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Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
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.
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The Baines Note (1593)
These thinges, with many other shall by good & honest men be proved to be his opinions and common speeches, […]
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Thomas Kyd (1558–1594)
Thus must we toil in other men’s extremes,That know not how to remedy our own. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, […]
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The School of Night
O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,The hue of dungeons, and the school of night… William Shakespeare, Love’s Labours […]
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Adam Duff O’Toole (d. 1328)
Adam Duff O’Toole (Adam Dubh Ó Tuathail) was a reputed heretic, who was burned at the stake for his denials […]
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C.K. Ogden (1889-1957)
If he had ever worshipped at any shrine, it would have been one illumined with the flame of pure intellect. […]
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Ipswich Heretics
We must grow out of the crude and unreal ideas of immortality and content ourselves with the only kind of […]
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Cambridge Heretics
The gist of heresy is free personal choice in act, and specially in thought – the rejection of traditional faiths […]
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Pelagius (c. 354-418)
Pelagius lived between the fourth and fifth centuries, and advocated a heretical Christianity that emphasised free will and humanity’s capacity […]
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Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928)
About the moral problem there is nothing mysterious; it is simply the old, old question of how best to live […]
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William of Ockham (c.1287-1347)
William of Ockham was the fourteenth century’s most influential philosopher: a key thinker of the Middle Ages and an early […]