Archive for February, 2007

Alastair Hamilton – The Family of Love

Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Alastair Hamilton - The Family of Love Alastair Hamilton – The Family of Love
[James Clarke & Co. 1981]

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The Family of Love has been subject to a variety of approaches over the years. Hostile witnesses of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have left the impression of a sect at the same time dangerous and ludicrous, a congregation of cowards, traitors and lechers determined to undermine the visible churches and, if given the chance, to destory the state itself. A slightly more recent historiographical tendency, in existence since the second half of the nineteenth century, presents the Family of Love as a movement with far more virtues than implied by Protestant and Catholic pamphleteers.

Contents

Foreword
Introduction
1. The Spiritual Traditions
2. From Conception to Foundation
3. Followers and Enemies
4. The Antwerp Humanists
5. Hielism and the End of Familism
6. The Family of Love in England
Conclusion
References
Bibliography
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Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra live recordings

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra is a Bushwick, Brooklyn based afrobeat band that is modelled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra. Although their music is primarily afrobeat, their music incorporates elements of jazz, funk, dub, improvised music, and traditional drumming from Cuba and West Africa. (quoting wikipedia)

The Internet Archive hosts 15 Antibalas live recordings which are all available for free download. So, what are you waiting for? If you wonder which to try first, Live at Culture Room on 2003-04-28 is not a bad place to start.
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(If you wonder how to convert the different audio formats into something a bit more manageable, I recommend pacpl, the Perl Audio Convertor.)

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migrating from Thunderbird to Claws Mail

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Moving from Thunderbird to Claws Mail is getting easier. Now, in addition to the mailbox conversion script, (tbird2claws.py), we have added a script that converts Thunderbird filtering rules to Claws Mail filtering rules, thunderbird-filters-convertor.pl. So, in next to no time you can start a leaner, meaner email experience.

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Henry Snowstorm – Civil Unrest

Saturday, February 10th, 2007
Henry Snowstorm - Civil Unrest Henry Snowstorm has just released his first album, entitled 'Civil Unrest'. It's available as a free download from the Wild Beast, so head on over to www.thewildbeast.co.uk/henrysnowstorm/ and give it a listen.

File it under beats, under hip-hop, under jazz, under funk, under leftfield, file it under whatever you want – it's an entirely instrumental, 27-track album.

… conflict is part of existence and nothing is gained without struggle …

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P. G. Rogers – The Fifth Monarchy Men

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
P. G. Rogers – The Fifth Monarchy Men
[Oxford University Press 1966]

The Fifth Monarchy Men were a vociferous sect of religious fanatics who reached the peak of their influence in the mid-seventeenth century, at one point threatening the security of Cromwell's Government. They were convinced of the imminent arrival of the Kingdom of Christ on Earth (the Fifth Monarchy), and, with an obstinate tenacity, they proclaimed their millenarian doctrines in the pulpit and in a spate of polemical pamphlets. They also planned insurrections against the established order, and a desparate attempt by them in January 1661 to overthrow the Government of Charles II caused (to quote Pepys) 'a great stir' in the city of London, and a number of deaths in the fighting which ensued.

Though their political and economic doctrines had little effect on the broad course of English history, indirectly the activities of the sect contributed towards some important developments in England in the seventeenth century. For example, the fanaticism of their representatives in the Barebones Parliament brought that parliamentary experiment into disrepute; and their attitude towards the Jews played some part in the developments which led ultimately to the readmission of the Jews into England.

Contents

Preface
1 The Cult of the Millenium
2 Teetering and Tumbling Affairs
3 Saints Rejected
4 Saints Defiant
5 Trials and Tribulations
6 Desperate Zealots
7 Blood Will Have Blood
8 A Blow for King Jesus
9 Faith Without Works
10 A Stiff-Necked People
Sources
Index
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