, ranging over huge spaces and involving whole populations, how had for the most part been

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abolished during the first half of the century in the nineteenth century.

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That is, but it seems highly likely that the more casual practice of kicking a bowl around practice much closer to the modern game of football had survived. I'm.

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Not a casual practice, of course, that continued late into the twentieth century.

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I can remember as I'm sure many of you can kicking a bowl around in the street with jumpers for gold posts when when I was a kid.

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Oh, so, as I said, the patronage of the bourgeois classes was important.

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For a while, so the facilities of the sponsorship provided by the bourgeois class employers chances, etc., was vital.

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Darling in mind that football was largely black band in public parts.

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But this didn't employ submission to the values of the rolling classes, as as we will.

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On the contrary, as we will say, as Cunningham says, the working class, for lack of any alternative, was prepared to accept along as as long as necessary.

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The fact of middle class sponsorship, but not its ideology.

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So part of the album flow of hegemonic struggle was transforming.

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Football into a means of expressing ideas in opposition to coincidence values.

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So rather than working, class leisure, being colonized by the middle classes, reconstructed for, always colonized by the working class and impregnated with working class values.

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Oh, so The values of that were the working class book to the game were more likely to be successful. As John Hargory says in his book, Working class football was characterized by vociferous partisanship a premium

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on victory, a suspicion of an a disdain for constituted authority, a lack of veneration for official rules.

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Mutual solidarity is the basis of teamwork, a preference for tangible monetary rewards for effort.

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And a hedonistic, vulgar festival.

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Now you can probably recognize some of these values in today's game.

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So in the making and the remaking of working class culture and i'll talk about Ap.

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Thompson. In a moment football became, in the word of Arthur Hotcraft in his book, the Football Man of another great book.

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It became not so much an opia of the people as a flag run up against the gaffer.

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Bolting his gates, and the Landlord armed with his balance in E. P.

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Thompson's book the making of the English working class. he suggests that in terms of its culture class is not a thing, but class is something that's constantly being made and remained so, giving the ruling classes a good

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thrashing on the football pitch was away for the working class of at least getting a small bit of revenge.

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I'm making the ruling classes feel uncomfortable for all the privations that they had visited on working class people

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Oh, styles of play were in port! so individualism or a heroic endeavor was characteristic of the gentleman.

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Amateur guine. Consequently the dribbling guy dominated elite football.

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It was about heroic endeavor. So to give you an example of that, the winning goal in the 1,874 varsity guy was scored by an opium who had dribbled the

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whole length of the pitch, However, the working class put greater emphasis on teamwork.

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The working costs were more used to divisions of live in their working life, but also they were more used to collectivist values, you know, through trade unions, through community values.

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And so these were more in keeping with working class experiences.

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So it seems to me there is no accident that within 2 years of the tripling guy being superseded by what's sometimes called the great transformation of football style.

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By the more effective passing game. it's no accident it seems to me that the working class came to dominant football.

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However, there were some who argue that geography was the more decisive back time.

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It was the Scots who had perfected the passing guy That's why Scotland be England more times the vice versa in international matches for the first 20 years, when professionalism kind.

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Many English clubs employed what they called Scottish professors.

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From the industrial heartlands of Scotland, and right up, and children are a constant stream of Scottish players move, moving south to English clubs, but also an important factor was improved.

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Transport, improve transport facilitated the possibility of regular fixedualists for working class teams.

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The building of the railways, in particular, was crucial before the railways were built.

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In the nineteenth century most people rarely moved out of the communities in which they lived.

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Eventually pretty well. were providing football specials to take fans as well as players to a way guides.

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And these football specials was still running up until the 19 eighties.

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So you can see here the expansion of the railway system between 1,851 and 1881, which was a crucial time for the development of football amongst the working class.

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But the development of travel bathrooms was also in port, also

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The Saturday half day Holiday was important in the mid nineteenth century.

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It was common for men to work 72 h a week.

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In other words, 6 days a week, 12 h a day. out.

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Of course football on Sunday was banned and it was banned until 1960.

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So there was no time to play football but strikes.

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During this period, just after the mid nineteenth century, led to the winning of the Saturday.

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Half day holiday, first by clocks and skilled workers in the 18 seventies, then by semi-skilled workers in the 18 eighties, and then by most laborers.

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In the it the lack what's the result of what's called New Unionism, which was the birth of very large general trade unions, mostly marxist orientated and committed to militant policies, and action, so during

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this period there were waves upon ways of national strikes in the 1,800 eightys in particular.

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Including a national dock Strike Gas Workers National Gas Workers strike deployment and Ma match girls strike and soul.

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So most of the by this time it achieved the 56 h week which gave the first opportunities for organizing leisure.

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And that's why 3 o'clock on a saturday became the normal or kickoff time.

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It gave working men time to get home from work to have some lunch to get changed and to get to a football.

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Are those players or spectators, and until we recently, of course, virtually all games kicked off at 3 o'clock on a Saturday, so the wisdom of the seasons, the traditional Tro Trove time got had been replaced

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by the rhythm of the weekly fixture list.

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This was part of the shift from the rhythms of traditional society to the rhythms of modernity.

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Lastly, was the advent of professionalism

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Through the notion of the gentleman amateur, the elite had been able to dominate the guy.

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It was the elite who decided how clubs should operate, and as a consequence they were always at an advantage.

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They don't dominated not only the way it was played, but also the vote, the rules, and they established and ran the governing body.

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The Football Association and by outlawing professionalism by what were able to exclude working class players, or least curtail their ability to compete on a level playing field.

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So, as Gary Wannell says in his book: The enshrine of the distinction between the amateur and the professional meant that gentlemen of leisure had a huge and permanent advantage over those whose work left

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little time for training and preparation, plus the fact that working class players were probably sharing out from their long hours of work.

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But of course we're much less fit because of the conditions that most working class people were raised in and into it during their lives, you know.

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So, for example, there was no free access to healthcare, which, of course, meant no healthcare at all.

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So the gradual breaking of the gentleman amateur code was vital for working class appropriation of the game.

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And it was this that also led to the gentleman amateurs, abandoning the guine in disgust.

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What vice, or as the perversion of their good works.

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And so it was that between 1880 and 1910 J.

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30 years the football became a central part of working class culture.

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Finally, I just want to say that much of this with specific regard to my club, West Ham united, you can read about in this new book.

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So this is a bit of promotional stuff they're not just had published.

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Okay, so that's, it, that's the end of the presentation. Thanks very much, Jack, and I don't know if you want to stop screen sharing now, and we'll have a look at some questions.

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And that was really a opening, and not sure about anyone else.

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But I certainly had no idea in about the game having its roots in the upper classes.

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Interesting that back. Then, as you said, that players were expected to accept the reflection without question.

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That certainly changed a little bit. hasn't it so right okay, let's have a look at some questions.

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No, i've got a couple of questions I think that are quite similar.

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Actually i'll read both of them out and then you can give us your your thoughts. You've kind of touched on some of this already.

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Question from John. Do you think many working players were taken in by the social engine eating even today middle and working class Professionally, football is rear.

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Even their massive wages rarely propel them into the upper class elite, and then also from Helen who's saying, You know it?

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It is astonishing that pretty much a 100% of British football is a working class.

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And yet this is not the case in Europe. and she gives the example of Jim Jian.

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Look at the Alley who was brought up in a castle I didn't know that. so what's your kind of take on that Dakota me Well, first of all I mean we're were they taken in

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by upper class social engineering, I think that's a difficult question to answer without kind of, you know, transporting myself back to that time to ask.

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But my feeling is that it's kind of 50 50 perhaps they were taken into some extent by that social engineering, because the muscular Christian missionaries didn't just use football I use the Bible.

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They used you know, other working class leisure.

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They provided public parks, and so on. So to some extent, I think the working class will take, I mean, but I think because you know, working class values were very different.

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I infused the the game with their their their own values.

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But I don't think that you know There was some working cost people that were probably more enlightened than others about what the middle and upper classes were attempting to do.

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So you know, perhaps a mixture as far as why.

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Why, working class in England, I think you know the game started in.

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Well, the modern game started in this country, but if you look at the history of folk, football folk, football was played throughout Europe, in various phones, in France, in Italy, and so on.

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And was that actually in Italy, for example? they There is a game called calcio which is still played today, which was an upper class guy, but he is very rough very very well, but I think so.

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I think the reason one of the reasons why it's mainly working class in this country and not necessarily in other countries is because because of the specific history.

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Oh, of the time in this country. but yeah I mean it's quite true that it's not you know the virtually all professional footballers in this country not the phone class that have come in but you know certainly those who grew up

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in Britain. come from working class backgrounds and there's certain areas. I mean.

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Yesterday we were in South London, for example, where you could throw a blanket over that area and come up with a dozen Premier League footballers.

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So i've got what was gonna say then Yeah, So you know, we you know they start out as working class.

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But you know It's a question that I deal dealt with in the course that I used to take about whether they're still working class.

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Once they become multi millionaires and you know we've just clients now being offered £400,000 a week.

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And many of them from working class backgrounds. Are they still working class?

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Well, I mean that depends on how you define class that's a whole, not like job.

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Okay, thanks, Jack. Okay. No, and I think we've got a couple of other questions.

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No! these are a a question from steve this is about refugees, and we're recipes ever people who look who were literally only referred to.

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If the players were unable to agree on decisions. So this is going back.

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We back. Yes, yes, I will. Yeah. when when it started in the public schools, if the 2 teams couldn't agree, they'd defer to a referee.

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In fact, there was. Originally there were 2 referees.

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There was one for each half of the pitch. so yes, they did.

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They did defer to the referee and say what's the decision. but and I would never question the decision of the rough worry.

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Not so today. Okay, question from Sue, in fact.

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So, too, sort of questions from sue what's the early winning by working class teams.

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Even more especially touched on this a little bit even more of an achievement, as they had to do.

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The hard manual work as well as play, where the amateurs and at what point did it become professional in the working class game?

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Well, if we take Blackburn Olympic, for example.

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2 of them Pliers had been brought in from Scotland.

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Now the team on the face of it were not professional, but they were offered a job.

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They were offered jobs in a local factory Blackburn. very good wages if they would play for Blackburn, Olympic and you know, if I would help train the rest of the team.

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I'm just rackie mark right now to think of the names of those 2 players I can't. but anyway, so you know it, it I won't professional as such you know that they would give inducements like that plus

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also, even though they were amateur they were often given expenses.

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And those expenses was sometimes very generous expenses.

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And and this was, and then so those that were in charge of the Fi elite decided eventually to ban even the paying of expenses.

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And what what happened Basically, what happened was the work in class team said, Well, you know, if this is what's going to happen, we'll set up the football League.

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They set up the football league which the elite gentleman didn't want anything to do with it.

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Where professionalism became part of and the football league was so successful that a gentleman amateur, you know, had had to relinquish control of the guy.

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But the control of they will relinquish control of playing the game.

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But they still held onto control of the Football Association for a while, and then the Football Association was kind of taken over by the middle class people rather than upper class people.

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And I mean, even when I was a kid, these people that came down from the Fa to watch games, they were known as the Blaze, because, you know, they dressed like middle class people in Lisa and Chess and ties how do I answer the question,

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piano. I think so. and so. At what point did the professionalism actually come in then, with the ?

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Okay, yeah. professionalism had established itself by then.

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Okay, no let's see. I think We might have another couple of questions, and then we'll help me to wrap up a thanks in since we started to be believe so.

