![]() The first, from Hammersmith to Bloomsbury, takes place so that he can meet a historian named Hammond. We follow Guest as he embarks on two linked journeys. The novel begins with the narrator, the aptly named William Guest, waking from a fitful sleep to find that he has been thrown forward in time to the twenty-second century. In his 1890 utopian novel News From Nowhere, Morris imagined a world after the revolution. Prompted by his growing opposition to British imperialism, Morris embarked in the late 1870s on a journey of Marxist self-education and political organising that would last the rest of his life. He was also a dedicated revolutionary socialist and an incisive critic of late-Victorian capitalism. ![]() ![]() William Morris is probably best known as a poet, artist, and designer, and as one of the founders of the Arts and Craft movement. This post is intended as a follow-on to Tom’s-in it, I turn to a utopian novel that did not appear in his crowd-sourced reading list, but which I’ve been thinking about a lot recently and which offers a compelling vision of the place of education in a more equitable world. Tom White really appreciated last week’s post, ‘Reading for a future’, and its reflections on critiquing and organising against what’s happening now and, at the same time, finding the time and energy to imagine radically different futures. ![]()
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