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Dr Aisling Tierney
@IrishAshyT
Lecturer @bristoluni @biltonline & @HeritageSwindon | OfS Lead Assessor | Archaeology Albania | Tweets=personal | SFHEA #BLM #LGBTQ+#UCU | TephraArts, Etsy
Oct 24, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Interesting fact re incumbent PM Sunak - he founded a hedge fund firm called Theleme Partners.

The Abbey of Theleme is a ref to Francois Rabelais, the hilarious genius who parodied contemporary Renaissance life. The abbey was unlike any other & links to the Hellfire Clubs...🧵 Francis Dashwood painted as... The Thélème motto was "do what thou wilt" (FAY CE QVE VOVDRAS), a corruption of earlier Christian doctrine. In the abbey this meant that the monks & nuns admitted should do as they please - by virtue of their natural grace, anything they would want to do would be God approved