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Can you say anything? This is from Andrew, and can you say anything about the clothes of football latches?

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Presumably the fact Working class clubs attracted much bigger grades helped to best of success.

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Yeah, It's interesting. The one of the things about the Blackburn Olympic victory which disturbed many of the elite was the Blackburn.

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Olympic bought thousands of supporters down for black with them.

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About 2,000, I think and they were very partisan, and this was against the spirit of the game was considered to be against the spirit of the guy.

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And yeah One of the things about the working class, you know.

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Adopting the game was that in the late nineteenth century.

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At first it was only a minority of working class people.

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The adopted. The guy far more adopted watching the game became spectators and the crowds group.

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I think the the fa cup final in it. So some 71 was watched by 2,000 people.

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Boy. The first part of the twentieth century clouds had climbed to something like 80,000 a cop.

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Find them and of course the first Wembley fa cup final in 1,923 was attended by an estimated because lots of working class people broke in without tickets.

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You know, they said hulganism was started in the sixties.

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No, it didn't there was an estimate 250,000 in Wembley that guy have a human touch line.

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So by the First World War it was taking off, and of course a lot of it was closed down during the First World War and it we started after the First World War when crowds became huge.

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Yeah, I've just noticed actually in the chat someone It's Steve not toll one of the most respected teachers at my school in Hackney, in the 19 seventies was Lori Leslie West dam player of

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the year 1,961 and Scotland team player from a topnam hotspace porter.

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It's funny because only yesterday I was writing about lori Leslie, because Leslie Leslie was the player that inspired me to become a goalkeeper.

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So isn't that strange Okay, right just looking at the time. and one quick question here from Mark is it not the case that nowadays public schools play Rugby rather than football.

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I think that's probably right. isn't it yeah I mean when when they abandoned the the the modern game of football, they did 2 things public schools I continue playing there own versions of football.

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And if you go to Eaton or haran or Westminster today, you'll see them applying their own versions.

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Football, but also most of those public, because the division between football and that you was how many gradually came about.

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You know. there's this myth that William Webex and Ellis picked the bowl up. Pick the ball up and man with it.

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And so rumpy was created that's myth there There were kind of rules that you know some schools where you could handle the ball as well as kick the board.

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So. so the distinction between Rugby and football only became a that came about gradually.

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But when the upper class is abandoned, what they abandoned football in its modern form.

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Yes, they took out more ramp the Union, and that the Union became, You know, the the upper class game, and it still is applied mostly in public schools, whereas Rugby League, which is played mostly in the North of England became the

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working class game of rugby and interesting like one phase question, And then we're gonna wrap things up cause that will then mean we've got through all the questions which is good.

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And this is this is a question about women's football from Steve, and he says,

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I know that until the if they stamped it out women's, football had to become very popular among both players and spectators.

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When did it start to become popular? I presume that when it originally started to become popular?

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Well, actually, this is another lecture that I do on on women's, football.

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The history of Women's football women played football from its inception when working class men start playing football.

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So so did women, and there was women's teams in the nineteenth century. But women's football became extremely popular during the first World War, because men were a wire at The front women were Both into factories

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particularly munitions factories. They started forming factory teams to play against one another, and a lot of those games were to try and raise money ex servicemen that were injured during the second World war and one of the

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most famous change of that Era were called Dick Kurz ladies and Dick Kurz ladies were so successful they became ambassadors for Women's football throughout the world.

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They traveled the world playing the the the winning sky.

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And you know one of their most famous players. Lily.

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Paul was an extremely good footballer, a best football or ever, but it became so popular, and, in fact, a lot of people don't realize this.

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But in the early 1,900 twenties some games we're attracting as crowds of 80,000 spectators.

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And but the fi didn't like this because it was dominated by name, and so that banned football a night band, clubs affiliated to the fi allowing women's football to take place,

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on their grounds. Now it did continue in a very clandestine form for 50 years after that, but it didn't die out, but virtually died out until the 1,966 world cup inspired many women to

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start playing again, and in 1971 because of pressure from women's tame.

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The game was unbanned, but even then the fi took a very patronizing attitude to the women's game.

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Right up until probably about 5 years ago. So they had to struggle to establish their game.

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Nice being on an equal footing to men and it still isn't on an equal it's getting there, though, isn't it?

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It's getting now. Yeah, okay, folks, I think that's us for tonight.

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Okay, Well, thank you, Fiona and Thank you, Everybody for allowing me to be here this afternoon to take a very brief journey around Australia and

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Look at some of the art works by some of the various diverse groups of first nations people that we have in Australia.

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I'm going to share my screen now, and I also just want to mention that, should you have any issues with my sound when anything like that, if you could just pop a note in the comments and hopefully, if you and we'll be able, to

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sort of help. address that for you also if you suddenly.

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See it. i've quickly grabbed my ear phones it's because the village hall next door are rehearsing their play, and if they start to get a little bit loud, I don't want it to interfere with

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the lecture, so I apologize. if I suddenly put some air phones on.

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So let's get started this evening, on our look at aboriginal art, and I want to begin if my screen will move forward.

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Come along. computer play nicely worked earlier it's a good stuff isn't it pressing away.

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Here we go. let's see why is it this back to rehearsal literally 5 min ago.

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So now, what's happening here? Hang on let me try and let me just try something here.

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Okay with that, with that , Okay, apologies for that So I'd like to begin this evening in the spirit of reconciliation by acknowledging australia's first nations, people as the traditional

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custodians of country throughout Australia, and acknowledge their connections to land, sea, and community.

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I would like to pay my respect to the elders past and present and extend that respect to all aboriginal and toy straight iron into people today.

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That that acknowledgement has now become a quite a standard.

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Actually to make in Australia, and I know we're not on aboriginal soil.

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This evening, but it is important for me to make that acknowledgement, because it helps me place aboriginal people first in this presentation that i'm about to make one of the other things I wanted to point out before we

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get started is that aboriginal? Australia is not a homogeneous group.

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There were before Cook landed on Australian soil, approximately 250 language groups, and around about 6 to 800 different dialects.

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Each of these language groups was a different country it was a different community plan tribe, a different people, and they each had their own stories, their own customs, The own way of managing the land, and what we're going to see shortly

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is their own artistic expressions. So we just have to remember that the aboriginal Australia is not one group.

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It is a multitude of countries and multitude of people.

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The other thing I just want to mention is, well, is this concept of the dreaming used to be called dream time.

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We tend not to use that word so much today, because it tends to have a connotation of the past and sort of sleepy sort of customs, when, in fact, it is very much a a current practice that is ongoing today

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the dreaming is not an aboriginal term it's white man's word.

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It's. it's white man's language to try to describe this complex system of beliefs and practices that informs their everyday lives.

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As as non aboriginal people. We might understand the dreaming as being the stories of creation and the interrelationship between aboriginal people and the land.

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But it's more than that and to help us try and understand that I've I've put this quote in here by an aboriginal elder by the name of Jimmy Herbert Mgalai Who's from the

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Northern territory, and she explains it as follows and i'll just read this out.

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She says, to get an insight into us is necessary to understand something about our major religious belief.

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The Jacoba. The Jacoba is an all-embracing concept that provides rules for living a moral code as well as rules for interacting with the natural environment.

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The philosophy behind it is holistic. The jacoba provides for a total integrated way of life.

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It is important to understand that for mobile sorry well perry and other aboriginal people living in remote aboriginal settlements.

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The dreaming isn't something that has been consigned to the past.

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It is a living daily reality. We, the war parry. people, believe in the Jacoba to this day.

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So for the Will Parry people. Jacoba is their language for what we would call dreaming.

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Different communities have different words for that. But another word that's gaining traction at the moment is something called the everyone, and this was a phrase that was coined by an anthropologist back in the 1,900 fiftys a

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gentleman by the name of William Staner, and he used this word the everyone to try and encapsulate the way in which dreaming is past, present, and future.

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All at the same time. it's everyone every time every being but again.

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It's white man's terms so when we can if possible.

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We want to try and use aboriginal language but you know it's not a language that many of us speak what I certainly don't.

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But I thought it might be useful to just explain some of the words that you might hear associated with aboriginal art.

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So let's start to have a look at some of this artwork then, and we need to understand that at the same time aboriginal art is both the oldest continuous artistic tradition, and also at the same time the

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newest movement within the world of contemporary art forms So it's the old and new or mixing together, and i'm going to start looking at one of the very old forms of artwork an artwork that's was

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traditionally painted on box, and is believed to date back to around 2,000 Bc.

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And that's this sort of style of x-ray art. It continues today, and we're we're going to look at a more contemporary pieces of X-ray art in a moment.

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But then, now the X-ray arts and style of art would be used to portray both secular creatures.

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So in this image here we've got fish and and if you look at those we can see the spine of the fish down the center, and that's what gives its Its name.

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X-ray style. but artists would also portray creation, spirits, and their ancestral beings in this style as well.

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So I want us to have a look at an artist by the name of Baile, lofty because he was very tall, bad.

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I al lofty Nagameric and he came from the Arnament, which is right at the very far north of Austria, of Northern territory in the far north of Australia.

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So we've got a little map here to help you sort of see that and by all was considered to be the last of the great lock painters and a custodian of knowledge for his people as an elder He officiated

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at many ceremonies, and as a teacher he spent his latter years ensuring that the knowledge that he had of his country and his people's engagement with the country was passed on to both aboriginal and

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non-aboriginal people. it's because of what he taught to filmmakers, anthropologists, botanists, linguists, all sorts of academics who went to sit and speak with him in country and we've

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been able to expand our knowledge of indigenous culture as much as we have.

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But I all started to paint onto paper in the 1,900 sixtys.

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So traditionally aboriginal artists didn't paint on paper or canvas.

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It's it's purely because white man came along saw the work that they were doing on rocks or on in the sand, or the they.

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It symbols on their bodies during ceremony, and deciding they thought it would look nice hanging in art galleries that we now have it on canvas, and And paper.

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So he started to paint back in the 1,900 sixtys, and the technique that he used is something called vark are a Rrk.

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We also call it cross. hatching it's very very fine brush strokes, and we can see that in this image here of an emu

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We can also see in this image the the the backbone of the Eu.

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We can see the gastrointestinal tract, the stomach

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And we can see the the bones of the thighs, the big thigh bones.

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In this particular image as well, the next image I show you we're going to be able to see better the fine brush strokes. So i'm just gonna tip the slide over this particular image here and like the last one this

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is using natural ochres on paper to to create this image.

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This particular one is the female black rock Waller be, and a kidna.

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Now the time of the painting, which is female black rock, Wallace and a kidna also fails to mention that there's a go on in the image as well, and a boomerang or hunting stick so we can get the

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idea from this that this is a secular image that's showing us creatures that can be hunted for food.

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And we can see here the very fine brush strokes I'm just going to see if I can zoom in a little bit, so you can get a better look if I zoom in on this section here for instance, and you can

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see how fine those brush strokes are and We can see that we've got the the lungs.

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We've got the stomach we've got the intestines down here by zoom back out again, and we've got that for the kangaroo and the echidna we've got the digestive system of the

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kidna going along here like the way out the bottom and very, very beautifully executed.

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Images. and so here we can see a really good understanding of being anatomy of

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These animals, but it wasn't just the secular images that baile painted this particular one here.

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I'll just bear with me on the moment i'm not sure whether you can all see that.

