Inspiration
Inspiring ideas, projects, history and people.
A common peoples history of the UK part 3: Levellers and ranters and diggers
Find out how the Levellers and Ranters are our ancestors in the campaign for a more a equal, just world.
A common peoples history of the UK part 2: Desolation and wilderness
Find out how Robert Kett and Thomas Moore wanted to change the world, with their ideas of Utopia.
A common peoples history of the UK part 1: Free born Englishmen
Find out about the first enclosures of land in the UK and how the common people were forced off the land into poverty and the preceding uprisings that occurred and what relevance these events have for today in this new historical serialisation about common people and the land.
Planting seeds of hope in El Salvador
The Permaculture Institute of El Salvador (IPES) brings hope to El Salvador with projects that empower people to take control of their lives, read more abut this inspiring project here
Film: The Friends of Durruti and the Maydays in Barcelona (1937)
Find out about the The Friends of Durruti and the Maydays in Barcelona (1937) and what happened during the Spanish Civil War.
ANOK4U2: Crass and Anarchism in the UK
Crass were a revolutionary band, who interweaved radical politics, art and commentary.
Fallowfield Secret Garden Project
Gavin Pate of the Fallowfield Secret Garden describes the community permaculture project that is developing.
Film: Hidden Histories: The Captain Swing riots
Captain Swing was the name used to sign letters that were delivered to land and farm owners as a means of protesting against the starvation and poverty that new grain threshing machines were creating. Read to find out about Captain Swing and more about why it’s still relevant today.
Film: Bonnington Square (Housing Cooperative)
Bonnington square is cooperative housing community established in Vauxhall in London in the early 1980’s after people who had been squatting the derelict buildings decide to legally take on the properties.
An urban forest garden Hackney shows us how it’s done
A brief history of hackney forest garden, which explains their usefulness and diversity.
Film: Ian Bone Talk ‘1919 Revolutionaries’
Ian Bone presents a rollicking ride through the year of 1919 a Year of Revolution.
Punky Reggae Party: Music in alternative culture
Reggae music and Punk rock, a musical synergy as a soundtrack to alternative culture.
Hit the road
Personal account and reflection of time spent in the new age traveller movement.