photographer, writer, sustainability campaigner
Articles from before August 2020 are available on Martin’s archive site…
Colin Ward was always drawn to the kinds of spaces where people could participate in what he referred to as the ‘anarchy of everyday life’. Not strictly ungovernable spaces, but contexts in which self-organising was at least tolerated and where activities that were messy or seen as odd could be enjoyed without being disturbed. These …
This is the first full length biography of Colin Ward, the one hundredth anniversary of whose birth is in August 2024. Ward who died in 2010 lived for almost half a century with the title of Britain’s most famous anarchist, yet he would have been bemused at the idea that he was famous. This biography …
Sometimes a chance experience draws you in to exploring an idea. This happened to me on my first visit to my elder daughter’s new home in Edinburgh. I thought I knew the city well, I lived there briefly in the early 1970s, but she has a wee flat in one of Edinburgh’s ‘colonies’, a distinctive …