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| Big Ben in Skevington's Irons, June 2018 |
1265: Britain's House of Commons met for the first time today, fifty years after the signing of the first Magna Carta (click here. Why is it, three quarters of a millennium since we started on the road to real democracy, that we are still so very far short of getting there?
1327: Edward II became the first ever king of England to abdicate - more on who made this happen on the Mediaeval page of "Woman-Blindness"
Federico Fellini, Italian film-maker, born today in 1920.
Anatoly Shcharansky, now known as Natan Sharansky, the man who translated dissident Andrei Sakharov's speeches into English, and was among the most senior figures in the Refusenik movement in the Soviet Union, born today in 1948. Much more on both of them, and on the history of the Otkazniks, which is how you say "Refuseniks" in Russian, in my novel "Going To The Wall" - click here - due for publication... eventually.
For an explanation of Skevington's Irons, also known as "The Scavenger's Daughter", click here
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