Tolerance is usually regarded as “the quintessential liberal value.” This position is supported by a standard liberal history that views religious toleration as emerging from the post-Reformation wars of religion as the solution to the problem of religious violence. Requiring the separation of church from state, tolerance was secured by giving the state the sole authority to punish religious violence and to protect the individual freedoms of conscience and religion. This standard liberal history exerts a powerful hold on the modern imagination: it undergirds several important recent accounts of liberal tolerance and virtually every major study of tolerance in the ancient world. Nevertheless, this familiar narrative distorts our understanding of tolerance’s premodern origins, unduly restricts the language available to us to speak about tolerance, and impoverishes present-day debates. In the lecture, Professor Atkins will illustrate these claims by showing how the standard liberal
S. Blatchley, in the book “Boulder Reveries”, 1906 referred to the “two most important days in a man’s existence as the day of birth, and the other being
Experts who were at the heart of the response to the Novichok poisonings in Salisbury in 2018 have revealed what they felt were the worst parts of the crisis. Key figures have been reflecting on what happened when Sergei and Yulia Skripal were discovered unwell on a bench in The Maltings on March 4, 2018. The three year anniversary this week will see the world once again remember when a chemical weapons attack took place right here in Wiltshire. But while others across the globe will only look back fleetingly, in Salisbury locals are still dealing with the impacts of what happened. The community has been celebrated for its strength and resilience but those dramatic months left scars which run deep - for businesses, families and emergency workers.
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