Bradlaugh Party!

10/04/2009 15:50
This is a photo of the Charles Bradlaugh Society, which met in Northampton (I’d assume around CB’s birthday on Sept. 26th) for their 8th annual celebration of the atheist, radical leader’s life. A nice man I’ve never met, named Norman Adams, sent me a clipping from the Northampton Chronicle and Echo. He apparently saw my website, www.bradlaugh.com, because he commented on my interest in both Bradlaugh and Alan Moore, the graphic novel author (From Hell) who spoke at the event.

My interest in Bradlaugh began a couple of years ago, when I discovered him during a British History class I was taking in Minnesota. I’ve written parts of a couple of biographies of Bradlaugh (an adult version, a young adult version, and I’ve played around with a historical novel as well; but that’s a long story), but I really need to go to London and read the archive at Bishopsgate before I’m ready to complete that project.

The clipping came at the right time, to remind me why I got into the history PhD program, and what I ought to be doing. So now, I remember…

Thanks, Norman!

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