Tag: Joseph Gregory

  • Pant Glas: a Meirionnydd commune in 1840

    Pant Glas: a Meirionnydd commune in 1840

    Barmouth was not the only place in Meirionnydd to host utopian settlements in the nineteenth century.  Fanny Talbot’s Ruskinian village there was preceded by a quixotic attempt to set up a socialist commune in a very different part of the region, Abergeirw. In Liverpool in 1839 a splinter group began to break away from Robert…