Edge of Time: Books about Communities & Utopias: Order Form

Communes Britannica
Chris Coates
520pp paperback, b&w illus; Diggers and Dreamers Publications
Communes don’t last they say. They’re associated with good-for-nothing idealists or sex and drug crazed maniacs!

This myth-busting tour by a veteran takes you from war-time pacifist land groups right through to hippie communes showing that communal living actually provided a viable way of life for thousands in the latter half of the 20th century.

Check out Chris’s Communes Britannica blog

£25.00 each

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Utopia Britannica
Chris Coates
312pp paperback, b&w illus; Diggers and Dreamers Publications
This archaeology of dreams explores every corner of these islands detailing over 500 utopian experiments in a comprehensive historical gazetteer and telling the stories of our utopian ancestors from early Christian Sects to the foundation of the welfare state ... – less a catalogue of broken dreams, more a rough guide to a utopian future.

£16.50 each

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Cohousing in Britain
Edited by Sarah Bunker, Chris Coates, Martin Field and Jonathan How
paperback, 164 pages, numerous black and white photographs and plans; Diggers and Dreamers Publications
A series of essays examining the history, current practice and potential of cohousing, which combines the benefits of individual homes with those of communal living. It is a bottom up initiative with people coming together to finance, design, build and run their neighbourhood. Private homes sit alongside communal facilities such as a common house for regular communal meals and events, a laundry, guest rooms and even car pools and workshops.

£12.00 each

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Diggers & Dreamers 2008/09
Edited by Sarah Bunker, Chris Coates and Jonathan How
paperback; Diggers and Dreamers Publications
In the late 1980s we started putting together the first edition of our book Diggers & Dreamers - the guide to communal living in Britain. It combined articles with a directory of intentional communities and it’s been coming out in some form every two years ever since.

Now, as we approach our 20th anniversary we’re returning to that original format and taking the opportunity to look back over the last two decades.

Has anything changed? While the mass media still consider communal living to be some oddity from the past, global warming and lower-impact lifestyles have become topics of everyday conversation. Perhaps the experience of communards - who have been quietly getting on with their lives in communal and co-housing groups, eco-villages and low-impact communities - will now become relevant in the wider world.

Get Diggers & Dreamers 08/09 and decide for yourself.

£14.50 each

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The Patchwork History of a Community Growing Up (two copies left)
Written by members and friends of Old Hall, past and present. General Editor: Brenda Gamlin.
120pp paperback; b&w illustrations and photos; Old Hall Community
In 1974, the seven founding members of Old Hall Community paid £75,000 for an old friary which they then divided into 14 ‘units’. This delightful little book consists of 120 pages of community anecdotes, poems, photos, journal extracts, reminiscences, archival accounting pages, newspaper ads, and drawings.

£5.00 each

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