Finding Lights in a Dark Age – Discussion Forum

Apologies for my slow turnover of blog posts here, which is likely to be ongoing. I’d planned to do a blog cycle about my book Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft, published by Chelsea Green last year, but somehow I’ve run out of steam for it and the moment seems to have passed. Instead, I’ve provided below one-sentence summaries of each chapter in the book (bear in mind that I incline to writing very long sentences, as those who edit my writing will ruefully attest). I hope my summaries won’t be taken too seriously – books defy summary, and I could have written entirely different ones. The main point of them is to act as a kind of invitation into conversation. If those who’ve read the book want to raise anything about what I say in it, or the wider implications, this is the place – feel free to use the comments section below, and I’ll do my best to respond. Obviously, the summaries below are no substitute for reading the actual book, which you should absolutely…