Aunt Helen
Posted in What's goin' on on Oct 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Aunt Helen turned 101 on 21 September. I hope I look this good if I get to be her age. I hope I look this good now!
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DSMT1
Posted in What's goin' on on Oct 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Greetings from Manchester. Several weeks ago Van dubbed this trip my “Dark Satanic Mills Tour,” (hence DSMT) but yesterday was more like England’s “green and pleasant land.” The plane arrived around 6:45 am and I was in Stockport, at my host’s house, just over an hour later. Stockport proper is a busy [...]
Dissertation Update
Posted in British History, History of Science, Reflections, What's goin' on on Sep 17th, 2007 No Comments »
The dissertation prospectus is done and has been distributed to all committee members. In a nutshell, my research is about early socialism and its connections to the early social sciences as well as to other kinds of social reform. I argue that the schemes we call “Utopian socialism” were less Utopian than they were [...]
