Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,And bathed every veyne in swich licóurOf which vertú engendred is the flour;Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breethInspired hath in every holt and heethThe tendre croppes, and the yonge sonneHath in the Ram his […]
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51st Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 22nd October 2020. Held in the Henry Carmichael Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney NSW.
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When the ancient Greeks erected their first temples from stone, they incorporated construction features found in earlier temples made of wood. Wooden columns, supporting wooden beams (architrave), and even the end of the joists (triglyphs) showed the binding pegs underneath (guttae), yet these guttae served no structural purpose. Presumably, this was so the new stone […]
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It has become a common trope that slavery and the slave trade is responsible for the industrial revolution, if not our entire modern prosperity. Slavery is often called capitalism’s “dark side.”
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50th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 25th February 2020. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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The story begins with Arthur, born the illegitimate son of the King of the Britons. He is raised in secret away from public view. While Arthur is still a boy, the old King dies. In the days before courts of law, a physical challenge called an ordeal was seen as a way to reveal God’s will. In the legend, to gain the throne, aspirants had to demonstrate that they had the right-to-rule by withdrawing a sword from a stone, in which it is deeply embedded. Many come forward to try, but all are thwarted in their attempts to withdraw the blade. Try as they might, no amount of force will wrest the sword from the stone’s vice-like hold.
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“Either you believe in limited government or you don’t. And if you do, you must recognise, with John Stuart Mill, that the business of government is not to mend our morals, but to protect our freedoms”
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…But the Consul’s brow was sad,and the Consul’s speech was low,And darkly looked he at the wall,and darkly at the foe.“Their van will be upon us, before the bridge goes down;And if they once might win the bridge, what hope to save the town?” Then out spake brave Horatius,The Captain of the Gate:“To every man […]
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On this day 330 years ago in 1689, Royal ascent was given to the English Bill of rights which laid out the rights of parliament, the limitations on the Monarch as well as certain civil rights and liberties of subjects, such the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. The Bill was presented to William of […]
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49th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 12th November 2019. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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48th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 20th August 2019. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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Examines the positive net benefit of the British Empire – Science & technology, freedom from disease, global trade, destruction of the slave trade, parliamentary democracy, and individual liberty as well as protection from communist, fascist and other tyrannical “utopias.”
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47th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 4th June 2019. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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ZeitgeistAuthor: David Duffy A recent article in the Australian newspaper spoke of Zeitgeist, the spirit of this day and age, as something pervasive and impalpable though very real, which politicians need to hitch a ride on to avoid eclipse, oblivion, and of course being voted out of office. The writer made the point that progressives now […]
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