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But there we go. This particular image here is a painting called Emu dreaming

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So it's the story of how the emu lost its wings. So it's a dreaming story, and the story goes that the emu was running away from some men So here we have the emu in the center of the

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painting, and it's being highed by these 2 men Here they've got their hunting sticks their spears in their hand, and they're 2 dogs that are also part of the hunting party.

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So the Amu is running away from these people and it runs into a group of trees, and it runs into the trees so fast that it collides with some trees, and the impact of that collision forces the emu's wings to fall

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off, and there's the e news wings up here they've fallen off. and so that's the story of how the email lost its wings, and why they can't fly we can also see in this particular painting the

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artist's hands and this is a traditional technique that's particularly rock artists would do to leave their hand imprints on the rock to show that they have been there. to it's almost like their

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signature and what they would do is they would hold the paint in their mouth.

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I put their hand on the rock, and then they would basically spit and spray the paint.

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So they would then leave that silhouette of their hands At the end of the presentation I've put a couple of slides that have got further reading or further resources that you might like to investigate, and there's a

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beautiful two-part documentary that i've put the link to about by day out, and his painting and and the teaching that he did.

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And you can see his grandson doing that as he's setting up an exhibition of badale's work in in one of the art galleries.

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Maybe on from bark painting and originally block painting we're gonna look very briefly at dot painting, which is, I think it's the other style of aboriginal art that we're probably most familiar with

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This originated in a place called Paponia, which is about 150 miles northwest of Alice Springs in the central desert, and dot paintings are to westernize very beautiful very abstract images, but

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they're also full of symbols and say good meanings and there's certain images that we won't ever be able to see, because their ceremony or their men's business or it's women's business and they won't

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share those particular images. that that there's you know specifically for them.

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But the way that this particular style of painting kind of got to public attention was back in the early 19 seventies.

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That was a teacher by the name of Jeffrey Barden, who was working up in California, and he noticed that quite often the children from the school that he was teaching at would so believe the school and go and sit with the elders

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who were drawing patterns in the sand as he started to investigate.

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He learnt, but it wasn't just patterns that they were drawing.

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They would tell stories and singing song lines and passing on knowledge to the children.

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And so he approached them and asked them if they would be interested in painting a mural on the wall of the school, and you know, using one of their stories to to do that which they did.

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This This is a photograph here of some of the men that painted the honey and dreaming story on the outside of the the school, and that was the beginning of the Paponia taller art movement which continues today.

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1972. They established their own company.

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It continues today, and it's run entirely by aboriginal artists.

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There's about 120 aboriginal artists I think now and

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They had all the directors of the organizational aboriginal elders as well.

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So it's a completely autonomous organization one of the best known of the artists to come out of the the central desert.

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And Paponia was a chat. by the name of Clifford Possum, Japaljari and Clipper Possum is in all major collections in Australia.

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He's in international collections as well and he was working back in the early 19 seventies.

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He was working on a cattle station not far from California, and he would go to Paponia to visit his brother and his cousin, and he saw the artists there, and he got quite interested in what they were doing and started to

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explore the artwork, and he became very good at it, and he became a leading name in the area.

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And one of the things that Clifford Possum did was he actually started to put together a lexicon of all the symbols that were used to tell the story of his country, and all the story that he told the most was possum dreaming that was

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sort of his story his family stored. They were custodians of, and in this particular image, which would possum dreaming from 1919, 80, something there with me a minute, 1983 sorry.

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And we can see in here we can see the possums footprints.

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Okay, So this this line here, this is the the mark in the sand that the possums tail leaves as it's crossing through country.

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And these are the possums footprints and we've got water holes that it comes across as it's searching for food, and all these different colors are the different vegetation that is in country But the possum would

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cross through. Now it is possible that this is the foliage throughout all seasons.

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I haven't found anything specifically to say that this is what Clifford Possum was doing.

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But shortly we're going to see another art another painting. that's another desert painting, but from a different area, and they talk about how that is all the seasons all in one painting.

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And it is possible that what we're seeing here is sort of foliage after it's been burnt foliage when it's in full flower, and we'll see that again shortly this is another one of

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Clifford parsons possum dreaming paintings this one's from 1994, and again we can see the person's footprints.

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But we also have man's footprints human footprints in here.

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So in this particular painting it's possible that we've not only got the possum traveling through the land looking for his food, and in this case we've got the poster's food here, So this is the

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vegetation with the barriers and flowers at the bottom would eat. but it's possible that we've also got man tracking the possum for food, because they would eat possum as a as a source of

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protein. And again, you know, the colors are just phenomenal, really, and these paintings are huge.

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This paintings over 3 meters by 2 meters.

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It is a big painting and when it was exhibited in the art gallery of South Australia rather than it being hung on the wall, which is what we were doing Western art traditions, it was exhibited on the floor, so that

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we were able to actually view it as it was painted because these paintings are painted with the canvas on the floor, and the artists sitting cross-legged next to the canvas painting with their paint and

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the stick, and there's a wonderful story about How somebody once bought Clifford Possum Japaljari, an amazing sable head paint brush to help him create these beautiful images.

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And the first thing he did was break the brush bit off, and just use the stick, because that was all he needed for the dots was the stick.

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He didn't need a fancy brush so we're going to move on now, and we're going to look beyond the dots, and whilst the dots of the central desert and the rock painting of

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Arnem land might be what we traditionally associate with aboriginal art.

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We can find all sorts of artworks. a lot of contemporary artists today are soed in Western art style.

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So we're gonna see portraiture we're gonna see sculpture.

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I don't actually have any photography included in this presentation.

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But there are some phenomenal aboriginal artists whose medium is photography as well.

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So we're going to start by looking at something that is a little bit similar to the dot painting, but also quite different.

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Been looking at artworks that have been created by one artist at a time, and the next 2 groups that we're going to look at are collectives.

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So this particular painting here was painted by 8 women at the same time.

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And this is Women's business this is women telling the story of their land.

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As well as the 7 sisters song story i'm going to move on to the next slide, because that's a much vega image.

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So while I'm talking, you can just be having a looking look at this marvelous painting, and i'll go into a detail with it.

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I'm just come to here for a moment so that gives you a better sort of image of what we're talking about.

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But the 7 Sisters song cycle is an important story in aboriginal culture in Australia.

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It's the story of some 7 sisters who are being pursued by a man he wanted to marry one of the sisters, but they were of the long skin group, and so it would have been against their law for him to marry

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them. so in order to protect the sister that he wanted to marry all 7 sisters fled across country and it's the play D's Constellation, the Star Constellation and it's the play d's as it

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crosses the Australia, Nice guy being pursued by the morning scar, which is the man who's chasing the sister that he wants to marry; and as the sisters also from the central desert over towards the coast of western Australia, they stop at various

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places. When they're tired, and in stopping they form rocks, they form trees, they form water holes, and then they move on.

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Once they've rested, and they they carry on over towards the coast, and in this particular painting here at the very top you can see 7 little circles and that's the 7 sisters and just below them just here

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we've got the man that's pursuing them.

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But this painting is more than the song line it's also an encyclopedic knowledge of country.

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I'm gonna go back to a quote now from one of the artists.

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This is the artist statement and i'll read this out the artists say we are sisters, mothers, daughters, grandmothers, aunties, and naces.

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We are painters. we are more to women caring from our country.

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We hunt in this country to look after it. we burn, then gather the bush fruit, we burn it, and the animals eat the wauwau, the green shoots.

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Then they get fat, and we hunt and eat the animals. Noana kangaroo, busted cat.

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We all are telling lots of stories about hunting in the Pangu area.

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All of the women putting their stories together on a big canvas it's a special to teach others.

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Martin and non-marto. We live now, and also have in this country this country is us.

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We need to share it and talk about it and protect it.

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Keep it strong. And so, as I mentioned, there was 8 women painting this image, and as they painted they they talked.

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They told the stories of land they shared their knowledge, they laughed, they ate, they mourned the loss of friends and family that died while the painting was being created.

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It took them 8, 10 days to paint this particular painting.

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People came and visited them and and looked at it if we look we can see what I was saying about how it's all seasons represented in one.

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Go, because over here, down in this area here this quite bright colors patchwork down here that's recently burnt country.

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So it's recently burnt country with new new growth. just starting to come through up over here fortunately. it's just behind.

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So let me just gonna see if I can get rid of that.

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Sorry. There we go over here. we've got the black ash a very recent burnt area, and they talk about how this is good when you're wanting to hunt.

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Go on because you can really see the tracks in that ash over here.

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We've got foliage that's 2 or 3 years it's been burnt, and we're starting to get the bush fruit.

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We growing here. So we've got bush plums and native currents and all sorts of foods starting to grow here again after a couple of years of a fire.

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And then over here in this bit we've got sand hills and in here we get wattle growing, and the seeds are edible, and we're told that Wichita grubs live in the roots So again,

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another food source. This section up here is the community oval so we're we're seeing the whole community the whole land, and we're seeing different seasons all in the same time.

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The white lines that divide this painting are the creek beds to hear.

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And here we've got the creek beds and then this circle here and here and another one. just here.

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These are the walls. So it's really important knowledge that the Mar.

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2 women are sharing with the younger women, so that they understand how to live and look after their country.

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So good. Move on from that group of women to another group of women.

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Another collective, and this time the Chompy desert waivers.

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And those of you that might be cany enough to quickly count the numbers of sculptures that they're holding up.

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There's 7 and that's because this is another song system 7 Sisters song story that we've got just there.

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So this is a dip. How another community in a different area or representing it.

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So we've we've started up up up here in Arnham.

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Land. we've moved down here into the Desert for the dots. The last ladies we saw from Roburn were over here.

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The Mar 2 women, and we now down here, and the area actually crosses over into the northern territory.

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South Australia and Western Australia. this particular area where the chompy desert weavers and, i'm waiting with one, and remains a very important skill for aboriginal people.

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They weave baskets and fish traps, so they they, you know, useful implements.

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But they also use it for sculpture. and back in about early 19 nineties.

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They, A. A weaving workshop was set up in an area called Blackstone, which is in in near Calgory.

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In this area. on here. to teach women that had lost the techniques of waving, to, to teach them how to weave again.

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And it it just spread like wildfire. And before they knew it they were winning international, optional, international, national, aboriginal, toistry, islander awards.

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This is called the chompy toyota it's for me to buy 2 meter model of a toyota.

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You and you can see a photograph of it there with the the women.

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There's children sitting in the back It sort of is a visual encapsulation of their engagement of of land.

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Jennifer Mitchell, one of the champion weavers, says: when we go out to get Chompy and Chompy is the word in their language for dry grass.

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When we go out to get Chompy we fill the car up with the ladies and kids.

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We get out our digging sticks, and our bill is, and everything we need.

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We love to get out bush. we know we will find some champion, but who knows what else?

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We will find Maku Witch to grabs.

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Oh, honors, or honey ants, or any sort of bush food.

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We like to be in the country with the kids, to walk around to show them different things, and to feel the country all around country is family to us, too, and when the Chompy desert weavers were awarded this

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aboriginal and Toy Street Island of Arts, prize in 2,005.

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It was the first time that fiber art had Ward been awarded recognition with this prize, and they went on again to create this phenomenal sculpture, which is again.

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The 7 Sisters. So you you can see how important the 7 Sisters song story is to aboriginal culture, because it is one that does get represented again and again, and again.

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And I don't know some of you May have been lucky enough to get down to Plymouth to the box to see the 7 Sisters song Lines Exhibition.

