Whiteway Colony
Whiteway Colony is a
Mohandas Gandhi who visited in 1909, as a failed Tolstoyan experiment.[4]
History
The colony was set up in 1898 by a
Quaker journalist, Samuel Veale Bracher, along with other Tolstoyans. Bracher purchased 41 acres (17 ha) along with seeds, tools, materials and provisions. The colonists then burnt the property deeds on the end of a pitchfork in a symbolic rejection of the notion of property. Aylmer Maude led the founding board of trustees for the colony. According to Maude, the story by Leo Tolstoy that inspired the commune settlers to come together and found their colony was "Walk in the Light While There is Light".[5]
The early settlers had utopian socialist ideals, sharing provisions and going back-to-the-land. The founding colonists numbered about eight but over time the community rose to forty with anyone welcome. However Bracher, his family and other founders left the colony soon afterwards as they became increasingly frustrated with the other residents' idleness.[2][6]
Early life in the colony was spartan with some residents using a barn as shelter - piped water did not arrive until 1949 and
general meeting
of its residents.
Over the years residents have included immigrant
Freedom was produced here by Thomas Keell
.
See also
References
- ^ "Whiteway Colony". Diggers and Dreamers. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012.
- ^ a b Alston, Charlotte (10 October 2010). "Tolstoy's Guiding Light". History Today. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
- ^ Edghill, Sarah (1 February 2003). "What a carry-on in the Cotswolds". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
- ISBN 978-81-85002-35-4.
- ^ Aylmer Maude (1910). The Life of Tolstoy. Vol. 2. Dodd, Mead. p. 337.
- ^ Hart, W. C. (1906). Confessions of an anarchist. E. Grant Richards. pp. 79–81.
- ^ Conaty, Pat; Large, Martin, eds. (n.d.). "Commons Sense-Co-operative place making and the capturing of land value for 21st century Garden Cities". Co-operatives UK – via Internet Archive.
Further reading
- Shaw, Nellie (1935). Whiteway: A Colony on the Cotswolds. C.W. Daniel Company.
- Thacker, Joy (1993). Whiteway Colony: The Social History of a Tolstoyan Community. Joy Thacker. ISBN 978-0-9521760-0-8.