Sunday evening Huw and I were walking around the harbour at Caen waiting for embarkation on the night ferry to Portsmouth. We had just eaten well (Moules and Frites for me, Pizza boy had, well pizza). Earlier we had witnessed 16 glorious minutes of Rugby with five Welsh tries (pity about the other minutes but […]
I was attempting to explain Durkeim’s concept of Anomie (literally without law) to my daughter yesterday, and recommended her to three novels from France, Russian and Germany that to my mind explore the consequences of the concept better than any sociology text book (I should say that I have a philosophers prejudice against sociology as […]
Aiden Chole has an excellent blog which always provides substance mixed with reflection and insight. Today he considers issues of truth and reconciliation within South Africa and promises further blogs as he embarks on a journey back into the work of the TRC. That journey is taking place in context of a political shift within […]
My illustration is from Swallows and Amazons, one of the classics of children’s literature. I will come to that series with some nostalgia later (and it is going to be one of those contrasts of which I am so fond), but I first want to thank Rob Freeth for bring my attention to this news […]
A scary photograph; this is not a mock up or a reproduction, it’s an actual set of robes donated to the International Slavery Museum . Of course this is from the second Klan formed in 1915 and informed by the film Birth of a Nation. The first, while racist in intent and practice was as […]
“… at the heart of the museum is a rage which will not be quieted while racists walk our streets” Dr David Flemming, Director National Museums of Liverpool I was privileged to be at the opening of the new International Slavery Museum in Liverpool last night, dressed in full black tie regalia! I then spent […]
Well I made it to a year, and over a blog a day on average which is better than I expected. The ritual of the daily blog has been a good one, and at times surprising. A blog you spend days on receives no comments, a throw away remark written and posted before midnight to […]
Sonja & Aiden were the other tutors on this weeks accreditation course in Pretoria and they updated me on a narrative project they are running which has necessitated a lot of innovation additions to our archetype method, which I hope they will add into the Wiki shortly (yes the Wiki is up for practitioners on […]
Just over a week ago on the ActKM forum I was asked a set of questions by Kelly Green about how you get people to share failure. This is a key area for KM; avoidance of failure is a more successful strategy in evolutionary terms than imitation of success and best practice systems (in my […]
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