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This was one of the pieces that was on display there, and the way they make it is they use a stel and chicken wire substructure, and then they they cover it with various different things with obviously with chompy with

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with grass with rafia in these particular ones they've used recycled second-hand clothing.

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They've used fleece from sheep that they've gathered. There's eu feathers quite variety of different things that have been woven into create these sculptures, and in this particular region of

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Australia. The 7 sisters take the form of trees to escape the man who is pursuing them, and so we can see in these sculptures the sort of the branches of the trees and the roots of the trees as

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well, and and in the gallery space, just a little way off to one side is another small little sculpture sat down, and that's the man pursuing them at a at a distance.

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Watching them and keeping an eye on them, so that mar marvelous sculptures and and they still do weave traditional baskets and things.

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And again I've put a link at the end of the presentation, so you can go and see a little tutorial with one of the Chompy desert weavers as she instructs you how to get your

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Chompy, and weave it into a little bowl for those of you that might want to give that a go.

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So we've been looking at artists who are living in rural areas.

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The last 2 artists are going to look at are urban artists, and both of them have been schooled in traditional Western style.

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Art practice, and they use that to subvert to dish some of the colonial stories.

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Some of the settler stories about Australia's history to reinsert their people into Australian history.

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The first one We're going to Look at is an artist by the name of Julie Dowling, and Julie was born in Sybacco, which is Nip.

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What suburb of Perth and that's just down here?

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But have her people originally were Banda, Maya, and Julie identifies herself as and calls herself, Abandon my first nation.

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Woman. That's the language that she uses so again. so we've moved from up here into the center over to the

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I've lost my hour there we go over to Robert down to this part of Australia.

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And now we're looking at an artist who is based here so,

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Andmaya woman currently living in Perth, which is new.

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Our land. and julie's work engaged a lot with family history.

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She's a brilliant Portrait artist and This particular first one we're going to look at is portrait called Melbourne, and this is Julie's great great grandmother.

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It was an aboriginal woman, living at the time.

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The late nineteenth early twentieth century. She She died early in the early 19 hundreds.

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And it's a very striking Portrait that she's painted here of Melbourne.

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We can see Melbourne in Western clothing.

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She doesn't look at all happy about it she has a label on her arm.

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Just here, and this label is indicative of both ownership, like you would put a a luggage tag on a suitcase, but also indicative of the labeling of specimens, because Melbourne

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was moved around the country, and exhibited as a specimen, which was something that happened quite a lot in the nineteenth century, when aboriginal people were brought to Europe and exhibited in the the great exhibitions

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in in London and in in Paris, behind Melbourne we can see a sea of aboriginal faces.

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And and this is sort of Julie letting us know what is behind settler culture.

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We see a halo around melbourne as well and on that halo.

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We've got the ships that brought the settlers to Australia.

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We've got the shackles that initially were worn by prisoners, but later we're worn by aboriginal people.

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We can also see, and unfortunately, this doesn't come across in in sort of reproductions of Julie's work, but Julie uses a lot of glitter in her paint when she's painting additional

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symbols, and if I just zoom in to this section here it's not the best reproduction.

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I do apologize, but we can see footprints in here so traditional iconography.

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We can see the circle here, which is perhaps indicative of a water hole.

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We can see stars just over here. it's very faint but there's a lizard, so she she uses this glitter paint in a very clever way.

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Because it forces us to be drawn into the images, and we see something that we think we understand it.

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And then we look to see what's that sparkly bit and we see the story behind the initial image.

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So this painting, as I say, is it? I see that painting of Melbourne and Julie gives Melbourne her voice back in a way, because in 2,004 she he paints Melbourne as she would

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have been traditionally before settle settlement. she paints her in her native land, in her country, the kangaroo cloak and her hunting stick.

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She's a proud warrior woman can see the fire in the background.

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There's a camp in the background. and She's the gaze is very strong in in Melbourne in this particular one, and you'll also know that the title of the painting is melbourne's

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indigenous name, her aboriginal name it's no longer the name that white man gave her.

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So She's you know she's given as I said She's given Melbourne her voice back she went on Confederation. So Federations 2,001 and that was the 100 year celebration of Australia

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all the States of Australia coming together in 1,901, to become Australia, as we know it today.

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And she did this series of paintings it's 10 individual paintings that are exhibited together in in this series, and it's a member of her family for each decade of federation.

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So we have the portrait in the center, and we start up here with Melbourne, and we finished down here with Julie herself, with a self portator.

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Julie. This is her twin sister Carol in the painting next to her, and each one is a is a family member of Julius, and the background imagery reflect something that was happening at that time.

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So if we look closer at this one, this is the third image in the series, and this is Auntie dot 1920 to 1930, and on the back of the painting Julie has written the following words

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Auntie Dot, by Julie Dowling, May.

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2,001 acrylic red ochre and plastic on canvas.

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This painting shows my great auntie, Dorothy Latham, who was taken away from her Badmayer mother, and putting to an orphanage by her Wagella White father when she was 8 years old, at

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the time there were massacres in the Kimberly in the northwest of Wa.

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So we can see in the background imagery We can see soldiers, police officials here, shooting at aboriginal people.

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So that's the massacre that julie refers to we've got the mission as we come down.

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This is the mission here. the aboriginal people, and we can see Auntie Dot being taken away.

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So this is the story of the stolen generation so Julie's telling us that you know her family were part of the stolen generation.

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So they're very powerful paintings julie's paintings, and she's very well regarded again.

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She's in all the poor collections, both national and international. so there is a chance that you may encounter a jury downing, painting, and your travels.

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The last. artist I want to look at today. is another ur urban aboriginal artist and who's been schooled in in Western style, and that's Danny Mella and Danny Miller is over here

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He was born in Mackay on the East Coast, and Danny talks about how he has both Wh. European and aboriginal heritage, and this is reflected in his work because his work discusses ideas around shared culture.

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As well as colonialization and identity. His father was American and Australian, and his mother was Irish and mamma.

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So, Mamu are the first nations people who are in the rainforests.

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Up in Queensland and he's another winner of the toughest national aboriginal toll straight Islander award.

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So with his background. it's not surprising that his work looks at sort of ideas around the culture that we share not not just

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What's yours, and what's mine sort of thing Danny has for a number of years.

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Now adopted this blue color in all His work it's he calls it a colonizing color.

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This blue color didn't exist with aboriginal artists prior to white People's arrival in Australia, and one of the reasons he uses it so much is because of spode pottery.

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He's quite interested in this idea of how a pottery Company in England.

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Could utilize image rate that's sort of from the orient in its willow pattern.

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China create t sets in the Uk that then travel all the way over to Australia.

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And and sort of you know, then be used by early settlers.

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So this idea of culture sort of moving around the world and in this particular image here he's looking at

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What we share is so much is what we have differences, because this is all about how both Western culture and aboriginal cultures have secret business.

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So this image is of the interior of a masonic too large secret men's business inside the lodge.

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We've got some aboriginal men performing ceremony, secret men's, business, and so it's the similarity.

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The shared ideas within culture that he's looking at in in this particular painting.

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The blue, as I say, resonates through a lot of his work, and these images are exquisitely drawn.

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Danny Mala uses pastel and pencil and ink.

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Wash to create these images and and they're they're often filled with native animals or aboriginal people, and they're the only things that have color.

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The rest is this blue background? And then you've got the the birds and the the the kangaroos, and possums, and various other animals that are in in color.

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He did an exhibition back in 2,008, which was a kind of metropolitan of the last 10 years of the sort of work that he'd been doing.

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And a lot of these paintings that are that were in the image.

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They hark back to the early artists of of Australia.

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Back in the early nineteenth century that were painting images of Australia that were then sent back to to England, and very few of them had aboriginal people in them.

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So what Danny Miller does is he puts the aboriginal people back into the paintings.

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He also does these amazing sculptures of aboriginal animals and birds, and the kangaroos are something that he does.

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Quite a few of these and they're they're covered in mosaics, and quite often he will use broken bits of spode pottery in the mosaic and I want to finish with this particular image we're coming very

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close to the jubilee so it's probably quite appropriate that we have an installation that's called red, white, and blue, reflecting the colors of the Union Jack and the Australian flag and we have

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these life-sized sculptures of kangaroo here that actually have real pause there's a little bit of taxes army in this as well, because they've got real paws and real ears But

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the bodies are mosaic, and they made using quite a bit of speed pottery and

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But when we look closer at these 3 kangaroos here, I'm gonna zoom in on that.

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We can see that they are reflecting those infamous monkeys?

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They are seeing no evil, hearing no evil, and speaking no evil.

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And in a very clever way, danny madam is making us realize just how much we still don't acknowledge in Australia's colonial past, and the stories that we still refuse to here and see and speak about so i'm going

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to end there. we have got i'm just going to pop back to that.

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So i'll just show you that when you're looking at this presentation some further links that you can then click on to in your own time and see some videos here.

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The artists singing stories. and things like that but for now i'll stop sharing my screen and have free. Somebody's got some questions. Yeah, we do.

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That was absolutely brilliant, and telescope.

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, and by the way, all those links that today are just shared with you, there will make them available beside the recording on the members of the website sometime next week when we've got it already So right let's start

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with some questions. Shall we no where should we start no this was not let's let's give it a call.

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Let's see what happens. Alright So first question from veranda, And she wondered if you could maybe explain a little bit more about the concept of Songlines and song stories right that's it Yeah, Really, Really, good question,

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Miranda. There was a book, I think, by somebody called Bruce Chad.

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Well, I think if somebody knows the authors act you will know if I've got that one, please pop it in the chat.

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But he spoke about song lines, and he kind of create Chadwin.

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Thank you. He kind of created this idea that they were songs and stories and things like that.

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And is it not quite right to be fair? Songlines are a concept that white Australians struggle to understand, because it is something that is so alien to our life?

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But it is to do with dreamings and it's to do with pathways through Australia.

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Where ancestral spirit beings would have traveled when Australia was being created.

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So like the song story about the 7 Sisters. That song line travels through Australia through several different countries, with a first nations people, and the the 7 Sisters are helping to create the shape of Australia.

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And so they're creating landmarks they're creating water holes.

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They're creating rivers and so this is what these song lines are. It's all part of the original creation stories, but they're not just in the past. it's they're present as well and so these stories have to

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be repeated. They have to be sung, they have to walk the lines and the pathways to not only pay respect to the elder, to the the ancestors and the elders, but also to ensure that you know the spirit being that

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looks after the water hole, knows that they are still there, and still respecting and looking after that water hole, and continues to provide fresh water for them.

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So they're to do with the creation of Australia but they're also to do with the way Australia is still looked after and cared for today.

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It's really, really complicated and I'm Sorry that probably hasn't helped much, Miranda. absolutely it helps a little bit.

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Okay, Thank you, Teresa and and so following on from that We've got questions from Liz at the start of the lecture.

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You talked about 250 different language groups within and Australia and the peoples, and she's asking, Did all of those groups share the same spiritual ideas and stories?

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Or are they all different? So some are different so some are area specific So you won't get stories about saltwater alligators in the central desert, because obviously salt water. alligators don't live there so some of

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them are specific to areas, but some of them are universal.

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But the way in which they are taught so through the very ceremony, song lines, artworks will be different.

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So Yeah. So this is a little bit of both. Okay, Thank you.

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Thank you, and a question from frieda no she's asking about, and forgive me.

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I can't remember which painting it was that she was referring to, and there was a painting.

