Diggers and Dreamers

Diggers and Dreamers is a group that promotes intentional communities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

History
Diggers and Dreamers started out as a book based directory, first published in 1989 as a resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities and communal living in the UK. The project was an offshoot of the Communes Network, a loose organisation that was established at a meeting on 15–16 February 1975 organised by the Communes Movement, which itself was started in 1968 by Selene Community, and which had achieved a distribution of 3000 copies of its journal, Communes: Journal of the Communes Movement, in March 1971.

The Guide to Communal Living (and from 1999 accompanying website) focusses on all aspects of communal living. Alongside the journal there is a directory of communal groups. More recently Diggers and Dreamers have published a number of book reviews, conference presentations and books other than the Guide to Communal Living.

Themes
Over the years the publication has covered a wide variety of topics connected with communal living and has featured articles by both those living communally and those studying it. The themes covered by articles include:


 * Decision-making
 * Manual labour
 * Childcare
 * Income pooling
 * Developmental communalism
 * Developing Cohousing in the UK
 * Why Feminism needs Utopianism
 * Voluntary Simplicity
 * Low Impact Development
 * Degrowth
 * The value of art in community
 * Research and development for Utopia