Reviving co-operative learning and culture. Putting Principle 5 into practice: www.principle5.coop/about-us
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Just read this excellent book. Catherine Nixey writes well as you would expect from a Cambridge classicist turned journalist. 'Heresy' is to be recommended to those who take an interest in history and ecclesiastical matters. #history

The Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) 1920.
CWS Lecturer F. C. Crowther at public meeting in South Wales.
Page 179 'Building Co-operation' Wilson, Webster, Vorberg-Rugh

Principle 5 of the Co-operative Movement is Education, Training and Information. We are a community of co-operators seeking a better understanding of the possibilities of co-operation. www.principle5.coop/about-us

Every Movement needs a storyteller or two. George Jacob Holyoake was an advocate of Co-operation and Secularism. One of the many brave people who helped in the transition from the dark ages to build a better world.

The United Nations has declared 2025 International Year of Co-operatives. See this article which appeared in Co-op News
www.thenews.coop/internationa... by Anca Voinea www.thenews.coop

I've always thought Glastonbury Abbey a photogenic place.
I took this picture in the summer of 1976

Now long derelict, The Old Harrow on Broad Street, Sheffield

In 1911, The Co-operative Movement built a permanent headquarters for the Co-operative Union (Co-operatives UK) dedicated to the memory of George Jacob Holyoake. Holyoake House in Manchester. www.uk.coop

Wooley Mr Holyoake #co-op

George Jacob Holyoake (13 April 1817 – 22 January 1906)
Father of the Secularist Movement (Inventor of the word Secularist). Writer and advocate of the Co-operative Movement. #co-op

My (voluntary) job, looking after a library and archive serving people who are interested in co-operatives. www.principle5.coop Sheffield. The Yorkshire Co-operative Resource Centre is a not for profit co-operative.