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'''Nicholas Bronson Albery'''<ref name="telegraph.co.uk">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1308961/Nicholas-Albery.html</ref><ref name="oxforddnb.com">https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-75949</ref> (28 July 1948 – 3 June 2001)<ref name=GuardianObit>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jun/08/guardianobituaries.books |title=Obituary: Nicholas Albery: Irreverent free spirit who put his socially innovative ideas into action |newspaper=Guardian |date=8 June 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nicholas-albery-755362.html |title=Nicholas Albery - Obituaries, News |newspaper=The Independent |date=8 June 2001}}</ref> social inventor and author, was the instigator or coordinator of a variety of projects aimed at an improvement to society, often known as the [[alternative society]].
'''Nicholas Bronson Albery'''<ref name="telegraph.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1308961/Nicholas-Albery.html|title=Nicholas Albery}}</ref><ref name="oxforddnb.com">{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-75949|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/75949|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}}</ref> (28 July 1948 – 3 June 2001)<ref name=GuardianObit>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jun/08/guardianobituaries.books |title=Obituary: Nicholas Albery: Irreverent free spirit who put his socially innovative ideas into action |newspaper=Guardian |date=8 June 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nicholas-albery-755362.html |title=Nicholas Albery - Obituaries, News |newspaper=The Independent |date=8 June 2001}}</ref> social inventor and author, was the instigator or coordinator of a variety of projects aimed at an improvement to society, often known as the [[alternative society]].


==Biography==
==Biography==
Albery was born at Bricket House, St Albans, Hertfordshire, son of the theatre impresario Sir [[Donald Albery]] (son of Sir [[Bronson Albery]], also a theatre impresario) and his second wife, Cicely, daughter of Army officer Reginald Harvey Henderson Boys. His brother is stage director [[Tim Albery]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jun/08/guardianobituaries.books</ref><ref name="telegraph.co.uk"/><ref name="oxforddnb.com"/> While a student at [[St John's College, Oxford]], Albery became involved with [[psychedelia|psychedelic]] and spiritual movements in [[San Francisco]], dropped out of college and joined the anti-university in London.<ref name=GuardianObit /> He died in a car accident, on 3 June 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/index.php?page=trustees |title=Natural Death Centre .org - Who we are |publisher=Naturaldeath.org.uk |date=2001-06-03 |access-date=2014-07-25}}</ref>
Albery was born at Bricket House, St Albans, Hertfordshire, son of the theatre impresario Sir [[Donald Albery]] (son of Sir [[Bronson Albery]], also a theatre impresario) and his second wife, Cicely, daughter of Army officer Reginald Harvey Henderson Boys. His brother is stage director [[Tim Albery]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jun/08/guardianobituaries.books|title=Obituary: Nicholas Albery|date=8 June 2001}}</ref><ref name="telegraph.co.uk"/><ref name="oxforddnb.com"/> While a student at [[St John's College, Oxford]], Albery became involved with [[psychedelia|psychedelic]] and spiritual movements in [[San Francisco]], dropped out of college and joined the anti-university in London.<ref name=GuardianObit /> He died in a car accident, on 3 June 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/index.php?page=trustees |title=Natural Death Centre .org - Who we are |publisher=Naturaldeath.org.uk |date=2001-06-03 |access-date=2014-07-25}}</ref>


===Underground London in the 1970s===
===Underground London in the 1970s===
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===The "Windsor Festival case"===
===The "Windsor Festival case"===
In 1974, in the aftermath of a violent attack by police on the [[Windsor Free Festival]], Albery, playwright [[Heathcote Williams]] and his partner Diana Senior successfully sued David Holdsworth, the [[Thames Valley]] Chief Constable, for creating a riotous situation in which the police attacked the plaintiffs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enablerpublications.co.uk/pdfs/notonly2.pdf |title=Alan Dearling's "Not only but also..." memoirs of Free Festivals |format=PDF }}</ref>
In 1974, in the aftermath of a violent attack by police on the [[Windsor Free Festival]], Albery, playwright [[Heathcote Williams]] and his partner Diana Senior successfully sued David Holdsworth, the [[Thames Valley]] Chief Constable, for creating a riotous situation in which the police attacked the plaintiffs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enablerpublications.co.uk/pdfs/notonly2.pdf |title=Alan Dearling's "Not only but also..." memoirs of Free Festivals }}</ref>


