tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339546647139712487.post4361587039971120190..comments2024-03-16T02:18:40.148-07:00Comments on Wessex Regionalists: The Culture KillersDavid Robinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15771605556010025142noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339546647139712487.post-75165695600733173222011-08-08T06:19:24.439-07:002011-08-08T06:19:24.439-07:00This one post isn't to be taken out of context...This one post isn't to be taken out of context. In no way do we despise the history of our region post-1066. Neither the Clubmen nor the Tolpuddle Martyrs would have thought in terms of a territory called Wessex but they nevertheless expressed ideas at the very heart of what Wessex is about.<br /><br />Wessex today can be the cultural and political framework for ensuring that such ideas have a future. History is our inspiration, not our blueprint, and certainly not the straitjacket that those 'strange revivalists' would make it.David Robinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15771605556010025142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339546647139712487.post-66803002395038341882011-08-05T16:51:40.580-07:002011-08-05T16:51:40.580-07:00The Normans brought much disruption and destructio...The Normans brought much disruption and destruction, but isn't the post-1066 history and identity of our region indispensable to any sensible West Country regionalism?<br /><br />I'm not sure I'm a Wessex Regionalist, per se, any more, but I still support English decentralism. I think it is important to avoid being just strange revivalists and make sure we connect the ancient history's of our regions and locales to the later ones. The Norman, Medieval and early modern history of our region is not to be despised.Westcountrymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14604565103836807803noreply@blogger.com