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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      April 2022
      April 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009049269
      9781316517970
      9781009048729
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009049269
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 322 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.468kg, 322 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth Century British History, British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Modern British Histories
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    Subjects:
    Twentieth Century British History, British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Modern British Histories
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    Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, set up in Devon in 1925 by a fabulously wealthy American heiress, Dorothy Elmhirst (née Whitney), and her Yorkshire-born husband, Leonard. It quickly achieved international fame with its progressive school, craft production and wide-ranging artistic endeavours. Dartington was a residential community of students, teachers, farmers, artists and craftsmen committed to revivifying life in the countryside. It was also a socio-cultural laboratory, where many of the most brilliant interwar minds came to test out their ideas about art, society, spirituality and rural regeneration. To this day, Dartington Hall remains a symbol of countercultural experimentation and a centre for arts, ecology and social justice. Practical Utopia presents a compelling portrait of a group of people trying to live out their ideals, set within an international framework, and demonstrates Dartington's tangled affinities with other unity-seeking projects across Britain and in India and America.

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    ‘Neima’s book will serve as stimulating and indeed essential reading for anyone wishing to delve deeply into the Dartington dream.’

    Simon Timms Source: The Devon Historian

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