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Last weekend over a thousand British participated again in the annual “tweed Run” via Bicycle through London. Mind you: tweed not tweet. The traditional bike tour in the Outfit of the Victorian England is now very popular elsewhere in the world. Just escape into the »Yesterday – All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away«. If only for a few hours. Young and old apparently had a lot of fun to dress up like in the time of the glorious British Empire. Knickerbocker and wide skirts, jacket and peaked cap – everything from the coarse, hard -wearing cotton fabric, also in a starred pattern.
Fun brakes would certainly point out that this substance is a product of the industrial revolution, birth of uninhibited Manchester capitalism. The scholar will cite from Engel’s writing “The Location of the Working Class in England”. Or from Marxen’s essay “to the cotton crisis” from 1862, by the way very up -to -date with regard to customs war. The philosopher from Trier enjoyed a “meeting of the major dignitaries of the English industry”, on which “bitter upset” prevailed over “the protectionist tendency”, “which increased more and more” in the colonies. “The gentlemen forget that the colonies protested against the motherland’s colonial system for a century and a half. At that time, the colonies asked for free trade. England insisted on prohibition. Now England preaches free trade, and the colonies find protection against England to their interests.
Yes, Political correctness would have to commemorate the brutal allocation of the British crown colony of India. Against the protested passionately like hardly any other Gandhiji, as the immortal man in the Indian people was and is lovingly called. The studied lawyer, freedom fighter and Asket Mohandās Karamchand Gandhi, then sat down on his ashram to encourage his suffering compatriots to promote domestic production through homemade yarns and woven fabrics and boycott British textiles.
Speaking of: In Germany there are also these tweed tours, all year round, see: Tweed Rides in Deutschland | discover-gb.de
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