GREATEST
HAPPINESS:
ENLIGHTENING
READERS
BOOKS
Corvids
and Others
Phoebe - A
Journey with
the Spirit
Tim Green
My Memoirs
1924 to 1957
ESSAYS
Tim Mason and
the burden of
explaining
Nazism
August 1914:
the Englishwoman
who stayed in
Germany
Witnesses
to Nazi
Germany
Nairn
revisited
NOTES
Jeremy Bentham
greatest happiness |
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Jeremy Bentham and his contemporaries from the age of enlightenment fought against the evils of ignorance, autocracy and slavery. Their ideas provide a continuing source of inspiration, so this website takes Bentham's maxim ' the greatest happiness of the greatest number' as the source for its name, and offers books and essays written in their optimistic and enquiring spirit. BOOKS - Corvids and Others is a collection of birds, captured in all their splendour and mystery by twenty wonderful poets, published in support of Bookseller Crow on the Hill. - Phoebe - A Journey with the Spirit tells the remarkable story of a woman who broke out of a conventional middle class life to develop new ways of caring for the elderly. - Tim Green - My Memoirs 1924 to 1957 describes the formative years of a great furnituremaker, Francophile and family man in his own words. ESSAYS The essays published here deal with recent history, with a particular focus on relations between Britain and Germany. - Tim Mason pioneered the study of Nazi Germany in Britain in the 1960s. - Edith Madge was an Englishwoman whose affection for Germany kept her in the country after the outbreak of World War 1. - The witnesses to Nazism described here were four English speaking writers who saw 1930s Germany at first hand. - Nairn revisited looks at how London has changed since Ian Nairn published his classic guidebook in 1965. |
