Nicholas Albery

Nicholas Albery (born July 28 1948; died June 3 2001)^[1][2] social inventor and author, was the founder or leader of various projects related to the improvement of society, often known as the Alternative Society.

While a student at St John's College, Oxford, he became involved with psychedelic and spiritual movements in San Francisco, dropped out of college and joined the anti-university in London.^[1] After a period in Haight Ashbury he returned to the UK and 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 a Social centre.

In the aftermath of a violent attack by police on the Windsor Free Festival in 1974 - Nick, 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.^[3]

Nicholas was a Minister for the Free State of Frestonia in North Kensington and a Green Party candidate in Notting Hill.

The Global Ideas Bank - 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.

Nicholas founded the self-organising Saturday Walkers' Club in the mid-1990s.^[4][5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Obituary: Nicholas Albery: Irreverent free spirit who put his socially innovative ideas into action". Guardian. 8 June 2001. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2001/jun/08/guardianobituaries.books. 
2. ^ "Nicholas Albery - Obituaries, News". The Independent. 8 June 2001. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nicholas-albery-755362.html. 
3. ^ "Alan Dearling's "Not only but also..." memoirs of Free Festivals" (PDF). http://www.enablerpublications.co.uk/pdfs/notonly2.pdf. 
4. ^ "Time Out Book of Country Walks & Saturday Walkers Club". Walkingclub.org.uk. 2011-03-03. http://www.walkingclub.org.uk/. 
5. ^ 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 1904978886. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Out-Book-Country-Walks/dp/1904978886. 

External links

• The Global Ideas Bank
• Nicholas Albery Foundation
• Nicholas Albery page, Radical Consultation

Literature

• Beam, Alan (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)" - an account of the early years of BIT with most names changed to protect the innocent.

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