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Articles by Anna Neima
Do fight, don’t kill
John Stuart Mill approved of dissent. In ‘On Liberty’, he argued that vigorous debate improved society and that unconventional behaviour lit the path to freer and more fulfilling lives. He urged the widest tolerance for opinion, speech and even what he charmingly called ‘experiments of living’. Without such pinpricks, he argued, like-minded majorities would grow intolerant and democracies would slide into despotism. Mill made resisting social norms a social duty of its own.
Practical Utopia
Skip to main content Accessibility help We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, set up in Devon in 1925 by a fabulously wealthy American heiress, Dorothy Elmhirst (née Whitney), and her Yorkshire-born husband, Leonard.
How Should We Navigate the Changing Linguistics of Race?
I was standing in the echoey entry hall of the British Library when I took a call from an interviewee I was scheduled to meet the following week. I’m in the middle of an oral history project exploring the experiences of white families in the Caribbean in the decades around independence and, as part of that project, I am doing a series of life history interviews. The caller, let’s call him Christopher, was in his nineties.
In Nothing But Their Shoes
I started reading Annebella Pollen’s Nudism in a Cold Climate while standing in the queue to get my Covid booster. It was a long queue — snaking around the block and out to the park so that even those of us who had joined early had to wait several hours before we made it inside. But within minutes of cracking open the spine I noticed that my nearest neighbours were inching closer to me so that they could look over my shoulder.
The Utopians by Anna Neima
Anna Neima Synopsis 'Neima’s book, impeccably researched and beautifully written, will be an inspiration for anyone looking to an alternative future today.' - Stella Tillyard, author of Aristocrats and The Great Level 'Deeply interesting and a pleasure to read, The Utopians illuminates the history of “social dreaming” at a time when it has never been more needed.' - Alison Light, author of A Radical Romance, Common People and Mrs.
Le idee e i diritti | La storia formidabile del Partito radicale, raccontata da un protagonista - Linkiesta.it
Durante tutta la campagna del referendum abrogativo della legge Fortuna, sia la Lega Italiana per il Divorzio sia il Partito Radicale furono praticamente tagliati fuori da ogni manifestazione pubblica e da ogni confronto e dibattito televisivo riservato ai partiti e alle forze politiche favorevoli alla conferma della legge.
Will communes save the world?
San Francisco was built on swamp and landfill. Mid-nineteenth-century settlers scuttled the hulls of the ships that had brought them to California and covered them with debris and sand, creating more land to build on. It was a ramshackle approach to construction, one that aligned with the every-man-for-himself atmosphere of this Gold Rush settlement. And then, in 1906, an earthquake destroyed the fragile city. Buildings toppled. Broken gas pipes and fallen powerlines started fires.
Il fascino degli utopisti | Esperimenti per una società perfetta - Linkiesta.it
Le utopie sono una sorta di sogno sociale. Inventare un mondo «perfetto» – in un romanzo, un manifesto o una comunità vivente – significa mettere a nudo quanto vi è di sbagliato in quello reale. Gli utopisti rifiutano di accontentarsi dei miglioramenti sociali ottenibili con i soliti metodi: la disobbedienza civile, le politiche elettorali, la rivoluzione violenta. Nel corso della storia hanno scelto un approccio ogni volta diverso per articolare la propria visione di società trasformata.
Week in review
Recent links of note: “Edward Daniel Clarke—collector of the world” Edmund Richardson, Engelsberg Ideas Edward Daniel Clarke (1769–1822) was an English polymath and adventurer before specialization delineated disciplines such as history and science. As the classics professor Edmund Richardson recounts in Engelsberg Ideas, Clarke found himself in Egypt in 1801 just as Napoleon’s forces were capitulating to the British.
The Utopians by Anna Neima
Anna Neima Synopsis 'Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' – Sunday Times 'Thanks to Neima’s rigorous research, each chapter offers something new.' – Spectator 'Neima ranges with impressive confidence across the world'.
Footnotes: Missing a Link?
Noel Coward likened reading footnotes to 'having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.' His standpoint was all very well for a playwright whose sole duty was to entertain, but the tedious task of compiling footnotes is now as essential to the historian as it is for a lawyer to state their authority when arguing a case in court. The very essence of either profession is an ability to say, ‘this is where you can find the proof of my assertion’.
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