Diggers and Dreamers
Diggers and Dreamers
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Nancy Thompson – Growing up Hippie
Nancy spent her early years at Shrub Family in Norfolk. In this podcast she tells us just how inspiring it was to grow up in the alternative East Anglian culture of the 1970s and 80s.


Shrub Family diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/shrub-family
Albion Fairs fairsarchive.wordpress.com
Global Village Trucking Company (BBC documentary) ruclips.net/video/1SNrBey7yQI/видео.html
Spaceheads: spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/
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Intentional Communities Symposium 2024: Third Session/Book Launch
Просмотров 77День назад
The Intentional Communities Research Group has been running symposia since 2014. Their 2024 Symposium became a part of the UK Communities Conference (held at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire) with live sessions every evening that were also streamed online to participants around the world. This is a recording of the third of those sessions which took place on Saturday July 20th. It morphed into a book...
Intentional Communities Symposium 2024: Second Session
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The Intentional Communities Research Group has been running symposia since 2014. Their 2024 Symposium became a part of the UK Communities Conference (held at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire) with live sessions every evening that were also streamed online to participants around the world. This is a recording of the second of those sessions which took place on Friday July 19th. It focussed on the prac...
Intentional Communities Symposium 2024: First Session
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The Intentional Communities Research Group has been running symposia since 2014. Their 2024 Symposium became a part of the UK Communities Conference (held at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire) with live sessions every evening that were also streamed online to participants around the world. This is a recording of the first of those sessions which took place on Thursday July 18th. It focussed on the pre...
Freer Spreckley - Lifespan: A Commune on the Moors
Просмотров 3514 дней назад
As Lifespan Community celebrates its half centenary we bring you an interview with Freer Spreckley who was one of the founders back in 1974. He and Hylda Sims were both alumni of the famous Summerhill School and originally saw Lifespan as being a kind of lifelong version of Summerhill. Freer describes the early years of that isolated intentional community based in terraced houses, located high ...
Cath Muller - Communes in the North
Просмотров 382 месяца назад
Cath Muller has had a long history in co-operativism having had a key role in the Radical Routes Network as well as being a member of Cornerstone Housing Co-op in Leeds. A few years ago she travelled (over-sea) to North America and was particularly inspired by a visit to Twin Oaks Community in Virginia. Now she's working with others to create "A Commune in the North" with the idea of bring abou...
Jonathan How - bringing co-operation to a wider audience
Просмотров 253 месяца назад
In this episode we're going in-house and speaking to Jonathan How - one of the original members of the Diggers & Dreamers team. As well as communal living he's had past involvements in radical bookshops, wholefoods, publishing, co-op development and more recently local government. Following his path from the British urban squatting movement of the 1970s to the present day we hear how his conclu...
Bill Metcalf - a Lifelong Communitarian
Просмотров 263 месяца назад
This month we welcome Dr Bill Metcalf both a lifelong communitarian and an academic based in Australia. Bill starts us off by exploring the definition of intentional community and the utopian goal of living a ‘better’ life. This prompts the question of what we mean by better, who gets to decide this, how is this shaped by the politics and history of communities? Dr William Metcalf: hpi.uq.edu.a...
Whiteway Colony - Anarchy in the Cotswolds
Просмотров 303 месяца назад
In this episode host Kirsten Stevens-Wood interviews David Harris, who is a resident and archivist from an extraordinary community called Whiteway Colony. Whiteway was founded in 1898 by Tolstoyan anarchists, and has been going strong for over 125 years. David shares some of Whiteway’s most interesting stories, including intrusions from spies, accusations of “beastly morals”, and sharing taken ...
"Commune on the Moors" Book Launch
Просмотров 6123 года назад
This is a recording of an online event which launched the book: "Commune on the Moors". It's all about Lifespan - the UK intentional community which was founded in 1974 and took its inspiration from the famous Summerhill School. Its nineteen terraced houses are situated high up in a remote part of the Yorkshire Moors. Freer Spreckley and other members - both past and present - describe the many...

Комментарии

  • @helentucker6407
    @helentucker6407 17 дней назад

    Wow, dont know why this popped up! I used to read a book called diggers and dreamers off a friends bookshelf years ago! Like a directory it was. Enjoying your podcast 👍 👍

  • @markwebb400
    @markwebb400 17 дней назад

    Really good

  • @henryvaughan757
    @henryvaughan757 2 месяца назад

    This whole movement should be at the front of public thinking. It’s the future x