Nancy spent her early years at Shrub Family in Norfolk. In this podcast she tells us just how inspiring it was to grow up in the alternative East Anglian culture of the 1970s and 80s.

Nancy's Substack
https://nancythompson731.substack.com/p/making-sense-of-my-weird-upbringing

Shrub Family
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/shrub-family

Albion Fairs
https://fairsarchive.wordpress.com

Global Village Trucking Company (BBC documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SNrBey7yQI

Spaceheads:
https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/

As Lifespan Community celebrates its half centenary we bring you an interview with Freer Spreckley who was one of the founders back in 1974. He and Hylda Sims were both alumni of the famous Summerhill School and originally saw Lifespan as being a kind of lifelong version of Summerhill. Freer describes the early years of that isolated intentional community based in terraced houses, located high in the Yorkshire Moors.

Summerhill School
https://www.summerhillschool.co.uk

Lifespan Community Collective
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/lifespan-community-collective

Commune on the Moors: The Story of Lifespan
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/shop/commune-on-the-moors

Spaceheads:
https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/

Cath Muller has had a long history in co-operativism having had a key role in the Radical Routes Network as well as being a member of Cornerstone Housing Co-op in Leeds. A few years ago she travelled (over-sea) to North America and was particularly inspired by a visit to Twin Oaks Community in Virginia. Now she's working with others to create "A Commune in the North" with the idea of bring about something on the same scale as Twin Oaks in the UK. And she doesn't want there to be just one commune... she wants there to be many of them!

Radical Routes
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/communities/radical-routes-members
http://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/

Cornerstone Housing Co-operative
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/cornerstone-housing-co-operative

A Commune in the North
https://diggersanddreamers.org.uk/community/a-commune-in-the-north
https://www.acommuneinthenorth.org.uk/

Twin Oaks Community
https://www.twinoaks.org

Spaceheads:
https://spaceheads.co.uk/recordings/a-new-world-in-our-hearts/