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Searching for ABC

Posted on December 19, 2020 by chris-coates

People In Common was nothing if not ambitious from it’s start in the mid-seventies.In it’s very first leaflet there was the suggestion of maybe finding a derelict village somewhere Continue reading Searching for ABC→

Posted in communal connections, Communal Living, hippies, People In Common

Digging & Dreaming

Posted on October 17, 2020 by chris-coates

I was looking for some way to contribute something back to the Communes Network in a way that was more than just ‘living it’. I saw what we were doing as a viable way to live and wanted to encourage more people to give it a try Continue reading Digging & Dreaming→

Posted in communal connections | Tagged Communes Network, Diggers & Dreamers

How Many Arks Does it Take? Part 2

Posted on September 21, 2017 by chris-coates

Why a generation that had grown up in the shadow of one world war and  just lived through a second would  set up intentional communities driven by thoughts of impending doom and of founding refuges and ‘Arks’ is perhaps understandable (See How Continue reading How Many Arks Does it Take? Part 2→

Posted in communal connections, hippies, Spiritual Intentional Communities | Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Findhorn

How Many Arks Does it Take? Part 1

Posted on July 9, 2017 by chris-coates

“ …. an ark is a symbol for a refuge in a time of trouble. Noah was warned of the disasters ahead; we also will require an ark in the time to come, and there is a small group of Continue reading How Many Arks Does it Take? Part 1→

Posted in communal connections, Early 20th Century, Spiritual Intentional Communities | Tagged 1940s, 1950s, Coombe Springs, Lyne Place

How big is BIG?

Posted on November 1, 2014 by chris-coates

Having come across a couple of articles recently on village sized communities I have dusted off some writing I did a while ago on group size. If you search for information on human group sizes you will very quickly come Continue reading How big is BIG?→

Posted in communal connections, Communal Living | Tagged 1970s, 1980s, Bruderhof

Little Vessels of Heavenly Medicine & Balloons of Knowledge

Posted on October 5, 2014 by chris-coates

On the 25th of March 1811 a young English student was expelled from University College Oxford for sending copies of a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism to all the bishops & heads of college. The former Eton scholar had Continue reading Little Vessels of Heavenly Medicine & Balloons of Knowledge→

Posted in communal connections | Tagged Shelley

Squatting in Billionaires Row

Posted on February 14, 2014 by chris-coates

A couple of weeks ago the Guardian ran a story with the headline  – Inside ‘Billionaires Row’: London’s rotting, derelict mansions worth £350m – about the large number of huge empty mansions being left to rot while there is a Continue reading Squatting in Billionaires Row→

Posted in communal connections, hippies | Tagged 1970s, squatting

Walden 3.2

Posted on October 19, 2013 by chris-coates

“Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way– to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Continue reading Walden 3.2→

Posted in communal connections, hippies | Tagged 1960s, 1970s, BF Skinner, Brian Eno, Communal living, Crabapple community, Stafford Beer, Walden Two

Communes & Festivals

Posted on May 11, 2013 by chris-coates

In June 2011 whilst at a friends birthday party the conversation drifted to everyone telling their own Glastonbury Tales. Wearing my green credentials on my sleeve I proclaimed that I would never now go to Glastonbury as “Why would anyone Continue reading Communes & Festivals→

Posted in communal connections, hippies | Tagged Braziers Park, Communes, Festivals, Glastonbury, Postlip Hall

Communal Family Trees (Part 2)

Posted on April 27, 2013 by chris-coates

 “….My parents had been an interesting but struggling couple who lived in a caravan in Evesham. Which was swept away by a river. People then felt sorry for them and they went and lived in an old cricket pavilion. When Continue reading Communal Family Trees (Part 2)→

Posted in communal connections, pacifism | Tagged 1950s, Bruderhof, Communal living, Communes, Communes Network, Lower Shaw Farm, Wheathill

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