Anna Neima

My book about Dartington Hall and practical idealism between the wars comes out today. I only wish it were cheaper! – but I hope some can read it through libraries and institutional access. bit.ly/3MFJBN5

The HNS 2024 UK Conference is almost here! Online tickets available. Check HNS2024.com for full line-up & more info #historicalfiction #writingconference #writingcommunity #hns2024 @Writer_DG @BernardCornwell @KateQuinnAuthor @IanJamesFM @HumphreysCC @Anna_Neima

Join us! The Doors of Perception one-day course – its history, philosophy, artistry, etc. – in the Dartington estate where Aldous Huxley was once based. 6th July with Andy Letcher, Anna Neima, Rob Dickins, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes. Details: dartington.org/event/the-door…

An experience I wish could be part of every childhood #gouache #illustration #painting #ruralchildhood #countrychildhood #farmsforcitychildren

My book, 'Histories of Everyday Life', which is a social history of social history in mid-C20 Britain, is published in paperback today with @OUPHistory at a very respectable price 🪇 (Thanks to everyone who has already engaged with it!) global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Perché un'altra guerra? Se anche voi ve lo chiedete, fatevi ispirare dagli utopisti che in varie parti del mondo voltarono le spalle a #militarismo #violenza e #capitalismo «Gli utopisti. Sei esperimenti per una società perfetta» di @Anna_Neima ➡ bit.ly/neima_utopisti

Last chance saloon! There are fewer than 50 copies left of my beloved book, The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians. It’s been through three print runs and these are the very last ones. Available direct from the publisher’s bookshop: donlonbooks.com/products/the-k…

Reading day. Dreaming of a December this tranquil #gouache #illustration

Proofs! Proofs! Proofs!

A privilege this morning to talk on the refugees of Dartington Hall at the @iofestival symposium 'Creative Sanctuary' and also to hear @Anna_Neima's fascinating opening talk on Dartington as a 'Practical Utopia'

EDITOR’S NOTE: Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams - Jean Rhys to you - was born on August 24th 1890. “I've had rather a rum life, but I was thinking the other day, would I go through it all again? I think not.” Portrait by Paul Joyce, 1977.

Berlin! Where we celebrate Jean Rhys’s birthday on the U-bahn!

Child and chickens #contemporarypainting #oilpainting

Edward Hopper started drawing at age 5. His paint box was labelled “Would-be Artist”. At age 9 he made this sketch on the back of his school report card. For the rest of his life, he would retain his fascination with solitary contemplation and the sea

My copy of @idler has arrived with the first of my Dartington Trust residency poems ✨ inspired by my time there, its radical history, Dorothy Elmhirst, & Anna Neima’s book ‘Practical Utopia.’ Thanks to Idler editor @poetclare for giving it a home 🌳🌿❄️

It's publication day for OUR NHS. Thanks to my family, friends, colleagues, and the wonderful team at Yale who supported me over the many years of writing my first book. Available in all good bookshops!

Dreaming #oilpainting #childrensportraits

Everyone is very welcome to attend this Changing Landscapes symposium and book launch at the University of Reading on 15th June. No need to book but do message or email me if you will be coming along so we know about numbers.

Dinner at Highbury Hill #originalart #oilpainting

Konfekt Korner: Attempts at Utopia aren’t always successful but they remind us that alternative ways of living are still possible. Historian and author @Anna_Neima offers her thoughts. bit.ly/3Nw74ny