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Jung, the Quakers and Hitler: Irene Pickard (1891–1982) – reflections on researching her archive and other musings

Friday, 26 August 2022

Tumbling into war: 1914 and all that

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Remember the butterfly flapping its wings in a jungle clearing? The unpredictability of chaos where overwhelmingly the turbulence caused by ...
Friday, 19 August 2022

Warp and Weft: an anthological approach to history

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Adjective. anthological (not generally comparable, comparative more anthological, superlative most anthological): of or pertaining to anthol...
Friday, 1 July 2022

A Reasonable Faith: Francis Frith, William Pollard & William Turner

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    When faced with the challenge of writing about Irene Pickard's archive – at first sight a seemingly disparate collection of Jungian ...
Friday, 24 June 2022

Bergson, Jung and the creativity of disruption

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Exploring an archive will always take you on journeys that you had not anticipated. I first came across reference to Bergson in one document...
Saturday, 18 June 2022

William Penn

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History is always a dialogue between the past and the present. The down grading of William Penn in the esteem of Quakers by removing his na...
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Saturday, 11 June 2022

Wotan

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In 1936 Jung was trying to frame his understating of what was happening only about 30km away from his home in Zürich, over the border in Ger...
Friday, 27 May 2022

Refuge, Relief, and Reconciliation

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I was asked recently what defined Quaker responses to war. The assumption was that it would be conscientious objection, but actually Quakers...
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