Rupert Brooke’s 1914 sonnets made him a national symbol of patriotic sacrifice, but the man behind the legend was a sceptic and a socialist, at home among the freethinkers of pre-war Cambridge, who left religion behind before he left school and never returned to it.
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the […]
Robert Owen, the son of a Newtown saddler and ironmonger, became one of the most successful mill owners of the […]
“Yet, upon the whole, the History of the Decline and Fall seems to have struck root, both at home and […]