society – Regular Marvels

A painful edge to oral history

The Light Ships is proving to be a revelation. An exploration of the church’s place in a community’s artistic life,

‘Pete Seeger’s great work was not just singing the songs, but getting everybody else to sing them—getting his audience, us,

Philosophy Bites is a podcast that has been produced since 2007 by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. In the spirit

Originally posted on Parliament of Dreams:
Jean, flautist with Fred’s Folks Ceilidh Band Art and wellbeing in old age [This is the…

It’s an old-fashioned ladies hairdressers’, on a down-at-heel high road in the West Midlands. The owner – let’s call her

‘Hope today is a contraband passed from hand to hand and from story to story.’ John Berger, Bento’s Sketchbook, 2011

Manuel Castells‘ account of the networks of outrage and hope that have emerged since the economic collapse of 2008 is

One way in which we make sense of our experience is by finding patterns in it—connections, coincidences, repetitions. Whether the

I got an email from a Dutch friend, partly in response to my post about waiting for feedback. Margreet wrote

In 2009 and 2010, I worked with the Platform for Intercultural Europe on a series of meetings, exchanges and conversations