by stuart | Oct 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
In the tenth and final part of this series of blogs on Ruskin & the Communists, Stuart Eagles outlines what happened to the Guild’s Totley estate after Riley’s departure, when it was successively under the management of David Downs and rented by George Pearson....
by stuart | Oct 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
In the ninth part of this series of blog posts on Ruskin & the Communists, Stuart Eagles examines in detail the history of the Totley experiment under William Harrison Riley and David Downs between early 1878 and the summer of 1880… RUSKIN & THE COMMUNISTS...
by stuart | Oct 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
We read William Harrison Riley’s account of his visit to Ruskin at Brantwood in January 1879 in Part 7 of this series. We have seen how Riley and Ruskin forged an uneasy friendship by means of correspondence. Scholarly treatment of Riley, slender as it is, tends to be...
by stuart | Sep 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
We have seen how the dreams of the original group of communists were tried at Totley and how they faltered. Before they finally ended in disappointment and recrimination, Ruskin placed the experiment in the hands of a notable working-class socialist and republican,...
by stuart | Jun 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
Why did the collaboration in Totley between Ruskin and the original group of Sheffield Communists end in failure? In the sixth post of his new blog series, Stuart Eagles also follows the lives of some of the secularist radicals after their dreams of establishing a...
by stuart | Jun 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
In the fifth part of this new blog series, Stuart Eagles outlines the history of the Totley experiment during its first phase which involved the original group of Sheffield communists drawn from the Hall of Science. He seeks out evidence of who did what on the 13...
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