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Gustav Nagel

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Raw Vegans, Nature Boys, Early Hippies

  “I look crazy but I’m not. And the funny thing is that other people don’t look crazy but they are.” – eden ahbez    Postcards of Gustaf Nagel – circa 1915 A taster of some of our Ernest Bell Library items – celebrating mavericks – many were raw vegans. Wandervogel – or Naturmenschen were a group of late 19th and early 20th century Germany and Swiss “Natural Men”, who wore…

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General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Le Végétalien – does anyone have a copy of this old French newspaper?

(Update 3 August 2014) Notes on French vegan history.   Click the links to go to the original pages which are in French! Notes sur l’histoire française végétalien. Cliquez sur les liens pour accéder aux pages d’origine sont en français! ‘Bascon’ – a vegan – nudist – communist / anarchist – commune in Essômes-sur-Marne – near – Chateau-Thierry – France – between 1911 to 1931. &  ‘Foyer’, located 40 rue Mathis (19th…

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