Near Hemel Hempstead

The visitor can, like those visiting the KK's Educational Exhibition there in 1929, peer at the costumes, totems, banners, heraldic devices, and photographs of rituals and marches of Britain's most colourful and eccentric social movement, now mostly archived at the Museum of London. Hargra...

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Published in:New formations 2016-03, Vol.88 (88), p.143-145
Main Author: Armstrong, Tim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Anon (600-1100) (Beowulf and Judith)
British & Irish literature
Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)
Crowley, Aleister
English literature
Exhibitions
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic (1901-1935)
Handicraft
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
Social movements
Wells, H G (1866-1946)
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Summary:The visitor can, like those visiting the KK's Educational Exhibition there in 1929, peer at the costumes, totems, banners, heraldic devices, and photographs of rituals and marches of Britain's most colourful and eccentric social movement, now mostly archived at the Museum of London. Hargrave was curiously bookish for a cult leader who stressed outdoor life and 'doing': he published a number of reasonably successful novels including the 877-page Summer Time Ends (1935), planned a movie based on Beowulf, as well as his outpouring of designs, leaflets, plans and guides to his philosophy, all from a quiet back lane near Hemel Hempstead. The exhibition assembles what is inevitably a graphic version of the movement, stressing the visual appeal of its brightly-coloured sigils, staves, fabrics, and tents; the embossed cover of the Kin Psalter, the Tid Sang, and other great books; the circular pattern of the Althing.
ISSN:0950-2378
1741-0789
DOI:10.3898/NEWF.88.REV01.2016