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It was quite near the start after we were talking about Copenhagen and pink footprints.

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Are they over women? Is that a significance of the color?

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No, they they don't tend to have that sort of pink for girls and blue for boys thing it's possibly more to do with the color of the sand in in that area. or the color of the vegetation is what

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It's more likely to be . Okay, thank you no Do we have the question from clear?

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Let me just scroll down so I can find it. here we are.

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When we were looking at the pinch of Melbourne, and by Julie doubling you'd refer to the shackles.

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At what point was that you talked about? You know the the settlers wearing them, and then the aboriginal people wearing them.

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At what point did that happen? So when the convicts were brought to Australia, so the the late eighteenth, 30, nineteenth centuries, they would have been in in shackles.

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Very quickly the aboriginal people were shackled, because as soon as the settlers started to click blame land for themselves, the ideas of ownership between European culture and first nations people was so different.

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That it. it led to to war, and and fights and and conflict.

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And so it it became. you know you are either killed the aboriginal people on your land, or they were imprisoned.

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There's an island off of Perth in Western Australia, that if any of you have been to Perth for holiday.

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You may well have been to Rock Nest Island. That was an aboriginal prison.

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For many years, and There's There's an artist by the name of Sally Morgan.

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If you wanted to sort of have a look at some of her work, and she's done some amazing paintings of Rottenest Island, where you see the aboriginal people under underneath in the sort of buried in the

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dirt in shackled, and and then the holiday makers on top of it today, having nice nice time.

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So it was it very. It very quickly happened with the set of cultures, because it was.

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It was a way they the settlers were trying to protect their land. interesting.

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No, we've got a question here from madeline I guess. talking about some of the the more contemporary arts that you were talking about towards them there.

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So she's basically asking. So is there a lot of protest in the art today, I suspect huge huge amount modeling huge amount.

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I I tried not to, I mean I the I mentioned a little bit with with Julie Downing, but I didn't want to go into it too much.

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Because it can become really upsetting for for people when you start to talk about

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The the treatment of first nations people since Settlers are arrived, and the ongoing denial of What's happened, and yes, we had sorry day when the then Prime Minister Kevin read apologized to Aboriginal

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toy straight islanders for what happened but reconciliation still hasn't happened.

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And so a lot of the urban artists are social protest artists, and they're telling the the store their stories.

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And what is good for them and bad for white Australia is that white Australia kept phenomenal records of all the children it stole from it's their families, and they've been able to go back and you know see

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letters from the so-called protector of aborigines that were saying, Oh, we know No, no we can't possibly let you see your child.

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It's no good for your child. to see you and things like that. and and they use this in their art to tell their stories. and it's very confronting.

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Okay, questions from Hanelle and I hope i'm pronouncing this correct?

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Would you be able to say anything about the 1 one genus W. A.

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N d g I n a s fleet it's not a oh, one.

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Genes want to know it's my pronunciation.

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Little bit because we had. We had some on bark in the art gallery in in Perth.

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The one's gonna the tie can from what I can remember, is is one of the ancestral spirit beings that's responsible for water sources.

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So it would it would they're often painted on rocks near water supplies, and they in the in the areas where the one Jenner lives.

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They will often go back and paint the one ginner every year.

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It's almost like part of the ceremony to have respect.

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So you know you kind of go back there, you They would sing the story.

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They would repaint the one Gina to make sure that the one Gina knew that they were.

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Still, you know, they were still paying homage for one of the better word for it, and a few years ago there was a young young graffiti artist in Perth who was going around painting the image of the one Jinner, because it's

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quite a striking image. i'm i'm gonna so very quickly, while I'm talking, see if I can just to show you because you might sort of recognize this is an important polling image of a one dinner.

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But it's that kind of no it doesn't show up Is that kind of thing really really bad, and my apologies to all aboriginal and toystate islanders for that atrocious image But the

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elders of the community, where the one, you know, actually lives.

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Track down this young guy, and explain to him that it was really bad to paint the ones, you know where the one Gina doesn't live.

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It's disrespectful to culture. They still have a few issues with it, because it is a very striking image for graffiti artists.

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But but yeah, that's a little bit about the one Jenna. Okay, lovely.

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Thank you and a quick question from sue she loves the concept of everyone she's asking, is it a bit like universal consciousness, young and Zen.

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Oh, well, I i'm not an expert on young and universal consciousness, but possibly it it it might be so.

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Although well, I don't know because I really don't understand universal consciousness.

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So I don't know whether that's? this universal consciousness Is that like collective thinking?

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I I don't really know it it could be i'm not really sure.

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Sorry I can't I can try and look at that.

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And you know, maybe if this extra questions I can see if I can find the answer to that and add that into it.

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Okay, no, I think we've got a couple more questions and then I think we'll have to wrap things up and question from Sheila.

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Stop talking about the aboriginal group sense of scale huge Sky continent women's collective painting seems as looking from space or a drone. Yes,

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A lot of desert art sheila does have that aerial perspective, and how they do that we don't know it's they have a different way of seeing I can remember once being in the art gallery in

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Perth and walking through the gallery space, and there was some drone photographs of the the country.

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And as you move through that space, and then you moved into some of the aerial aboriginal desert images.

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You kind of felt how how have they done that how have they cause they don't have a drone how they've done that, and it's it.

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They hold it in their head. they see things differently. But yes, it absolutely does have that sort of area for photography and look about it.

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Okay, lovely. Okay, We've got one more question I think and then we will wrap things up.

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Folks. No, I've just lost it We is it there we are

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This is from Steve are the first nation artists, viewed in the same way as our artists, ie.

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People who are special creative imaginative. Yes, in a word, there's because of the problems that still exist within Australia generally.

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In relation to reconciliation between first nations people and white Australians on non apparition Australians.

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You do seem to be if you wanna aboriginal artist, or if you are an aboriginal footballer, Australian roles. Footballer, you are. You are kind of held in in respect having said that, there was

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an I can't remember exactly how many years ago now within 10 years ago.

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I think, Commentator in Australia, Guy by the name of Andrew Bolt, who's a a right-wing commentator, and he accused a number of aboriginal people, one of whom was done in mella of not

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being black enough to be aboriginal and he he wrote a piece saying that he didn't deserve to win the aboriginal toy straight Island at R toward and that he was taking that away from proper

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aboriginal people in the desert who really needed that sort of mechanism.

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There was a number of people that he accused that sort of thing of, and it he was taken to court, and he was found to have contraband the racial discrimination act.

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So yes, you are revered in a way but only to a point.

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Don't want across the line of being a good aborigine that's that's when the the trust is broken.

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Right i've got a squeeze in one final question and then we're definitely done.

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This is from sue and I don't know if this is question. you can answer, but let's let's let's have a goal, and does the desert arts have similarities with the Nasa lines, and peru that also kind of appear from an

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aerial perspective now, so that's a really interesting question and I don't know about the Nasa lines in Peru, but there is a similarity between Australian desert art and the ancient Egyptian art there's one

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particular artist. His name escapes me, but I will put the i'll put it in something for Fiona say that she can get it to a female artist and she paints the night sky.

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And she does these amazing stars. And when I went to Egypt more years ago than I care to remember and we were in the Valley of the Kings, and we were in one of the tombs, and I looked up and the

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the sign, the symbols painted on the ceiling of this tomb in ancient Egypt were the same as this aboriginal woman's symbols.

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So there has to be something that links desert people when they look at the night sky, and they tell their stories.

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Whether they're in Peru the center of Australia or in ancient Egypt.

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There was something that linked them. Yeah. Well, that was fabulous, Tadsa.

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I think everybody enjoyed that. I hope and as I said Amanda.

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We'll make the links that Telisa talked about available beside the recording on the members area of the website.

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In due course next week, and once we've got them so thank you to these that was fantastic.

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You're welcome, thank you everyone for listening

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And everybody. If you could fill that in for me.

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That would be fantastic. and while you are all doing that i'll tell you about what's happening next week.

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So we've got something very very different for you a bit social history again.

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But this time the history of football and completely different with the modern game, beginning in the public schools in the mid nineteenth century, will be exploring the reasons why the working class came to dominate the game, and to make it the

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people's game, so that should be really quite interesting thing and a little bit different for us as well.

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And I think that is us for this evening. I hope you all enjoyed that.

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May is local history month it's been organized for a long time.

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Maybe the historical association with the aim of awareness of local history for modern history in general, and encouraging the local community to participate.

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And really my own experience of researching and talking about and sharing aspects of classicals, hosting history, and especially elements of tenants.

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Experience and various hosting movements has been from a non academic point of view.

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It's been feigning material and different libraries and archives through chance conversations with people following threads naming up places.

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A number thought i'd be so I think that really is in the spread of local history month. and although quite classical centric, as I usually am.

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Hopefully, this can inspire people to dig in to history of hosting on their own area, and even in the own lives.

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So go i'm up at class school here so the first thing.

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Why, why are you guys going? My, How you think so classical is a set effect in my whole life?

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And it's Yeah, the question of how sing is dominated Mo.

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And life personally in terms of how many teams have moved, and how it structured my work in different relationships.

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And the question of how you sing is really dominated. The life of Glasgow itself as well.

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For the past 200 years up to the present day, and these constant cycles of urban development, a Master Malesian class conflict.

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Shifting ideology is political priorities and legislative changing changes are in hasten.

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So classical traditionally has been represented or associated with this industrial past.

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Primarily, but the other side of that is a deep connection to this architecture, and it's hosting some of the most famous representations.

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A classical have been by photographers documenting the living conditions of a citizens 200 so famously.

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Thomas Anna, and one of the very early airless photographers in the nineteenth century. that's his most famous work in the old closest or street Supply school for the Improvement Trust in 1,800 and 66

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with the brief to record much of all classical before it was demolished.

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In the first rounds a song clearance in the 1,800 sixtys, and 1,800 and Seventys Oscar Mars Rouley.

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It's also taken some of the most iconic images of classical documenting the post-warly development of the city, and we'll famously in the goggles and the old

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Some tenements. So is that ever clint in the class of the new more than a set that came.

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I was basically built on top of the room of those 10 communities.

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Nick Cages to another series of famous photographs in his work as a photographer for shelter.

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Scotland, documenting the some conditions in class in the 1,800 and Seventys, and they were originally supposed to be published by the Sunday Times.

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They were deemed yet too disturbing to Pen, and only more recently came out from and Raymond Airport.

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Don was a French photographer who came to Glasgow in 1980, and they actually came straight from Beirut.

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And he said, looking back, It was also a civil ward going on in Glasgow.

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Unlike in Beta. there were no other photographers.

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I'd spent the last day keep comforting several wars and rebellions.

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On my arrival I was surprised by the people, the architecture, and, above all, the light.

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Everything seemed very exhaustive. I worked in glad school like it did on the streets of without prejudice, and despite being shocked by the destitution I love 50 min, no matter where I went the people were

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welcoming. I never seemed sad with a lot

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I wrote Patents famous painting, and the windows in the West represented another representation of the other, say the classical Hastings and his tenement, suspicious in the West End, the say more prosperous part in the city,

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and just in my one lifetime. So I was born in 1988.

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Start of another site. kill of a demolition and change, beginning with the set is nomination, is European, say, of culture.

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In 1,990 attempts to get rid of its industrial past, and up to the present Chris Leslie's documentary photography of the latest strain.

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The demolition which was getting rid of the post-war development.

