Many of our talks mention papers and books for further reading, relevant events, or organisations that work in related area or are a source of further information. Links are listed in this section under the talk they refer to. Additions can be made at any time.
If anyone would like to post a link before or after a talk please send it, and a few explanatory lines – to one of the website editors:
Caroline Boyd ([email protected]) Jane Maxim ([email protected]) or Janey King ([email protected])
Links and reading from talks so far
44. Sue Pine: Do Fairies Exist? In the light of quantum physics, is it time to revisit this ancient idea?
Fairies:
Good Fairies, Bad Fairies by Brian Froude (and many other good books by Brian Froude)
A Field Guide to the Little People by Nancy Arrowsmith and George Moorse (A who’s who of the Fairy realms)
The Middle Kingdom by Dermot MacManus ( classic book, hard to get hold of , but worth the effort)
Earth Energies:
Working with Earth Energies by David Furlong. (A very good introduction, with a big chapter about fairies, devas etc.)
The Definitive Wee Book on Dowsing by Hamish Miller (Tiny but well worth it)
Findhorn:
Encounters with Nature Spirits by Ogilvie Crombie
The Magic of Findhorn by Paul Hawken
The Cottingley Fairies:
The Coming of the fairies By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the book caused a sensation at the time)
The Secret of the Cottingley Fairies by F R Maher (a modern re-assessment)
Also recommended by attendees:
Our Spiritual Companions by Adam Bittleston
43. Fiona Gilmore, Sarah Whitelock, Alison Andrews – Scottish Power Renewables
Useful Websites:
Take action letter from SEAS: includes emails for recipients
42. Amy Rayner: An alternative Approach to Gardening
Useful Websites:
Plantlife.org.uk (hosts The Good Verge Guide)
Inspiring gardens:
Great Dixter, East Sussex.
By the Crossways, Kelsale. Open for NGS.
Favourite Books:
Wilding by Isabella Tree
The Jungle Garden by Dave Goulson
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
41. Kerstin Davey and Jane Maxim: Walking for Mind and Body
Books Inspired by Walking
A short Walk in the Hindu Kush – Eric Newby
Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet -Colin Thubron (being his pilgrimage while mourning his mother death, to the Hindu and Buddhist holy mountain of Kailash—whose peak represents the most sacred place on Earth to roughly a quarter the global population)
Wanderlust – Rebecca Solnit (almost philosophy)
Mirrors of the Unseen – Jason Elliot – journeys in Iran
The Old Ways – a journey on Foot – Robert MacFarlane
The Wild Places and Landmarks – Robert MacFarlane
As I walked Out One Midsummer Morning – Laurie Lee
Seven Years in Tibet – Hendrich Harrer
The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage – Paulo Coelho
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes – R L Stevenson
In Ethiopia with a Mule – Dervla Murphy
East Anglia and more…
Wildwood, Waterlog – Roger Deakin
The Rings of Saturn – W. G. Sebald
Additions after our conversation
The Salt Path – Raynor Winn
The Marches – Rory Stewart
The Places Inbetween – Rory Stewart
Friendship and walking – Gaby Hinsliff in the Guardian
A bike trip but also recommended
Dog on Tour – Maggie Scorer
34. Lizzi Thistlethwayte and Vanessa Raison: Poetry: making sense of the everyday muddle
Copies of ‘No Map’ (£5) and ‘Angels and Other Diptera’ (£10) are available directly from Lizzi – please email her on [email protected]
Copies of ‘Open and Close’ (£3) are available from Vanessa – please email her on [email protected]
21. Fiona Duby: Abortion: the debate and the reality
This report was published just after Fiona’s talk; she recommends it. UK All-Party Parliamentary Group (2018) ‘Who Decides? We Trust Women’. APPG, March 2018. Download from: http://www.appg-popdevrh.org.uk/APPG 2018 AW.PDF
18. Annabel Chamberlain: Gardening in the Mind
Russell Page (1962) The Education of a Gardener, Harper Collins; Christopher Lloyd (1970) The Well Tempered Garden, Harper Collins.
