With Ronald Hutton, an interested onlooker. He's a kind of equivalent to the
historian Keith Thomas to New Age studies: that is to say compendious, dry,
common-sensical, and accurate. Imagine a rationalist who will spend time
with covens to understand their views, rather like a Richard Dawkins who
holidays in a monastery.
2009/4/15 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Well, that's all very interesting, Dave, but are you for or against? I
> can't really tell from your heading....
>
> And know nothing about Hutton....
>
> Doug
>
> On 14-Apr-09, at 11:49 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
>
>> http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2009/04/love-a-druid-hate-a-papist.html
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>> David Bircumshaw
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
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>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>
>>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
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> A little planet blues, for the
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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