Sunday 30 May 2010

The name of the blog

Since I don't intend to post to a fixed timetable occasional is a pretty fair description. And since I try to make my own mind up, I hope to display a healthy nonconformity with accepted wisdom.

It echoes the name of the Occasional Conformity Act of 1711. This was a piece of Tory mischief, intended to exclude nonconformists, who were their political opponents, from public office. I'm enthusiast for the Eighteenth Century, and spend quite a lot of time there.

1 comment:

  1. And of course all the good names were already taken.

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