Raymond Williams

Aug 14, 2024 | versobooks.com | Tom Nairn |Raphael Samuel |Raymond Williams

As the sun rose on the Summer Solstice of 1792, the Druid-Bards gathered in North London, at the summit of Primrose Hill. Led by Edward Williams, a Welsh stonemason and poet better known by his bardic name Iolo Morganwg, they enacted a series of supposedly ancient Celtic rituals — actually recent inventions, products of Iolo’s febrile historical imagination, helped along by his self-medication with hallucinatory quantities of laudanum.

Aug 5, 2024 | versobooks.com | Ludovico Silva |George Scialabba |Raymond Williams |Ellen Meiksins Wood

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Dec 31, 2023 | popularresistance.org | Raymond Williams

Above photo: A protest sign leans against a wall during the Occupy4Prisoners Rally at San Quentin Prison in Marin County, California, on February 20, 2012. Daniel Arauz/ FLICKR. We should be focused on building systems of social support to replace prisons rather than keeping it from collapsing under the weight of its own bloated grotesqueness. I board the transport in an orange jumpsuit, shackled and cuffed at the waist, one of many prisoners in exodus from the Washington State Reformatory.

Jul 27, 2023 | newleftreview.org | Raymond Williams

Of all the changes that the British novel has undergone in the past ten years, the most marked is in the social origins of its leading representatives. The great majority of English writers over 45 who have contributed in a real sense to the national literature followed the typical trajectory of the English professional: birth into a bourgeois family, boarding-school education, then either Oxford or Cambridge.

Jul 26, 2023 | lgbtqnation.com | Raymond Williams |Molly Sprayregen

Terrel Williams knew he wanted to pursue a career that made a difference in the world. So when he became interested in psychology during his junior year of high school, he decided this would be a great field to study. The 22-year-old Decatur, Illinois resident, who identifies as bisexual, currently attends college online and part-time at Colorado Technical University. “When I heard about that, it just kind of suited me,” Williams told LGBTQ Nation.