ABSTRACT

First published in 2006. This book tells a number of plain tales of those who tried to save the English behind their collective backs under the term of Utopian Experiments in England between 1560 and 1960. It looks at the influences of the church to community experiments and groups, the ideas of Robert Owen, William Allen, George Mudie, Abraham Combe and more.

part I|73 pages

Sect to Socialism 1560–1800

chapter 1|16 pages

Filaments of Light

chapter 2|7 pages

Diggers

chapter 3|6 pages

Quakers

chapter 4|7 pages

The Philadelphians

chapter 5|8 pages

Camisards

chapter 6|11 pages

Moravians

chapter 7|16 pages

Revelations and Revolution

part II|93 pages

The Owenite Apocalypse

chapter 1|10 pages

The Genesis of the Parallelogram

chapter 2|5 pages

Experiments at Brighton

chapter 3|4 pages

Spa Fields

chapter 4|9 pages

Orbiston

chapter 5|8 pages

Ralahine

chapter 6|17 pages

William Maclure and New Harmony

chapter 7|15 pages

The Religion of Community

chapter 8|23 pages

Manea Fen and Tytherly

part III|118 pages

The Heyday of Experiment

chapter 1|13 pages

Ham Common and the Transcendentalists

chapter 2|12 pages

Hugh Doherty and the Phalanstery

chapter 3|13 pages

The Hanwell Communitorium

chapter 4|15 pages

John Minter Morgan's Schemes

chapter 5|14 pages

The Chartist Land Colonies

chapter 6|21 pages

From Toad Lane to Pottersville

chapter 7|13 pages

Liverpool: Gateway to Zion

chapter 8|15 pages

Esoteric Communities in Victorian England

part IV|154 pages

The Rustic Vision

chapter 1|16 pages

The St. George's Guild

chapter 2|11 pages

Anarchist Colonies

chapter 3|11 pages

Evangelism and Economics

chapter 4|15 pages

The Fellowship of the New Life

chapter 5|17 pages

The Tolstoyan Communities

chapter 6|11 pages

Cosme Colony 1893–98

chapter 7|15 pages

From Rurisville to Garden City 1898–1918

chapter 8|17 pages

From Rananim to Thelnetham

chapter 9|18 pages

Expedients and Experiments 1919–60

chapter 10|10 pages

The New Towns

chapter 11|11 pages

Epilogue