Blasphemy in Victorian Britain? Foote and the Freethinker. (George William Foote, editor of The Freethinker)

History Today | October 1, 1995| | Copyright

In the aftermath of one of the most famous brushes with the religious laws of England, George William Foote concluded by way of a pyrrhic victory that `Blasphemy is entirely a matter of opinion. What is blasphemy in one country is piety in another. Progress tends to reduce it from a crime to an affair of taste'.

So might the history of blasphemy in Britain be summarised. It is an issue each generation feels confident is dead but it frequently rises to confront British society with questions about its level of tolerance, its attitude to freedom of speech and to ...

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