No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen: Back to the Land in Wartime England

Worpole, Ken

ISBN 10: 1908213868 / ISBN 13: 9781908213860

Verlag: Little Toller, 2021

As New paperback. 167 pp Paperback. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 61468

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On 'Lady Day', March 1943 a group of Christian pacifists took possession of a vacant farm in Frating, a hamlet on the Essex Tendring Peninsula. There they established a working community, inspired by their association with The Adelphi journal, where D.H.Lawrence, John Middleton Murry, Vera Brittain, Iris Murdoch, George Orwell and others shared ideas for the future with European religious radicals such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Martin Buber and Simone Weil. Frating Hall Farm provided a settlement and livelihood for individuals and families (as well as a temporary sanctuary for refugees and prisoners-of-war), and over time became a successful arable and livestock land-holding of more than 300 acres. Scorned initially by their neighbours for their anti-war views, the Frating community won respect not only through their farming achievements, but having established a touring theatre company and choir, for bringing new life to the villages and churches around them. The lost story of Frating Hall Farm is based on the reminiscences of those who grew up on the farm, together with photographs, letters and organisational records, never before seen or published. The book is a kaleidoscopic history of a farm during its eleven-year occupation, and an enquiry into the passionate religious and political ideals of the back-to-the-land movement in wartime and post-war rural England.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Ken Worpole is a writer and social historian, and the author of many books on architecture, aesthetics, landscape and public policy. He was once described by The Independent as 'one of the shrewdest and sharpest observers of the English social landscape.' A founder member of think-tanks Demos and OpenDemocracy, in recent years he has focused on post-industrial landscapes, settlements and communities, together with questions of 'Englishness' and regional identity.

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Titel: No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen: Back ...
Verlag: Little Toller
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Einband: Softcover