The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars.
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Cottage Economy is not, however, just a nineteenth-century DIY manual. It is also a fiercely polemical defence of smallholding as a way of...
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The 19th-century chronicler of rural England displayed a similar mix of radicalism and conservatism to modern Greens.
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The Englishman in question is William Cobbett (1763-1835), of whom Chesterton, in 1925, wrote a biography, considering him the very embodiment of Merrie...
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There are few things more enjoyable in English political writing than William Cobbett in full flow. Here he is on tea: “I view the tea...
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The Farnham Help for Refugees community group is calling for local residents to help those facing hardship.
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Richard Ingrams celebrates the tempestuous life of a 19th-century contrarian in The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
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[THIS WEEK] James Pallister finds the Golden Age in a swap box at Warwick Parkway station.
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As the strongest timber in North America, black locust helped build Jamestown and hardened the navy that decided the War of 1812.
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Roger Deakin died, too young, of a brain tumour. He was a film-maker, environmentalist and author who is most famous for his trilogy of books about nature.
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