On 'Lady Day', March 1943 a group of Christian pacifists took
possession of a vacant farm in Frating, a hamlet on the Essex
Tendring Peninsula. There they established a working community,
inspired by their association with The Adelphi journal, where
D.H.Lawrence, John Middleton Murry, Vera Brittain, Iris Murdoch,
George Orwell and others shared ideas for the future with European
religious radicals such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Martin Buber and
Simone Weil. Frating Hall Farm provided a settlement and livelihood
for individuals and families (as well as a temporary sanctuary for
refugees and prisoners-of-war), and over time became a successful
arable and livestock land-holding of more than 300 acres. Scorned
initially by their neighbours for their anti-war views, the Frating
community won respect not only through their farming achievements,
but having established a touring theatre company and choir, for
bringing new life to the villages and churches around them. The
lost story of Frating Hall Farm is based on the reminiscences of
those who grew up on the farm, together with photographs, letters
and organisational records, never before seen or published. The
book is a kaleidoscopic history of a farm during its eleven-year
occupation, and an enquiry into the passionate religious and
political ideals of the back-to-the-land movement in wartime and
post-war rural England.
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