Kenneth Blackwell

[Kenneth Blackwell @RussellArchives]

As 1918 rolls on, this day -100 years Bertie was told that Eric, beloved son of the Whiteheads, was killed in air combat in World War I. BR wrote from prison he could be happy when he "can forget the havoc and death everywhere." Was he happy and could he forget it? #1918Russell

[Kenneth Blackwell @RussellArchives]

The War Office was very concerned that Bertie's brother viewed the new prosecution of BR as vindictive. Frank's reply -100 years to Gen. Cockerill's letter is catalogued at https://t.co/kqb1CaAm5O. Cockerill laid down the 1916 prohibition keeping BR from the sea. #1918Russell

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With Russell's appeal of his conviction approaching, Bernard Shaw wrote vigorously 100 years ago today to offer strategic advice for him, pointing out America's conflict with its own workers. BR was prosecuted for doing this. Read it in BR's Auto., v.2, ch.1. #1918Russell

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Russell took time out from his pressing concerns minus 100 years today to evaluate Dorothy Wrinch's mathematics thesis, "Transfinite Types", for Girton College. It gave "possibilities of very important theorems". See M. Senechal, I Died for Beauty (OUP, 2013), 63. #1918Russell

[Kenneth Blackwell @RussellArchives]

Today minus 100 years Bertrand Russell was guest of honour at a No-Conscription Fellowship dinner at Canuto's. It was in appreciation of his service past and service to come in the form of imprisonment in Brixton. No record alas! is known of his speech. CPBR 8: lxxx. #1918Russell

[Kenneth Blackwell @RussellArchives]

Still, to be up with BR during 1918, one must read not only "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism" and "Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy" but RF -- and make a start on "The Analysis of Mind". He had a productive year. #1918Russell

[Kenneth Blackwell @RussellArchives]

Re "Roads to Freedom": "I am working day and night at the book I want to finish before going in [to Brixton prison]—it is best to be busy during this time, I think. The book will be very dull, as my heart is not in it" (letter to Ottoline Morrell, -100 years today #1918Russell).

[Kenneth Blackwell @RussellArchives]

On this day -100 years Russell blocked off the morning for secretary-typist Eva Kyle. He was writing (or dictating) "(Proposed) Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism" (1918) to meet deadlines of Apr. 11 for ms and then appeal of his prison sentence. #1918Russell

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one, and if you do not find it otherwise attractive, all that it is necessary to do is to acquire a taste for mathematics, and then you will have a very agreeable world, and with that conclusion I will bring this course of lectures to an end." CPBR 8: 243-4. #1918Russell

[Kenneth Blackwell @RussellArchives]

100 years ago March 12, Bertrand Russell gave the final lecture of "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism" series, concluding: "I would say this too, that for those who have any taste for mathematics, for those who like symbolic constructions, that sort of world is a very delightful

[Kenneth Blackwell @RussellArchives]

@CDFHumanists Yes -- from 1968-70. It's recorded in the Russell Archives.

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The winter 2012 issue of "Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies" was published yesterday: http://t.co/rDO7DJKu

[Kenneth Blackwell @RussellArchives]

"Why, then, do the 99% not combine to overcome the resistance of the privileged 1%?" Introduction to Russell's "Selected Papers" (1927), xvi

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"Principia Mathematica at 100" special issue of "Russell" is published at http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/russelljournal/ for subscribers.

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Table of contents of the "Principia@100" summer issue of "Russell" is at http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/russelljournal/forthcoming.html.

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The Bertrand Russell Society will meet to hear papers May 20-22 at Drew U., Madison, NJ. Register via http://russell.mcmaster.ca/brsmeeting

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The winter issue of "Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies" was published today: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/russelljournal

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Collecting Bertrand Russell's letters: see story and photo at http://library.mcmaster.ca/news/8307

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"The radio and cinema between them take up a great deal of #time that would formerly have been spent in #reading." 1951 Bibliographyv1:l

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".. [Milton's] #hopes ended in disappointment, but something shining and noble descended from them to later generations." 1956 v29:89