14. Sarah Ladbury: The Syrian Refugee Crisis – Lessons from Turkey?
For a comprehensive analysis of refugee issues in Turkey Sarah recommends the work of Kemal Kirisci including: Ferris, Elizabeth and Kirisci, Kemal (2016) The Consequences of Chaos and the Failure to Protect. Brookings Institute Press
13. Rebecca Crowley: A Sense of the Sacred
Recommended books for the Goddess Mysteries:
The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (fiction)
Paganism by Vivienne Crowley
Daughter of the Goddess by Naomi Ozaniec
12. Jane Maxim: The Alde and Ore Estuary – Nature or Nurture?
To read more about the Alde & Ore Estuary Partnership and the Estuary plan, go to:
http://aoep.co.uk/
Nick Robinson explains the estuary plight in a short video:
http://aoep.co.uk/index.php/sos-estuary-trailer/
And for those intrigued by the idea of a shingle engine, click on:
http://www.greensuffolk.org/assets/Greenest-County/Water–Coast/Suffolk-Coast-Forum/SlaughdenShingleEngineSuffolkCFFeb2016.pdf
10. Sarah Zins: Suffolk’s Hidden Needs
The Suffolk ‘Hidden Needs’ report (2011-2016) can be found at: http://suffolkcf.org.uk/2016/09/launch-of-hidden-needs-2016
9. Janey King: The Age of Antarctic Heroism
There are some wonderful books on Antarctica – my favourites are literary classics as well as histories of exploration. The essential read is The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry Garrard’s account of going south with Scott. Frank Worsley’s Shackleton’s Boat Journey tells the inside story of the incredible trip from Elephant Island to South Georgia in the James Caird, and Ernest Shackleton’s own South is the great man’s version of his south polar adventures. For a modern-day and highly personal account of life on the ice, there is no better book than Sara Wheeler’s Terra Incognita.
On a less elevated note, my own blog southbyeight.wordpress.com is the story of our group’s expedition to South Georgia in Shackleton’s footsteps – go to the bottom first for a chronological read. And, the fruit of a six-week stay down in Antarctica on their research base with the members of the Bulgaria Antarctic Expedition, there is my polar novel Sun at Midnight (under my author name: Rosie Thomas)
8. Janine Edge: Wise Ways to Handle Conflict
For those who want to know more about the theory of conflict resolution, Janine recommends:
Krznaric, Roman (2014) Empathy: why it matters and how to get it. Penguin Random House
Baron-Cohen, Simon (2011) Zero Degrees of Empathy: A new theory of human cruelty and kindness, Penguin
7. Sarah Zins: The Citizen’s Advice Bureaux
See the attached link in you would like to know about volunteering with the CAB: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/support-us/volunteering/
6. Blair Priday: The Work of the Ethiopian Heritage Fund
The past and continuing work of the fund can be found at: www.ethiopianheritagefund.org/
4. Sarah Ladbury: Radicalisation
There is a vast literature on radicalisation. The two articles below focus specifically on how women and girls become involved in such groups, and how they are treated. To find these articles on the internet just copy the title into google:
Ladbury, S. (2015) ‘Women and Extremism: the Association of Women and Girls with Jihadi Groups and Implications for Programming.’ Independent research report for DFID.
Ladbury, S. et al (2016) ‘Jihadi Groups and State Building: the Case of Boko Haram in Nigeria.’ Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 5(1): 16
2. Janey King: ‘Of course what I really want to do is WRITE’
The Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook is revised annually, and it remains the best practical guide to how to get your work published. A good companion volume would be Research for Writers by Ann Hoffman. Its section on using the internet for research is particularly good.
Nowadays there are probably almost as many routes to market as there are published books, but a relative newcomer is crowdfunding. Unbound.com is the most established company, and a browse of their website is rewarding and inspiring.
Writers’ groups and creative writing courses are two a penny, and sadly some of them are worth just about that. For a week’s intensive tuition, guided by real writers who know what they are talking about, Arvon is still the best investment. See arvon.org for information.
1. Jane Maxim: The Ageing Brain – is it true we either ‘use it or lose it?’
For a recent Lancet report on modifiable risk factors in dementia, click on the link below and then put in ‘Lancet Commission dementia’. You will find a study which finds that a third of cases may be preventable. <http://www.alzheimers.org.uk>
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