Friday, 11 March 2022

Wars escalate to the level of violence necessary to obtain victory

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Having stayed in Lviv for a month and given a couple of lectures at the university, I feel the awfulness of this war in a more personal way....
Friday, 25 February 2022

Finding the narrative line

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Irene Pickard (née Speller),  started her adult life as a personal secretary, one of the few occupations open to 'respectable' young...
Friday, 18 February 2022

The War in its Effects upon Women by H M Swanwick, August 1916

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Three themes emerged from researching Irene Pickard's archive: Quakerism, Jung and peace-work. If it was not for the peace-work the Pick...
Friday, 11 February 2022

Jung’s five stages of psycho-cultural development

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Being an Eva Koch Scholar at Woodbrooke was an utter indulgence in being able to completely immerse oneself in a chosen subject: unlimited a...
Friday, 4 February 2022

Meeting the Messiah: 4 – Where am I now?

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 The foundational story of Christianity – the story of Jesus, his ministry and death, and of how he inspired his followers to take the Gospe...
Saturday, 29 January 2022

Fountains of ideas: being an Eva Koch Scholar

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David Lockyer writes about his experience of six weeks in residence as an Eva Koch Scholar at Woodbrooke The m...
Friday, 28 January 2022

Meeting the Messiah: 3 – it's all in the mind

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In researching Irene Pickard's archive, ignoring the foundational myth of Christianity was simply not an option. It was far to importan...