1st Edition
Heavens Below Utopian Experiments in England, 1560-1960
By W.H.G. Armytage
Copyright 1961
470 Pages
by
Routledge
470 Pages
by
Routledge
480 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
Phase 1 Sect to Socialism 1560–1800; Chapter 1 Filaments of Light; Chapter 2 Diggers; Chapter 3 Quakers; Chapter 4 The Philadelphians; Chapter 5 Camisards; Chapter 6 Moravians; Chapter 7 Revelations and Revolution; Phase 2 The Owenite Apocalypse; Chapter 8 The Genesis of the Parallelogram; Chapter 9 Experiments at Brighton; Chapter 10 Spa Fields; Chapter 11 Orbiston; Chapter 12 Ralahine; Chapter 13 William Maclure and New Harmony; Chapter 14 The Religion of Community; Chapter 15 Manea Fen and Tytherly; Phase 3 The Heyday of Experiment; Chapter 16 Ham Common and the Transcendentalists; Chapter 17 Hugh Doherty and the Phalanstery; Chapter 18 The Hanwell Communitorium; Chapter 19 John Minter Morgan's Schemes; Chapter 20 The Chartist Land Colonies; Chapter 21 From Toad Lane to Pottersville; Chapter 22 Liverpool: Gateway to Zion; Chapter 23 Esoteric Communities in Victorian England; Phase 4 The Rustic Vision; Chapter 24 The St. George's Guild; Chapter 25 Anarchist Colonies;
Biography
W. H. G. Armytage Professor of Education, University of Sheffield