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So these costs and cycles of hosting change, demolition, me development kind of dominate the host there.

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The length of Oh, that's cool and today the set is only one another process to change with for me the most terrifying architectural renderings of this quite bizarre future city, which is apparently taken shape at the

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moment. So why does this my Well, this history is really determining.

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The present day politics and shape and planning of high school.

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Just recently Glasgow say Cancel Alright was urged to declare a rain crisis due to spiling events and host prices in the city.

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Just a direct result of political decisions made in the past, and the way that that history of tenure change, hosting change has been represented.

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So for today it's like from really taken a view of history from Hello, So so back, subject.

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But i'm just gonna summarize it with a quotation from that story, and V with Hatchcock.

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Say that I believe that history from below history which preserves in which 4 grounds the marginalized stories and experiences of people who, all else being equal, did not get a chance to alter their own story history from below tries

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to address the most final and brutal of life and equality.

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Whether or not you are forgotten, so that is really the story of Glasgow's tenants to the people that fall for their conductions survive the horrific conditions they find themselves and voices have largely been forgotten by

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history. The main story, a glaze was: History has been told from above by the politicians, the planners, the architects, the made decisions affect, and the lives of hundreds of thousands millions of people.

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Without hearing their voices. So I'm gonna show a little timeline here, I of Glasgow set it Councils a timeline or the housing team.

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So this was like an official document and produced by the Cancel to give their version of this story.

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So i'm just gonna go through it quickly conceivably is dominated by dates, bye legislative change, by politicians, officials, planning reports

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Changes and stales are hosting, hosting ownership, going through hosting stock, transfer privatization, right to buy more planning reports dates up to most recently the creation at Glasgow hosting association the

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privatization of the set is entire heightened stock.

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So when I first came across this, I mean what is messing almost entirely from that is, is any people I mean 1 one picture of one politician is not a single tenant or tennis movement peers and that entire history of 200

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years of everything change to show another one here, which is from a shelter.

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Scottland, the housing charity. Yeah. So let me just share this here.

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So this is shelters Take on the development of Scotland's hosting emergency over time.

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So the group over creating a slum conductions at the start of the twentieth century Development of early some Clements and counsel high in between the war, the building of peripheral schemes and tower blocks

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hybridized living in the fifties and sixtys, continuing homelessness, overcrowding Cathy come home so again, a few more people appeared in this almost always as a victims of this history.

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So from this point, if you, the tenants do appear but largely as kind of helpless a victims of circumstances.

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And again the organisation of tanks. The weight Tain is fought to improve their conductions is largely absent.

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Again, and history. so in our project for the wa we've been trying to tail less history from below to try to find the stories of 10.

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Is some have they organized how they came together to change the conditions that they left in.

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So it's part of the glasgow haste to struggle out.

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Cave started to construct an alternative timeline of this history.

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So from the 1,950 main strikes through to the post for squatting movement, where tens of thousands of homeless families took over on accounts and empty property, I other aspects of 10 organization associations boot test

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right demonstrations and movements so large has been forgotten from history nearly in the process of trying to put us together, can equate short.

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I how difficult it was, in one sense, so you can't go until I even pull it. A book tailin the story it was hosting, or even the story of the gobles, or any of the areas a lot of this material is

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in books i've been longer of print that is in various university archives or public archives.

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I've collected a lot of material from people i've met in a box of buses at funerals and part of call meetings.

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So really so by being active and collecting those voices are not really assuming that somewhere somewhere is doing the work of this history from below, and we've all got a part of play and tell them the story of the community is where we come

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from. So i'm just going to look at a couple of examples, and some of the archival film and case studies that I've been looking at.

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So i'll just share my screen again. so probably the most famous example of 10 in action in the whole of Britain in the twentieth century, was the classical end strikes of 1915 when and the first years of the

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World War. One is a massive info so tens of thousands of workers from the Highlands, from Ireland's From further a field entered the munitions factories of high school and to some tenaments and conditions

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of extreme extreme overcrowding, at which point 90% of the host of stock was in private landmark hands, and the landlords use this opportunity to raise rents so to try to profit basically from the wartime

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situation and take advantage by hiking up the rins. so muscle possession at 2 these red hikes broke out right across high school and working after class districts at the height of the red strike in 1915 30,000

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families across the city. we're refusing the rental increases.

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This was led overwhelmingly by working class women and the 10 communities right across the city.

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In the end that's ringcentral was successful in forcing one of the first State interventions into the free market.

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The occasion of a massive demonstration and industrial strikes.

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In October, 1915 right in the heart of the say Chambers Lloyd George, go on the phone to the sheriff in Glasgow to drop the case against the red strikers and

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Almost the next day the Restrictions Act was passed in waste.

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Minister that controlled rents to pre-war labels.

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And this was not just for scholars, but right across Britain. and they were.

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How does that work controlled well into the twentieth century, based on the victory of the 1915 Lane strikers?

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So so pictured here of some of the women the children do it on Red Strike, and an aspect of this people's history.

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A hosting is that this was a sphere largely controlled and laid and organized by women.

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And contrast to the labor movement, or basically much of social, political life.

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Public life in Scotland in the early twentieth century.

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One of the leaders of the mainstream was a remarkable woman.

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Helen Crawford, who was a leader in the suffrage movement in the anti war movement, and went on to be one of the founders of the Communist party.

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At the time she was one of the leaders of the rainstreakers, and in a huge demonstration and party in the west of the city, in 1,915.

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It was reported that she said that this fight was essentially a women's, fight, all who was taken power in the demonstration were showing their solidarity.

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They were asking not for money, not for charity. they would ask him for justice.

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She respected all laws that were just unfair. She did not ask them to respect the law which allowed increases and names to be enforced.

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The present juncture, and the male change in the 1916 spoke to his culminates that the man had laughed at the idea of rain straight to scorn.

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But women were determined, and they won a glorious victory.

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So significantly The history of this massive movement was largely forgotten for mostly twentieth century.

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So in a memoirs and histories of the period of Red Clyde side of the industrial conflict and the anti-war movement.

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It was hardly a mention of the 1915 ring straight, even though it was arguably the most successful action that took place during the whole period.

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Unless history was really dug up through the work of the Sharefield Film Cooperative.

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A group of female researchers who that come across a reference to this and began the work of doing history from below of archival research, and also auto history to find women who'd been involved. So i'm gonna show a

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clip from the film the red Scots on quite site.

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It comes here. She was a well, but of the process that they went through, and also hears from some of the voices of the rain straight curs.

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40 years after the

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We were soing the Glasgow rent strike, which took place in 1,915.

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During the First World War. we want to talk to any women who remembered the strike and the Glasgow Women's Housing Association who organized it.

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There were also 4 women who wants to know more about their names were Helen Crawford, Agnes Stalin, Mary Barber, and Jean Ferguson.

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We were particularly interested to find out why this important strike remained relatively unknown.

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We make contact with some women in Glasgow. Jessie Finley, a political activist all her life.

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Certainly my Margaret, young Kathy Mailer, and Sadie Fulton, whose parents were politically active during the period.

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Mary and Jesse Barber, the granddaughters of Mary Barbara.

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Never a big city, anyone because they went away well as far as the rental strike was concerned, the woman played a very important part in this, and the party and a govern where their hot beds time now, when there was an eviction

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of anyone does, no matter who they were. Then the woman got busy, and at that time, of course, their bikes back courts of tenements.

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Tenements ended up in a square and of course the Bike Courts were congenial to have an outdoor meeting, because all the needed to do was the speaker that was there got on the top of I don't

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know whether people understand the the language, but the midden or the refuse heap, and they support, and all that hound was the woman in the houses just opened their window, and I know the one don't listen to what was being said

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Now they were organized in different groups, and they there's a lesson here to build out, and there's no do of that. When it came to an eviction.

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The woman named come out with bales. ricketeser don't know what they call them a what a technical tailors are, and they, whenever they started a ring in the bail and a winding these

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Ricketes a the Goddamn. They all had certain areas to gather them, and they gathered, and of course it was then the what I told who was likely to be evicted.

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Was the result. There was always a Crow deer,

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The card index of the Glasgow History Library failed to reveal the names of the 4 women.

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There were no records of the glasgow women's Housing Association.

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Maybe we needed a women's history. library. Okay, thanks so can see?

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Yeah, even through that, probably the most well known event stay in there.

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Well when i'm more significant and last year twentieth century, one class movement, and it just took that small group of women to really and follow up the straight that led to it's kind of known to be so gonna

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skip forward and here and look at another episode from this history. That's really this Pba day after the end of the Second World War.

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So often as Pde is associated with in a images of the burst of the welfare state.

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The birth cancel hosting on a massive scale this idea that the Canal Labour Government was elected.

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And suddenly from above, the hosting crisis was solved, and reality even in 1951

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By the end of the Francisco Government it was still a 100,000 homes needed, built in classical 100,000 people, homeless and and overcame on a scale that was far, far beyond anywhere else in Britain.

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So still in 1951, 50% of the dwellings in classical were either a single room, a single end, or a room in caption.

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So comparative numbers and Manchester or leads are Lever Pool, whatever?

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1%, 2, 3% of the population. Still, at that team, less than half of the dwellings in classical had and endured bath or toilet, so extreme situation continued right through the period of the labor government and well in the

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sixties and seventies Again, A lot of that period is associated with these plans from above.

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So the famous Bruce report of 1,945 was proposed demolishing higher class. Go, say center, so the say, chamber is the classical school of art and rebuilding the say if you can see

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these kind of quite incredible maps here based on Yeah.

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New modernist planning principles of zoning, and this was also in competition with the eventual successful plan for classes.

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Redevelopment by the planner of the Crombe, which aim to move.

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250,000 people. So around 2025% of the population in class school was to be removed.

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Outside of the set is boundaries. Enter a series of new tones such as you score right in Livingston.

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So this was development on a massive scale, and right through this Pd.

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The Glasgow Corporation produced a large series of propaganda films.

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Essentially to bring the citizenry along with their grand visions.

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So you can see here, between nineteenth, 40, and 1,970.

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4 are in the dozen films were produced to sale and the corporations vision of planning to the population.

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So I'm going to show a couple of Clips here so this one's called St.

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Mungo's medal was based in the Gorbals area.

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So by the corporation showing the bright new future that was to come for its citizens, female and

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People, but behind this window have created a home in the heart of a hovel.

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For years they have held out bravely, and now the long siege is nearly over.

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In this one room house. The liberation is celebrated. born in this building, that, glad to be leaving it at last.

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But there is a sadness, too, in parting from old neighbours, for very soon these folk will be a war to bite a war each to his or her own place in the scheme of a new and better Glasgow

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To these 2 the uncertain future is just beginning to unfold like a forgotten dream coming true.

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Over half a century they have lived, loved, laughed, and sorrowed in this Gorbals tenement.

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From this dark, decaying street they have launched their children into the world.

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All the years they have dreamed of having a window that looked out on a tree and a bit of us.

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So again, love, that, like that, that highest and timeline will tie the start.

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Kind of incredible in all these phones is that the tenants that people are silent.

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They never speak. you never hear from any of them. I mean the voice over it is telling us that the the limit said their dream is a patch address.

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I I save the house, But I guess we'll never know so can really see that.

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How do you think history? the change of political decisions it'll presume to be in the hands of the planners and those above a 1 million?

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The wishes of the tenants. What class population that suffered and the some tenements somewhere center software suffered, and the new songs being built in the prefere of the set don't form any part really of the the official history

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of that period. so stepping forward to 1971.

