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Just over a decade before Iolo’s introduction of the Gorsedd in 1792, a Druid organization had already been created, but it was a distinctly different phenomenon: its purposes were social and fraternal rather than cultural. The Ancient Order of Druids, founded by a man named Hurle in 1781 in a pub in London’s Poland Street, was formed to provide mu
... See morePhilip Carr-Gomm • What Do Druids Believe? (What Do We Believe)
New York Times • SoulCycle Without the Bike: Here Comes Peoplehood
22nd June 1921 Dear Lady Battiscombe, I write in the strongest possible terms having received complaints from several Claycombe residents about depraved and ungodly goings-on at your windmill on the evening of 21st June. Two of your guests, dressed in pagan robes and trailing foliage, accompanied by an inebriated young lady wearing a swan costume,
... See moreLucy Atkins • Windmill Hill
In the Soaring Twenties Social Club there are
- Poets
- Designers
- Programmers
- Lawyers (but the good kind)
- Marketers (but the good kind)
- Business owners
- Gamblers
- Essayists
- Musicians
- Storytellers
- Rat Race abandoners
- Idlers
- Bohemians
And every other kind of interesting, weird and unique type of character you would hope to find in a literar... See more
Thomas J Bevan • Join The Soaring Twenties Social Club
It was some time after midnight at New Year’s, when everybody on Naratrany seemed to be crowded into the billiard hall in Finoana village.
Andrea Lee • Red Island House
‘Father Heribert Jone found drunkenness a more serious sin than gluttony. I don’t understand that. A little drunkenness has brought us together, Sancho. It helps friendship. Gluttony surely is a solitary vice. A form of onanism.
Graham Greene • Monsignor Quixote
Peter and William received the consolamentum from an Italian Perfect in Cuneo, a town in south-west Piedmont, which had been a centre for exiled Languedocian Cathars since the middle of the century. Then, around St Martin’s Day (11 November) 1297, Bon Guilhem reappeared in Ax. He informed the Autiers’ extensive network of family and supporters that
... See moreSean Martin • The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages
Modelled along the lines of Freemasonry, it offered mutual support, social gatherings, and a type of ceremonial similar to those of fraternal societies, where a Bible was placed on the lectern at each meeting and discussion of religion was prohibited.