Talking schools - Colin Ward

A comprehensive school in the 1970s

A comprehensive school in the 1970s

A compilation of 10 talks given by Colin Ward on education from a libertarian and anarchist perspective.

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Dartington Hall School photo, 1986

Real education: varieties of freedom - David Gribble

Gribble describes several different schools around the world with pupils from all backgrounds, and demonstrates how children do better when they…

Stonewall riot

Not survival only - James Butler

Speech given at an event in South London to celebrate the role of marginalised LGBT people in the history of queer liberation movements as part…

photo of Colin Ward speaking at the International Anarchist Conference in Venice

The Path Not Taken - Colin Ward

Colin Ward contrasts working class self-help with the welfare state. From The Raven #3, 1987.

School children in Hull on strike in 1911 "for shorter hours and no stick"

Children's strikes in 1911 - Dave Marson

Dave Marson's excellent 1973 pamphlet on the little-known mass walkouts of schoolchildren in the UK and Ireland in 1911, the same year that saw…