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My name is Tony Sidaway.
I've been adding odd bits and bobs of local history of the English region of my birth, where I spent most of my life until 1993 when I moved to London.
There is a fair amount to be proud of, I suppose, though as with most history it doesn't really foster pride if you look beneath the surface. The Jarrow Crusade, for instance, is a source of pride in my region, but only because at the time my people were so enslaved to their masters that they could be discarded like old boots--and they were. The march was really just a way of saying to Parliament "we are human, you cannot let them treat us like this." It didn't directly achieve any improvement in the lot of the people of Jarrow. So was it a failure? No, I don't think it was. It makes people like me feel a pride--perhaps irrational--in the spirit of the people of my region. They were downtrodden, but some of them decided to do something about it.
From Misplaced Pages, I found that Lewis Carroll was inspired in his Alice books when he was staying in Whitburn village, where I spent more than one third of my forty-eight years. I knew already that he was no stranger to the Sunderland area. Why do I cling to such connections? I don't know. I suppose I'm looking for something to make me part of something. Which Whitburn village, for the most part, is not.
I'm finding the Talk:Clitoris discussion amusing. Is it really so controversial for articles in encyclopedias to be illustrated? In 2004?