Incredible story about the dig and its strange connection with William's tragically short life. It's fascinating to retrace Engels' steps in your company, but also to hear individual stories of courage and endurance.
Thanks for the latest Engels installment . I do find the man fascinating but like you, I want to know more about the actual people that lived there. Their stories , that have been buried under the car park and may never be told, unlike Richard 111 in Leicester, are our link with a difficult past. The days of peeling back the layers are probably now over as more and more high rises are covering that wasteland that I remember.
Without your input, Dean , the story of your forebears living in that celler would never have been known . How lucky that the dig corresponded with you just being there able to observe and question. Just two weeks , it's amazing really but it changed the course of your life.
Engels was an observer ,I don't suppose he could actually really do anything for those poor unfortunates he came across on his walk to the dark side in Angel Meadow. His legacy was in writing about it but his agenda was ultimately the communist manifesto I suppose. The evidence in his book was to further that cause.
At least the 1851 census names these individuals and makes them human.
Thanks for writing the series. I am moving to Manchester soon and this has given me a new way to think about the city. I've some Engels, but I had not connected his writing to the fact I am going to live there. I think that the criticism that Engels was an overzealous lumper rather than a splitter is a keen one.
The categories to lump people into two groups certainly invites readers to see these groups as homogenous and as being defined by labor relations rather than other aspects of their lives. There surely were significant differences between different kinds of workers and there surely was a lot of joy, a lot of kindness, and a lot of community. As there was surely a lot of suffering. Likewise, the bourgeoise were not a homogenous group and I'd venture to suggest that there were likely different degrees of exploitation and different degrees of efforts to help their workers.
I certainly enjoyed the four posts, but agree that some greater variety would be nice -- Engels can always reappear here and there.
Incredible story about the dig and its strange connection with William's tragically short life. It's fascinating to retrace Engels' steps in your company, but also to hear individual stories of courage and endurance.
Thanks for the latest Engels installment . I do find the man fascinating but like you, I want to know more about the actual people that lived there. Their stories , that have been buried under the car park and may never be told, unlike Richard 111 in Leicester, are our link with a difficult past. The days of peeling back the layers are probably now over as more and more high rises are covering that wasteland that I remember.
Without your input, Dean , the story of your forebears living in that celler would never have been known . How lucky that the dig corresponded with you just being there able to observe and question. Just two weeks , it's amazing really but it changed the course of your life.
Engels was an observer ,I don't suppose he could actually really do anything for those poor unfortunates he came across on his walk to the dark side in Angel Meadow. His legacy was in writing about it but his agenda was ultimately the communist manifesto I suppose. The evidence in his book was to further that cause.
At least the 1851 census names these individuals and makes them human.
Has that car park now been built upon ?
Thanks for writing the series. I am moving to Manchester soon and this has given me a new way to think about the city. I've some Engels, but I had not connected his writing to the fact I am going to live there. I think that the criticism that Engels was an overzealous lumper rather than a splitter is a keen one.
The categories to lump people into two groups certainly invites readers to see these groups as homogenous and as being defined by labor relations rather than other aspects of their lives. There surely were significant differences between different kinds of workers and there surely was a lot of joy, a lot of kindness, and a lot of community. As there was surely a lot of suffering. Likewise, the bourgeoise were not a homogenous group and I'd venture to suggest that there were likely different degrees of exploitation and different degrees of efforts to help their workers.
I certainly enjoyed the four posts, but agree that some greater variety would be nice -- Engels can always reappear here and there.