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So this is 10 years later this was a a film just for a very brief, but again about the vision that Gorbals that was taken shape and the film was called classical 1980 was made in 1,971 and It was

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a horrifically long, and its productions medium rice.

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Her opposing at Pollock Shields. The redeployment of land formerly occupied by villas, means that more people can live in the district, and also enjoying means that in 1,980 the population of the city will

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be 800,000 people. they will have good houses and a revitalized environment that will free them from the cramped conditions of the past.

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So battle spencer's high-rise flats and Hutchison, Town Gorbals. the first of the comprehensive development areas before redevelopment.

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Population density was 460 people per acre.

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Now is 150 people per acre, living with light space, a sense of freedom.

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Okay, So why? space and a sense of freedom was what was being sold.

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Still in the 1970 S: So schedule a couple of things in that.

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Yeah, these episodes from that history that really have been very little retina.

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But and yeah, partly through the work we've been doing the archive project, we're trying to share more so in 1,946, and the pediatric government far from the House has been kind of just handed

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down, and it was a huge struggle to force them into host building.

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So famous examples in London of squatters taken over at old army camps, and then starting to take over a private property and hotels.

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The the same thing happened with classical tens of thousands of mainly homeless people from Governor and the Gobles Ex Service men began to take over a abandon arm comes and then they help the Communist part in the independent labour, party

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to take over masters of property over the set is so abandoned.

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Mansions, the headquarters of a classical press club hostages.

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Yeah, 10 bedroom munch in the Kelvin deal, and before running battle with the police to occupy this hosting and the main deliber government.

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Well, being a nationally sympathetic, began to take action against the scores and major legal battles were for,

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For in the courts and on the streets But the score is played an important role and highlighting the fact that homelessness was a huge issue, and the desperation that tenants faced so that some elements in this we're trying

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to tell a story. A very famous play was made by the unity theatre that was seen by over a 100,000 people in the space of about 6 months, called The Audible Story.

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They're told or tried to show the reality of a slum living. And then one of the performances in classical. They invited the Lord promised to view, and they also invited a group of homeless quarters to come to the same

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performance, got them up on stage, and apparently horrified the Lord Provost.

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Another important thing that happened. that period was big demonstration and straight movement.

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To prevent the sale of a series of cancel houses.

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So in 1,951 toy accounts, and as well I know this plans to sail off high amendment to cancel.

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Heing and the south of the city Well, 90,000 almost people are still on waiting lists, and a huge movement belt a rollout to defend these hosts immediately interestingly, was laid by the workers who had built the corporation houses.

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And by working class women. and it was a poem here written by the building workers that we found, an account of the women leading the occupation of the say Chambers.

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At 1 point they brought a dead rat that they found in that host, and through the cancel, and these are all the elements.

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That we're really in huge contrast to to the way women were being portrayed at a time.

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So so let's say these little stories that we're trying to draw from the history show that actually tenants weren't passive at any point.

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What we're constantly fighting to improve the conditions they left in So another little clip i'm gonna show was just what happened to these promises of the bright new gordbles that had been promised and in a

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classical set, a council class of corporation films. So these are tenants that live in a very famous redevelopment called Hutches and Town.

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It was opened by the Queen in 1,971 to great fanfare, and by 1,981 due to the terrible dampness and the corruption involved in the building contracts would almost

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abandon. This is one of the other segments of but 11. There's one of the media factors That's a doubt.

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This was the old people having so many hard fast that must have gone down really.

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Well, I wasn't your phone as a fault be it too much.

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There's a fight. no you you give off the conversation so after these first couple of years were over, and the dampness still hadn't gone away.

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Did you start to spot other things going wrong with the with the buildings, I mean?

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Did people sign up and see are the signs of the dampness?

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Oh, I was split! It started spreading through wallpaper, complete through all people.

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Space fog on the following tier room: campus down the species.

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Clothing is that's that's those little white mug I.

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Some things are so people have to throw the furniture don't lose suits. don't blue suits in light.

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It's a whitish way. you know and the wardrobes when you're young, it may know you're furniture. If it was to keep me enough say every state of amazement you but it took them

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years out there was condensation, or saw this, maybe on windows or keep it heat.

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Arizona P. I went to i'll like done.

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Okay. So the between 1,976 and 1,981. The tennis in these files led our end straight against those of corporation and really play the vital role to one that can the link between bird housing

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and pure health, which was constantly denied, as the guys said there, and the led to campaign against what they called the dumbness monsters, organizing pedestrians, organizing plays as well as the rain strikes and in the

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end they successfully one compensation and need hosting.

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So through the campaign. And this was a yeah, Some of the from a cartoon produce some of the things the corporation blame the tenants for the dump conduction, and how to avoid it.

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So no heavy breathing, sweating more than 2 persons, no way dreams by order, no hot bats, farting, drying foods, no parties.

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Dogs wet that do not lean over about Kate.

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You wear a wet floor? no hot food or drink. So the tennis had to overcome this kind of gas lighting by the people who had built this tannable hyen and demonstrate the link and then fight for

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yeah in the end, for these fights to be demolished after only 10 years.

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And here's some of the images as you can see of the women who are largely leading the fight again, and right into the 1980 S.

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And 19 ninetys tenants, and the new peripheral hosting schemes continued to demonstrate against a poor conditions of the host, and they were an so one of the most famous was Catherine Mccormick

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working class highway from eastern highest one to the Buddhist, and the jargon most deprived.

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It is of the Seti quite notorious, and and Glasgow in Scotland and beyond Hmm.

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Became politically active through bring in healthy babies back from the hospital, and within a few weeks of them Ian and the damp hosting I'm terrible costs, sickness, and illness, and the way they're really innovative

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campaign to design new houses with solar energy, proper insulation.

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They worked with a scientist and technicians from across Europe, from the class of school of art, to not only demonstrate, but to show an old alternative vision of what they believed public hosting.

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And these are some of the designs. yeah. We find an archives and donated by an artist.

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We are working with showed the proposals put forward than an east hole one section of the scheme that they successfully built, and they also used humor.

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Our culture was a key part as well. So this is a little clock of the damp busters film that the 10 is used to tourate across working class areas of classical to expose the yeah hosting conductions

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i'm sure the reality of dampness so just for a of cafe as a mushroom.

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You my husband this

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He's got these system and the door that is so lazy

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Huge blood moves Okay, So right, just a really port to test there.

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But I guess keep point for me. Is that to find them?

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To tell this alternative story, to feign that film footage, to feign those design plans to fame.

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The story of their Gorbals. rent strike or the Glasgow squatters. it's really been very few sources, you know.

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It's not in any books that are currently in print a phone stuff in old Phds and artists who have been an archives at classical women's library just through personal conversations with people.

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I've made goodness through this that we started to build this extra and find a way to make the material that is there that Scott or the bite to send centralize it and to user and to create a narrative that people can add to

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the people can contest, because the reality is that within Glasgow spell invitment there is no trace of any of these struggles.

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All in the city, save what people thought for themselves so there's one recent monument to Medi Barbara, and the classical land strikeers in 1,915 campaign for for 10 years there's very little in the

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urban landscape that would hint any of this history, if you don't know, and if you don't look so by accounting less by starting to put together by sharing it by doing more contours meetings,

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we're collecting more and more stories and materials and then Kevin.

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I don't timeline in contrast to that from above, and just lastly, to see that the the W.

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Ea has played an important role, and capturing and sharing this history.

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So yeah, it's various. clips. So for example Kasimol is one in the post, 4 peripheral themes and in 1,990 The Workers Educational Association was with a series of tenants there to Produce

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a pamphlet cold and the big flat as part of the customer People's history group.

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So this is a pound for that told the history of the area that has not been told anybody else that through a weekly oral history groups through, take 10 min through the archives to the Metro library.

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They create this history and record it, and one of the finders irresist Mcdonald of the scheme, she said, One thing i'm must say at this stage is that it's a great petty when someone asks for

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a rundown, and what the Customer Tenants Association was that we do not stop to make a written history.

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We can only rely on memory and the W. has played their really important role. and and it's history of May that written record and recording it.

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So our current project, the classical high school struggle, archive aims to be a repository of these various retin and oral histories of place, to share it, to create timelines, to take out, and to public, so these

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are some images of an installation with that tailing a 100 years of 10 of movements in classical as part of an exhibition, a device called Women's Library.

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So. And yeah, trying to think of interesting ways, visual ways making new connections between the materials.

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And yeah, maybe not usual boring archive. so.

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And that is, continuing today. So most recently a new archive project has been started between the Workers Educational Association in Scotland and Glasgow, Caledonian University to to yeah find additional material to contribute to

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the archive to examine the legacy of the W.

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Ea, and for people to make written submissions It may be attended an event who'd gone to workshops, who had parents or grandparents who grew up, and the W Ea.

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So that is something that we can all contribute to, and all our stories have something to tell.

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So let me just find this here good second so just to finish is really just the next exercise that we've been doing with different W.

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E. a workshops, and in different settings as to just start to record as well.

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Our own personal timelines of housing change. So to think about representing the way these things have a affected us in our own lives.

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So mainly I came up with idea of maine was extremely boarding, so I just sat there and I took note of every host moves that I've done since I was a kid.

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So I think the first one there was in 1,990, Thank you.

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But the different tapes of hosting I lived in who on the host way, that I have to move and to plot that personal history onto the wider social employee who changes that happened people are really creative.

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We did workshops using collage so this was actually my mom's one.

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This was one of our tutors mapped her various elections against changes to her work and our personal life.

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So it's just constantly thinking of ways that we can Yeah, examine history from below to connect these different timelines. and just to enrich the story of the set is in the community as we come from and to challenge maybe with someone that

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perceive not a tips that are used to justify political decisions today.

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So when hi, you soon as privatized, or when yeah, and if new developments are taking place in the gobles and elsewhere, with no acknowledgement of the rich.

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Cultural political traditions that people have created over the past 200 years.

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It makes it more difficult to challenge maybe some of the same mistakes we've seen through it last was history keep repeating, and it as part of 11 rain.

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Our tennis union. we're. currently engaged in space against extreme, a down pacing against mold against wrongful election against red hikes against one more violence.

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So all of these things of a pure time and time again in Glasgow's history.

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They're never gonna be solved unless people organize and their own interests to fight for the decent safe and affordable highest.

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And this should be a basic requisite and the 20 first century.

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So I think i've got a bit 2 min left i'm just gonna finish with a very quick reflection, and then I will shut up.

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Let me see here. Okay,

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Okay, So i'm just gonna finish with a quote from Christine Peyton, who's an academic between biochemical level of work on the gentrification of part in the waste of the city, and she said as

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we cast our eyes, and what remains at the crisis of twentieth century, industrial capitalism, and the 1 s city of the empire.

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The whole interior is exposed to what old the steel carcasses of high rises.

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Mangled arteries of wires and pipes.

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We must ask, Does it all melt and dissolve you on these physical remnants?

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The tumult of Glasgow's industrial transformation casts a long shadow as we document what disappears and dissolves.

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So we must equally document what endures, what haunts, what imprints, and what is born.

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So history from below must be uncomfortable if history allows you to be complacent.

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It's not doing its job so I hope i've not made anyone feel too uncomfortable today.

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If you feel. are we about uncomfortable in that spring?

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So. thanks very much for dealing with me, and hope to be able to answer any questions that you have.

