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Simon Young was awarded a starred First in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from Cambridge University, as well as the Chadwick Prize for Celtic studies. Since then he has lived in Spain, Ireland and Italy. The author of many academic articles, he has also written about the Dark Ages for History Today, the Spectator, and the Guardian. ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 605 ratings · 118 reviews · 58 distinct works • Similar authors

	A.D. 500: A Journey Through The Dark Isles Of Britain And Ireland 3.67 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So Much for the 30 Year Plan: Therapy? The Authorised Biography 4.11 avg rating — 127 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present by Simon Young, Ceri Houlbrook (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 72 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga Of Roman Britain 3.46 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Celtic Revolution: In Search of 2000 Forgotten Years That Changed Our World 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Analysis of Tony Judt's Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fairy Census, 2014–2017 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Man is not born free, but everywhere in biological chains. People of the world, unite! - you have nothing to lose but your biological chains.”
― Simon Young, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

tags: marx, philosophy, rousseau, transhumanism

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“The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny.”
― Simon Young

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“As humanism freed us from the chains of superstition, let transhumanism free us from our biological chains.”
― Simon Young, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

tags: humanism, immortality, philosophy, transhumanism

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