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It's funny how your brain draws connections between things. @JonnElledge tweeted thus: https://t.co/4d14S0uPwD as my head was still pondering Ryan's question on Dr Who: "Rosa Parks? Wasn't she the first woman to drive a bus?"
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I was born in the same year that Dr Who was set this week. I, like @DAaronovitch (see https://t.co/nvMTzda99i ) grew up in a household with more than its fair share of Paul Robeson, Ian Campbell Folk Group, and Pete Seeger gramophone records; and a wireless set.
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We got our first (single channel) black and white TV set in time for the first episode of Dr Who. My formative years were spend hearing radio reports of and seeing grainy pictures of US cops beating crowds of black people over their heads and setting dogs on them;
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and (later) British troops blowing huge craters in Irish back roads and the locals arriving hours (or even minutes) later with their tractors and diggers to fill them in again and make the roads passable once more for local people and IRA weapons deliveries.
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Thus, partly because of my age, partly because of my upbringing, I'm always taken aback when (often younger) people around me (on here or IRL) aren't familiar with stuff like the Montgomery Bus Boycott (& its context) or the cratering of border roads in Ireland (& its context)
It's funny how your brain draws connections between things. @JonnElledge tweeted thus: https://t.co/4d14S0uPwD as my head was still pondering Ryan's question on Dr Who: "Rosa Parks? Wasn't she the first woman to drive a bus?"
this is fascinating https://t.co/U0rttHp5Gz
— Jonn still hates Halloween (@JonnElledge) October 22, 2018
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I was born in the same year that Dr Who was set this week. I, like @DAaronovitch (see https://t.co/nvMTzda99i ) grew up in a household with more than its fair share of Paul Robeson, Ian Campbell Folk Group, and Pete Seeger gramophone records; and a wireless set.
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We got our first (single channel) black and white TV set in time for the first episode of Dr Who. My formative years were spend hearing radio reports of and seeing grainy pictures of US cops beating crowds of black people over their heads and setting dogs on them;
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and (later) British troops blowing huge craters in Irish back roads and the locals arriving hours (or even minutes) later with their tractors and diggers to fill them in again and make the roads passable once more for local people and IRA weapons deliveries.
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Thus, partly because of my age, partly because of my upbringing, I'm always taken aback when (often younger) people around me (on here or IRL) aren't familiar with stuff like the Montgomery Bus Boycott (& its context) or the cratering of border roads in Ireland (& its context)