#reformer

And I didn’t want to mix media/posts with the other types but I can’t help myself. So here’s a little series of quotes from film/TV for each type #.

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Thomas Muir of Huntershill, the Glasgow-born Advocate, was arrested for sedition on the 2nd January 1793.

Can you imagine the polis tryiung to round everyone up in Scotkland today, for what was percieved as sedition back in the late 18th applied nowadays? The jails would be full!

Anyway, back to the serious stuff.

Muir attended the University of Glasgow from the age of 10 years and graduated with an MA at the age of 17 years, becoming an Advocate in Law at the age of 22 years and practiced law in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

He was a product of the ‘Scottish Enlightenment’ and became a noted reformer and was a leader of Scottish ‘The Friends of the People’, and the ‘United Scotsmen’

Muir practised as an advocate from 1787 until being struck off in 1793 following his indictment on the charge of sedition. While he was facing trial and was a fugitive from justice, the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland expelled him. Brought to trial, he was convicted and sentenced to 14 years transportation to Australia, following which there began an adventure made for Hollywood and which I for one have found particularly interesting.

Escaping from Sydney Cove in 1796 on an American ship, he crossed the Pacific. finally ending up in California, then a Spanish outpost, on to Mexico City and ultimately Havana in Cuba, to await the departure of a convoy to Spain. Sailing for Spain, the ship he was on was intercepted by the Royal Navy. Badly disfigured in the conflict, he was not recognised and was sent ashore with the wounded.

Now began a long and painful recovery while the French and Spanish authorities indulged in a bitter diplomatic wrangle over Muir’s release.

In 1797, the Spanish Government relented and decreed Muir’s release and perpetual banishment from Spanish territories. Muir made his way to France by way of Spain. Arriving in France, he was hailed publicly as a “Hero of the French Republic” and a “Martyr of Liberty”. Feted by the civic authorities and literary societies, his last portrait, commissioned for display in public buildings, shows him with a large black patch over his left eye. The loss of his left cheekbone had caused that side of his face to droop, revealing the teeth in a perpetual grimace.

On this day, we remember Savitribai Phule; a woman who turned education into resistance and courage into revolution.

When patriarchy enforced silence, she opened schools for girls, Dalits, and the oppressed.

She taught dignity, equality, and freedom.

Her legacy reminds us that education is the most powerful weapon against oppression, and real change always begins with fearless minds.

I think she was the Mother of Indian feminism....

👉 and i think #Feminism did NOT start with a vagina.

It started with a spine.

It started with courage.

It started with dignity..

It started with freedom....

It started with the Savitribai Phule...

John Calvin (1509-1564)

Artist: Enoch Seeman the Younger (British, c.1694-1744)

Date: 1714-1744

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

John Calvin, French Theologian

John Calvin (Jean Cauvin) (1509-1564) was born in Noyon, Picardy, the son of an ecclesiastical lawyer. He attended the University of Paris to train for the priesthood but then began to train for the law at Orleans and Bourges and received his first interest in theology. He then began to preach the reformed doctrines and travelled to Paris, Noyon, and Nerac. On his return to Paris, he realized that his life was no longer safe in France and fled to Basel.

In 1536 he published The Institutes of the Christian Religion. Calvin taught that certain people 'the elect' are predestined for eternal life and the remainder are damned, also that salvation was a gift from God and man's good works were a sign of that salvation and not its cause.

He eventually settled in Geneva and took over the work of Guillaume Farel of directing the religious and political life of the city. Among other reforms affecting the lives of the citizens of Basel, he banned all public entertainment, issued regulations on dress and insisted on absolute puritanism in their private lives. He was expelled from the city in 1538, but returned three years later and imposed a code of intolerance on religious matters and strict social and puritan morality.