Nicholas Albery

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Nicholas Albery
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Nicholas Bronson Albery

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St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
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England
EducationSt John's College, Oxford
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RelativesBronson Albery (grandfather)
Tim Albery (brother)
Ivan Albery Powell (nephew)

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Nicholas Bronson Albery[1][2] (28 July 1948 – 3 June 2001)[3][4] was a British 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.

Early life and education

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.

While a student at St John's College, Oxford, Albery became involved with psychedelic and spiritual movements in San Francisco, California, and dropped out of college. After a period in Haight Ashbury, he returned to the UK and joined the anti-university in London.[3]

Life

BIT

Albery 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 Albery, 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, with 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.[5]

Frestonia

Albery was a Minister for the Free State of Frestonia in North Kensington[6] and a Green Party candidate in Notting Hill.

Social innovations' activist

In 1985, out of BIT Information Service, Albery 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 Albery 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 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, he and his wife founded the Natural Death Centre, offering advice on DIY burials.[1]The much-patronised centre provides midwives for the dying, death exercises, recyclable coffins, etc.[7]

Saturday Walkers' Club

Albery founded the self-organising Saturday Walkers' Club in the mid-1990s.[8][9]

Personal life and death

Albery was married to psychotherapist Josefine Speyer. He died age 52 in a car accident, on 3 June 2001.[10] His brother is stage director Tim Albery.[1][3][2]

Works

Incomplete list:

  • Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Beam, Alan; Morrison, Pete (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). London: Revelaction Press. ISBN 978-0-9505244-0-5.
an account of the early years of BIT, by Nicholas Albery, with most names changed to protect the innocent[11]

Further reading

References

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  1. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Nicholas Albery". The Telegraph. 2001-06-13. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
  2. ^ a b Script error: No such module "template wrapper". (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schwarz, Walter (8 June 2001). "Obituary: Nicholas Albery: Irreverent free spirit who put his socially innovative ideas into action". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hopkins, John (8 June 2001). "Nicholas Albery - Obituaries". The Independent. Archived from the original on December 11, 2008.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Alan Dearling's 'Not only but also...' memoirs of Free Festivals" (PDF).
  6. ^ "The Notting Hill Squatters". Vice (magazine)
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Natural Death Centre .org - The Natural Death Centre". www.naturaldeath.org.uk. Naturaldeath.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Time Out Book of Country Walks & Saturday Walkers Club". Walkingclub.org.uk. 2011-03-03.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Natural Death Centre .org - Who we are". Naturaldeath.org.uk. 2001-06-03. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Alan BEAM by [various authors]". Biblio.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Poem for the Day Book One". cansurviving.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Celebrating the conclusion of the Impact of Festivals project". The Impact of Festivals. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2023. Outputs from the project include...

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