John Papworth, the Glossary
John Papworth (12 December 1921 – 4 July 2020) was an English clergyman, writer and activist against big public and private organizations and for small communities and enterprises.[1]
Table of Contents
26 relations: Anti-nuclear protests, Authoritarianism, BBC, Bertrand Russell, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Church of England, Communist Party of Great Britain, E. F. Schumacher, Earl's Court, Essex, George Blake, Herbert Read, Home Guard (United Kingdom), Labour Party (UK), Leopold Kohr, Michael Howard, New Internationalist, Peace News, Purton, Resurgence & Ecologist, Salisbury (UK Parliament constituency), Sean Bourke, Tampa Bay Times, The Daily Telegraph, World War II, 1955 United Kingdom general election.
- People from Purton
Anti-nuclear protests
Anti-nuclear protests began on a small scale in the U.S. as early as 1946 in response to Operation Crossroads.
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Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, logician, philosopher, and public intellectual. John Papworth and Bertrand Russell are Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates.
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.
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Communist Party of Great Britain
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups.
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E. F. Schumacher
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was a British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies.
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Earl's Court
Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the sub-districts of South Kensington to the east, Chelsea to the south and Kensington to the northeast.
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Essex
Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.
George Blake
George Blake (Behar; 11 November 1922 – 26 December 2020) was a spy with Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union.
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Herbert Read
Sir Herbert Edward Read, (4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education.
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Home Guard (United Kingdom)
The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was an unpaid armed citizen militia supporting the 'Home Forces' of the British Army during the Second World War.
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Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.
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Leopold Kohr
Leopold Kohr (5 October 1909 – 26 February 1994) was an economist, jurist and political scientist known both for his opposition to the "cult of bigness" in social organization and as one of those who inspired the Small Is Beautiful movement.
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Michael Howard
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne (born Michael Hecht; 7 July 1941) is a British politician who was Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005.
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New Internationalist
New Internationalist (NI) is an international publisher and left-wing magazine based in Oxford, England, owned by a multi-stakeholder co-operative and run day to day as a worker-run co-operative with a non-hierarchical structure.
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Peace News
Peace News (PN) is a pacifist magazine first published on 6 June 1936 to serve the peace movement in the United Kingdom.
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Purton
Purton is a large village and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, about northwest of the centre of Swindon.
Resurgence & Ecologist
Resurgence & Ecologist is a British bi-monthly magazine covering environmental issues, engaged activism, philosophy, arts and ethical living.
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Salisbury (UK Parliament constituency)
Salisbury is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by John Glen of the Conservative Party.
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Sean Bourke
Sean Aloysius Bourke (1934–1982), from Limerick, aided in the prison escape of the British spy George Blake in October 1966.
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Tampa Bay Times
The Tampa Bay Times, called the St.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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1955 United Kingdom general election
The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election in 1951.
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See also
People from Purton
- Desmond Morris
- Henry Hyde (died 1634)
- John Papworth
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Papworth
Also known as Papworth, John.