THE IDLER NO.43 TABLE OF CONTENTS

n o t e s o n c o n t r i b u t o r s l i s t o f i l l u s t r a t i o n s t o m h o d g k i n s o n An Idler’s Diary

Comics t o n y h u s b a n d Neville j o a n n a w a l s h A Short History of Rural Utopias p e t e l o v e d a y Trials of the Green Man

Conversations d a v i d h o c k n e y i a n b o n e & r a y r o u g h l e r - j o n e s ix x

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Essays p a u l k i n g s n o r t h Progress and the Land

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s i m o n f a i r l i e Is Urbanization a Temporary Phenomenon? 83 p a t c o n a t y Bring Back the Guilds 93 j a m e s p a r k e r Me and My Rosary 115 j o h n n i c h o l s o n Arcadia and Albion 121 g r a h a m b u r n e t t A Pomaceous Paradise 137 g a v i n k n i g h t A Defence of the Dacha 149