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"But simple as the tale is there is hardly better historic training for a man than to set him frankly in the streets of a quiet little town like Bury St. Edmunds, and bid him work out the history of the men who lived and died there. In the quiet, quaintly-named streets, in the town-mead and the market-place, in the Lord’s mill beside the stream, in the ruffed and future brasses of its burghers in the church, lies the real life of England and Englishmen, this life of their home and their trade, their ceaseless, sober struggle with oppression, their steady, unwearied battle for self-government. It is just in the pettiness of its details, in its common place incidents, in the want of marked features and striking events, that the real lesson of the whole story lies. For two centuries this little town of Bury St. Edmunds was winning Liberty to itself, and yet we hardly note as we pass from one little step to another little step how surely that Liberty was being won."

John Richard Green (1837-1883), grandfather of British social and cultural history.

Green, J. R., (1876), Stray studies from England and Italy, Macmillan & Co., London p.218-9

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Latest Updates

Have I Got News For You! 14/11

The Knights of Saint Edmund were featured on last Friday's (11/11!) "Have I Got News For You". In the show, the 'odd one out' round featured a picture of a Debenhams store. Debenhams was the odd one out as it is going to be cursed where the other three people featured (Steven Spielberg among them) had already been cursed.

Download Our Posters 17/11

You can find our "No to The Cattle-market Development" and "Local Shops to Local People" Posters on the Notes and Images page. The Poster can be dowloaded FREE in both JPG and PDF format, and prints on an A4 sheet.

Debenhams doesn't pay rent & more on Centros Miller's spin 02/12

A new page was added to the Campaign News, discussing the secret deal Debenhams struck in order to pay no rent for the development. A new page was also added to the Cattlemarket Development section, discussing the actual support for the proposals, and how these facts have been distorted and manipulated by Centros Miler's spin doctor.

Saint Edmund Page added 14/11

The page on Saint Edmund and the origin and meaning of his name has been added.

New Info and Pages added 04/11

For those who think this Curse is a hoax (which it is not), More Info on Curses on the More on Curses page
The Cattlemarket Agreement and Bury Council on the Cattlemarket - The Agreement page
Bury Accused of Being a Company Town added to the Campaign News page.

The Press and others discuss the Curse:

Last Sunday (30/10) in the Sunday Telegraph, page 13; the article can also be found online: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
See also their follow-up article of Saturday 19/11: http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/
A week ago (20/10) in the Scotsman: http://news.scotsman.com/uk
The Government's Planning Portal (28/10): http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/
The local paper shows it's impartiality (28/10): http://www.burystedmundstoday.co.uk/
ITV Anglia picked up on the Curse early on (21/08): http://www.itvregions.com/Anglia/News/
Paul Kingsnorth, UK blogger: http://www.paulkingsnorth.net/blog.html

More discussion about the Knights can be found here:
Indymedia.org.uk
http://modular-connections.blogspot.com/2005/10/construction-workers-face-up-to-curse.html
http://www.ninme.com/archives/2005/10/secret_orders_o.html

Earlier updates

The Miller Group, Johnston Press PLC, Anglia Newspapers Ltd. and the Bury Free Press (Part 1), on the Cattlemarket Page

Centros Miller vs Goddards Pie shop: how developers can be beaten. Check out the Campaign News Page

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