===Frestonia===
===Frestonia===
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==Miscellaneous==
==Miscellaneous==
Nicholas Albery founded the self-organising Saturday Walkers' Club in the mid-1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walkingclub.org.uk/ |title=''Time Out Book of Country Walks & Saturday Walkers Club'' |publisher=Walkingclub.org.uk |date=2011-03-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor=Albery, Nicholas |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Out-Book-Country-Walks/dp/1904978886 |title=Time Out Book of Country Walks: 52 Walks Within Easy Reach of London: Vol 1 |publisher=[[Time Out (company)|Time Out]] |year=2005 |edition=Revised Updated |isbn=1-904978-88-6 }}</ref>
Nicholas Albery founded the self-organising Saturday Walkers' Club in the mid-1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walkingclub.org.uk/ |title=''Time Out Book of Country Walks & Saturday Walkers Club'' |publisher=Walkingclub.org.uk |date=2011-03-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor=Albery, Nicholas |title=Time Out Book of Country Walks: 52 Walks Within Easy Reach of London: Vol 1 |publisher=[[Time Out (company)|Time Out]] |year=2005 |edition=Revised Updated |isbn=1-904978-88-6 }}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 15:06, 17 July 2021

Nicholas Bronson Albery[1][2] (28 July 1948 – 3 June 2001)[3][4] social inventor and author, was the instigator or coordinator of a variety of projects aimed at an improvement to society, often known as the alternative society.

Biography

Albery was born at Bricket House, St Albans, Hertfordshire, son of the theatre impresario Sir Donald Albery (son of Sir Bronson Albery, also a theatre impresario) and his second wife, Cicely, daughter of Army officer Reginald Harvey Henderson Boys. His brother is stage director Tim Albery.[5][1][2] While a student at St John's College, Oxford, Albery became involved with psychedelic and spiritual movements in San Francisco, dropped out of college and joined the anti-university in London.[3] He died in a car accident, on 3 June 2001.[6]

Underground London in the 1970s

After a period in Haight Ashbury he returned to the UK and became involved with the newly started BIT Information Service, quickly becoming a driving force in the development of wider activities for BIT so that it became one of the first Social centres. Around 1972-73, at the peak of its activities and with the momentum given by Nicholas, BIT Info-Service ran 24 hours a day, with "BIT-workers" coming up at around 10 PM to take the night shift until around 8:00 AM the following day.

The "Windsor Festival case"

In 1974, in the aftermath of a violent attack by police on the Windsor Free Festival, Albery, playwright Heathcote Williams and his partner Diana Senior successfully sued David Holdsworth, the Thames Valley Chief Constable, for creating a riotous situation in which the police attacked the plaintiffs.[7]

Frestonia

Nicholas was a Minister for the Free State of Frestonia in North Kensington[8] and a Green Party candidate in Notting Hill.

Social innovations' activist

In 1985, out of BIT Information Service, he founded the Institute for Social Inventions. From small beginnings (a network of inventors, a quarterly newsletter), the Institute grew into a full-fledged organisation under his leadership: producing an annual compendium, running social inventions workshops and promoting creative solutions around the world. The Institute included Edward de Bono, Anita Roddick and Fay Weldon among its patrons.[3]

The Global Ideas Bank, which he founded in 1995 as an offspring of the Institute for Social Inventions, was first established online, and new features were added: online submission, voting systems, categorisation, a message board, and so on.

Promoting "natural" death

Albery and his wife, the psychotherapist Josefine Speyer, became interested in ecological approaches to death and funerals, and in breaking the taboos that surround death in western societies. In 1991, with Christianne Heal, they founded the Natural Death Centre, offering advice on DIY burials.[9] The much-patronised centre provides midwives for the dying, death exercises, recyclable coffins, etc.[10]

Miscellaneous

Nicholas Albery founded the self-organising Saturday Walkers' Club in the mid-1990s.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Nicholas Albery".
  2. ^ a b "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75949. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b c "Obituary: Nicholas Albery: Irreverent free spirit who put his socially innovative ideas into action". Guardian. 8 June 2001.
  4. ^ "Nicholas Albery - Obituaries, News". The Independent. 8 June 2001.
  5. ^ "Obituary: Nicholas Albery". 8 June 2001.
  6. ^ "Natural Death Centre .org - Who we are". Naturaldeath.org.uk. 2001-06-03. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  7. ^ "Alan Dearling's "Not only but also..." memoirs of Free Festivals" (PDF).
  8. ^ "The Notting Hill Squatters". Vice (magazine)
  9. ^ "Nicholas Albery - Obituary". The Telegraph. 13 June 2001. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Natural Death Centre .org - The Natural Death Centre". Naturaldeath.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  11. ^ "Time Out Book of Country Walks & Saturday Walkers Club". Walkingclub.org.uk. 2011-03-03.
  12. ^ Albery, Nicholas, ed. (2005). Time Out Book of Country Walks: 52 Walks Within Easy Reach of London: Vol 1 (Revised Updated ed.). Time Out. ISBN 1-904978-88-6.

Literature

  • Beam, Alan (1976) "Rehearsal for the year 2000: (drugs, religions, madness, crime, communes, love, visions, festivals and lunar energy) : the rebirth of Albion Free State (known in the Dark Ages as England) : memoirs of a male midwife (1966-1976)" - an account of the early years of BIT with most names changed to protect the innocent.
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