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Thanks very much. Thanks very much, Julia. That was that was really interesting.

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And as someone who's the heritage is in Glasgow, I certainly personally find that really interesting.

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Now we've got some questions let me scroll up here.

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I'm just gonna start from the top here and we've got a question from Guy and you were talking about tenant participation, obviously. and he's saying in regard to that what about 20 Gibson and planning for real

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and dominant is Glasgow, 1,977.

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This seemed a really involving project and Actor Doesn't incentive to community development projects, or in Britain

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So to that I would say, I do not know much about that.

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But this is precisely why we we want this classical, highest and struggle archive, basically to be a kind of repository or a framework where people can take these stories.

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So sorry. who asked that question? It was Guy. Guy. Yeah. So it would be really interesting to hear your thoughts on that.

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If you have documents or materials from the time or go and interview some of the people involved, and that can yeah be added to this a timeline, because I think there's so many things like that that are just not known about

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they're not shared this very difficult to find out about them unless you were involved.

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So I will. They play with that up. And if you want to get in touch doing a little piece or window, Yeah, guy, if you want to get in touch with us, the email address is membership that w va dot org dot Uk: So we

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can certainly pass on any information that you have. Okay, thanks for that.

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No, what we got next. yeah. this is a a question from June, and I don't know whether it's a question we can really answer.

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But she's asking How is it that local records don't seem to exist.

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It reminds me of the history of children's homes in England which i'm i'm assuming there's a very kind of similar kind of situation.

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Yeah, and I guess yeah, I guess my experience is i've done all this research and writing and projects not not in academia.

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So yeah, i've been quite interested in just thinking about how if you if you're not within the academy, or in a university or an institution, How and your interest and that stuff, How you do? find?

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That a better. And again it's just I love this material is they are but having the time having the knowledge having the ability to access it, And a lot of maybe the more yeah recent movements, a lot of that stuff in the

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twentieth century postwar and material the only place I've read about a lot of it is in one unpublished.

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A PHD. I find better skate Charles Johnston an incredible piece of work that I just found in the class university website.

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You know it's The only place i've read about the classical sporting movement is one of the only places upgraded are then mainstream.

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But, for example, recently the but campaign and Medaly in 1,950.

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1. One of the leaders was a Belden Marker Communist called Ned Donaldson.

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And Yeah. last year at his daughter is now Annie Donaldson, who's all like true Stratly.

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Do you need Yeah. can I go and talk and she's. Now, working to yeah, we publish a history of our movement. our diet rule. she's digging out a lot of their archives and records.

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You just had personally working with different historians to put this material together.

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So again. it's like kind of mix between like personal links A lot of this material is there, or you'd be heading, and I think just a lot of people.

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I mean. probably everyone has something, you know, some document some story some full graph.

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They couldn't form part of these records so yeah things just about using all avenues, and and I think the main thing is just.

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I always assume that there's somebody somewhere in some research department that is doing this work, and more. i've done it. I find it there, isn't you know.

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So it's just you don't just enough say just take the initiative. See?

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See what you can think. Okay, right. we've got a question from Bridget. Thomas.

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She Thinks, what is the situation today? no i'm assuming that she's talking about situation of housing and presumably Glasgow, and way to Scotland I don't know whether that's a question that

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you're able to answer because obviously you've been looking at looking back.

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But I don't know if there's anything that you could tell us about in terms of how things I know huge huge changes.

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I think maybe the the interesting thing about the last maybe 2030 years is that it's not produced anywhere in terms of like,

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No demolition of thousands of the high rise buildings, transformation, or a razor.

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The full cumulative is like, can site hell in the North to say that just being completely demolished.

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And again, there being the the start time, you know, after the war.

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Can I? Goables and these other tenement cuminates can do this masses.

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You know the songs photographs memoirs or voila, fair novels, you know it's still imprinted, and that and the psyche of the set to even for people that were born well, after it so that

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also. Mars are really a exhibition at Street Level Gallery last year.

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I mean it was mocked you know because these images from the fifties after war.

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That's what people associate with class school whereas what replaced it. doesn't seem to have that connection. So at 1 point in class school was said to have a higher percentage of public host.

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And then the Soviet Union, I think upwards is 60.

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70% of of closest population was host and cancellation.

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And no, there is no domain and cancellation at all.

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So the entire stop transferred to Glasgow. Hasten Association.

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2,003 Houston stock, decimated by late to buy huge programmer demolition.

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So, for example, in site hell, it was I think 2 and a half days in units of cancer host, and we have been replaced bye 200 units of Max hosting a Private Houston.

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So it's been huge changes also replacement of public housing where private hosting, private ending home ownership.

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And it's kind of yeah a major rain crisis has been created through us. To also say cancel it's part of flag man's campaign is declared especially that is our end crisis. and the the hosting is

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unaffordable. And yet what is mainly being built we've got luxury hotels and massive built event apartment.

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So. yeah, in a way, it doesn't seem a lot of the license have been learned in a way, unless people challenge them.

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Then I think there's always a conflict between hosting as a source of income tax speculation and hosting is a as a place to live, to work, to make yourself to reproduce yourself and in that conflict is on one

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and the and right across Britain, I mean yeah Yeah, I was just gonna say it seems to be an editor here.

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I don't know if glass goes the same but every single gap site that there is within the city student accommodations going in, and I think that the interesting thing is a thing across all classes, and all people in class school there's a real

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attachment to traditional Victorian architecture. you know, of the tenements of the sandstone.

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And Yeah, even from an architectural point of view I I can't think of 1 one building, and the way was having to know is is ant planning, you know, in the post-war.

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They we, these huge Vegans, despite all the you know what happened in the end.

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You know the planners at a point we're dealing with unprecedented crisis.

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I think it's hard to really imagine what the situation in classical, was in the Second World War.

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Compared to, and I think they had some attempt to, you know.

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For the first time. Try and get people a decent time to 11 public high cent for decent rent.

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What is? No, we just got demolition and private host building gap seats just almost the opposite of a vision.

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It just seems to be happening, and no one's quite sure why, or what?

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And and all this formally public highest I know public land. it's just a huge fire sale of it to to private developers.

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So up in Kalina Street and many how it's a campaign living rain.

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Another members accumulate are involved in a big gap, say, with beautiful views over to camps is kind of an amazing area.

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To say, but it was a cancel icing scheme.

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It was demolished, and the counselor is no sailing off the land, but stipulated that must be sold to a private developer.

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So you know, proposals for social high sang for self-built housing, for you know 2 min 8 like No.

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So people have occupied the land and they're putting forward you know their own proposals for the site, and trying to prevent insult off.

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So again, say things like that. it's quick useful to dig into the history, and to find you know times and you know in your own area what other people use, and managed to do similar things.

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Give you some ideas, some inspiration, or make you of tooling, depending on.

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And just a quick question here from Peter, and just kind of almost a point of clarification more than anything else.

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And when you're talking about privatizing housing today, are you meaning housing associations, or are you meaning private landlordism?

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, Yeah. So I think all you know, all of this has been happening since 80.

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So I mean, like, right across the the rest cross Britain, the lake to bay obviously decimated much of the best cancellation stock.

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And then, yeah, the transfer of you know publicly on I think, and to the hands that classical hosting association and the Weekly group just the highesting association, but also essentially a business and a team that was called the

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largest privatization in Europe. So yeah the role of how you' associations and and kind of ben marketing, and all these, and a breakup of the tenure, you know, the thing is safely debate about you know whether some of that

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was necessary in some really positive examples about, but in some sense has all been element a type of privatization stuff.

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Housing that belong to public belong to state past one is no in some form or another, a private T: So yeah, I think all all of these things would happen.

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And obviously a very different processes. But you know the fact that you know all the people that were public, highest, and be highest in another tenure.

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You know. No, everyone that High school was able to afford that.

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So if you look at the kind of tenure shifts, you know the rise and those renting privately in law school cross comes almost directly correlated to the decline. and 100 those host and social host and so

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I think as well. The other thing is all these you know, ran strikes and bottles that were full by classical corporation tenants, and the 1970 S. 1980 S. and 1990s against dampness against atrocious conductions

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against the complete work of amenities at no point was the demand for their to be less public hosting or to stop building public housing.

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It's a bit demand for public hosting that's worthy of the name.

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So I think you know, history can be weaponized in different ways, and then the failures of more than I still cancel host in the twentieth century can be used to justify.

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You know that there should be no cancel. I was single.

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Oh, but there was a nice quote I found that i'll communicate publication from Easter House in the seventies, and I, Guy talking a bit, has to do the scheme.

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One of the reasons, you know, and everything they they had to go through.

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You said the point was not that they shouldn't fault for that if they hadn't thought they wouldn't have had anything at all, and I think it's easy people maybe no looking back they don't live through.

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It, you romanticized, You know, some of the tenant communities and the slums.

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But I think, yeah, it was a polling of polling conductions and we're definitely not, you know, but not in that situation, though, to the ver factories here. Okay, i've got a couple of couple of quick, questions and then I think Well,

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we'll wrap things up for and first one actually is a little bit of a suggestion actually from Norman.

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He's seen with searching Glasgow newspapers not be a productive source of contemporary documentary material journalism.

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As the first draft of history. Yeah, Absolutely. Yeah. One of the best things I found was yeah.

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The entire record of of a newspaper community newspaper called the the Easter host voice.

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They have the metro library It's incredible resource not no.

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I got all Kate Wilson's just finished a PHD.

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On community rating, and in class was the house and schemes, and she used a lot of newspaper records, community papers, and also she uncovered a lot of a workers educational association pamphlets chemistry pamphlets create a great and

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pamphlets at the time. so yeah absolutely okay i've got one more question, and then we'll wrap things up.

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Folks, and this is from Mariana. Would you be able to give us a bit of a flavor of what the loving conditions were like?

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And Glasgow in the nineteenth century. Excellent!

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Yes, so this was a yeah, so that's a pure we call this weird screen.

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I'll i'll send the new bill send it a meeting list, or something after the but called Glasgow going for a song by a quartz fragrant angles and there's famous condition

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of the working class in England, I mean of 1844.

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That was, mainly based on conditions of Manchester.

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But the living conditions in class goes backlines we're so unspeakable.

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Here you produce them so Angle said. I have seen human degradation in some of its worst phases, both in England and abroad.

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I can advisely see that I did not believe until I visited the wayanes of Glasgow. The sole large, and my main affiliate misery and disease existed in one sport in any civilized country the wings consists of long

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lean, so narrow that a cart could with difficulty pass along them.

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I. Of these open the closest, which are courts of about 15 or 20 feet square, then, which the house is mostly of 3 stories high or built center of the court, is that dong Hell was probably is the most lucrative part of this state

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to the layer In most instances i'm went to with consequently be esteemed an invasion of the rights of property to remove, and the lower lodging host is 1012 or sometimes 20 persons, of both sexes

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and all ages sleep promiscuously on the floor, and different degrees of nakedness; and these places are generally, as regards darts, damp, and decay, such as no person of common humanity.

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The stable, his horse and and yeah, and keep out the credible profits being made from industry.

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And empire at the time on top, with a heat. The human misery and the people paid. I made land was very rich for the privilege.

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11, those congestions. So I think yeah it's lots of medieval.

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Yeah, , Okay, Well, thank you so much. for that.

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Julie, I really enjoyed that. I hope everybody else found that really interesting.

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What I found quite interesting. This is slightly slightly comedic, was to see actually some footage of the Duke of Wellington statue.