Everyone is very welcome to attend this Changing Landscapes symposium and book launch at the University of Reading on 15th June. No need to book but do message or email me if you will be coming along so we know about numbers.

Dreaming #oilpainting #childrensportraits

It's publication day for OUR NHS. Thanks to my family, friends, colleagues, and the wonderful team at Yale who supported me over the many years of writing my first book. Available in all good bookshops!

My ethics application was approved so I can finally share this! I'm conducting oral history interviews with people involved in the Merseyside women's movement c.1969-1990s. Please share far and wide and let me know if you/anyone you know are interested. Happy to share more deets!

My copy of Idler has arrived with the first of my Dartington Trust residency poems ✨ inspired by my time there, its radical history, Dorothy Elmhirst, & Anna Neima’s book ‘Practical Utopia.’ Thanks to Idler editor @poetclare for giving it a home 🌳🌿❄️

Edward Hopper started drawing at age 5. His paint box was labelled “Would-be Artist”. At age 9 he made this sketch on the back of his school report card. For the rest of his life, he would retain his fascination with solitary contemplation and the sea

Child and chickens #contemporarypainting #oilpainting

Berlin! Where we celebrate Jean Rhys’s birthday on the U-bahn!

EDITOR’S NOTE: Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams - Jean Rhys to you - was born on August 24th 1890. “I've had rather a rum life, but I was thinking the other day, would I go through it all again? I think not.” Portrait by Paul Joyce, 1977.

A privilege this morning to talk on the refugees of Dartington Hall at the Insiders Outsiders Festival symposium 'Creative Sanctuary' and also to hear Anna Neima's fascinating opening talk on Dartington as a 'Practical Utopia'

Twilight of the New Age? Findhorn, Omega Institute, Schumacher College, and several other venerable spiritual centres are in crisis. Here are eight reasons why, with contributions from Alastair McIntosh George Monbiot and Anna Neima ecstaticintegration.org/p/twilight-of-…

Proofs! Proofs! Proofs!

Reading day. Dreaming of a December this tranquil #gouache #illustration

Last chance saloon! There are fewer than 50 copies left of my beloved book, The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians. It’s been through three print runs and these are the very last ones. Available direct from the publisher’s bookshop: donlonbooks.com/products/the-k…

Perché un'altra guerra? Se anche voi ve lo chiedete, fatevi ispirare dagli utopisti che in varie parti del mondo voltarono le spalle a #militarismo #violenza e #capitalismo «Gli utopisti. Sei esperimenti per una società perfetta» di Anna Neima ➡ bit.ly/neima_utopisti

My book, 'Histories of Everyday Life', which is a social history of social history in mid-C20 Britain, is published in paperback today with OUP History at a very respectable price 🪇 (Thanks to everyone who has already engaged with it!) global.oup.com/academic/produ…

An experience I wish could be part of every childhood #gouache #illustration #painting #ruralchildhood #countrychildhood #farmsforcitychildren

It was a pleasure to host today’s study day about the history of Dartington Hall (Dartington Trust) as part of the Devon History Soc Devon in the 1920s project, managed by Julia Neville and featuring Anna Neima.

Join us! The Doors of Perception one-day course – its history, philosophy, artistry, etc. – in the Dartington estate where Aldous Huxley was once based. 6th July with Andy Letcher, Anna Neima, Rob Dickins, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes. Details: dartington.org/event/the-door…

The HNS 2024 UK Conference is almost here! Online tickets available. Check HNS2024.com for full line-up & more info #historicalfiction #writingconference #writingcommunity #hns2024 Diana Gabaldon Bernard Cornwell @KateQuinnAuthor Ian Mortimer C. C. Humphreys Anna Neima