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19-469: Since the 1990s, the paper edition of the column has been illustrated by Clifford Harper . The column is credited with the first use in print of the term " Jizz ", in a piece by Thomas Coward of 6 December 1921, subsequently included in his 1922 book "Bird Haunts and Nature Memories". He attributed it to "a west-coast Irishman". A number of books, compiling past columns, have been published, including: This United Kingdom newspaper–related article

38-553: A strong association with Freedom Press from 1969 up to 2005 as well as many other anarchist groups, publications and individuals. Harper remains an engaged anarchist activist, having been involved with organising the UK's annual Anarchist Bookfair , re-designing Freedom newspaper in 2005, producing books, pamphlets, posters, book covers, postcards and drawings for, and supporting, anarchists everywhere. His drawings have been used and reproduced by anarchists and others in nearly every country of

57-460: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Clifford Harper Clifford Harper (born 13 July 1949 in Chiswick , West London) is a worker, illustrator, and militant anarchist . He wrote Anarchy: A Graphic Guide in 1987. He is a long-term contributor to The Guardian newspaper and many other publications. Clifford Harper is a worker, illustrator and militant anarchist. He

76-571: Is an assertion of human dignity and responsibility. It is not a programme for political change but an act of social self-determination". Colin Ward in his main theoretical publication Anarchy in Action (1973) in a chapter called "Schools No Longer" "discusses the genealogy of education and schooling, in particular examining the writings of Everett Reimer and Ivan Illich , and the beliefs of anarchist educator Paul Goodman . Many of Colin’s writings in

95-520: Is based upon the principle that, as Ward put it, "in small face-to-face groups, the bureaucratising and hierarchical tendencies inherent in organisations have least opportunity to develop". Anarchism for Ward is "a description of a mode of human organization, rooted in the experience of everyday life, which operates side by side with, and in spite of, the dominant authoritarian trends of our society". In contrast to many anarchist philosophers and practitioners, Ward holds that "anarchism in all its guises

114-653: The Country Diary column and between 1999 and 2002, he illustrated the Last Word column written by philosopher AC Grayling . Anarchy: A Graphic Guide , which Harper wrote and illustrated, was published by Camden Press in 1987. It begins: "Like all really good ideas, Anarchy is pretty simple when you get down to it - Human beings are at their very best when they are living free of authority, deciding things among themselves rather than being ordered about. That's what 'Anarchy' means - 'Without Government'. Harper had

133-464: The 1970s, in particular Streetwork: The Exploding School (1973, with Anthony Fyson), focused on learning practices and spaces outside of the school building. In introducing Streetwork , Ward writes, "[this] is a book about ideas: ideas of the environment as the educational resource, ideas of the enquiring school, the school without walls...”. In the same year, Ward contributed to Education Without Schools (edited by Peter Buckman) discussing 'the role of

152-881: The Education Officer for the Town and Country Planning Association . He published widely on education, architecture and town planning. His most influential book was The Child in the City (1978), about children's street culture . From 1995 to 1996, Ward was Centennial Professor of Housing and Social Policy at the London School of Economics . In 2001, Ward was made an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University . Ward's philosophy aimed at removing authoritarian forms of social organisation and replacing them with self-managed , non-hierarchical forms. This

171-738: The River Thames near Richmond, Surrey , in 1969. In 1971, he took part in the All London Squatters organization, squatting in Camden , North London , then Stepney Green , East London , and Camberwell in South East London , while being very active in anarchist circles. In 1974, he settled in Camberwell , where he has lived ever since. Harper has long-term health issues and suffered a heart attack in 2006. From

190-433: The early 1970s onwards, Harper became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals. He self-published his own Class War Comix and illustrated for among others Undercurrents magazine and books on Stuart Christie 's Cienfuegos Press. Heavily influenced by George Grosz , Félix Vallotton , Fernand Léger , Eric Gill and in particular

209-532: The more famous of the two, Colin Ward explores the creativity and uniqueness of children and how they cultivate 'the art of making the city work'. He argued that through play, appropriation and imagination, children can counter adult-based intentions and interpretations of the built environment. His later text, The Child in the Country, inspired a number of social scientists, notably geographer Chris Philo (1992), to call for more attention to be paid to young people as

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228-404: The narrative woodcuts of Frans Masereel , Harper's style evolved in the 1980s in a bolder, expressionist direction, with much of his later work resembling woodcut, although he mainly works in pen and ink, and watercolour. Harper has published work in all major UK newspapers. He is a regular and longterm contributor to The Guardian newspaper. Since 1996, he has supplied illustrations for

247-405: The state'. He argued that "one significant role of the state in the national education systems of the world is to perpetuate social and economic injustice"". In The Child in the City (1978), and later The Child in the Country (1988), Ward "examined the everyday spaces of young people’s lives and how they can negotiate and re-articulate the various environments they inhabit. In his earlier text,

266-649: The trial he was transferred to Orkney. After being demobbed in 1946 he returned to working for Sidney Caulfield and began contributing to Freedom Press . In 1947 he began editing the anarchist newspaper Freedom – successor to War Commentary . He remained an editor of Freedom until 1960. He was the founder and editor of the monthly anarchist journal Anarchy from 1961 to 1970. Until 1961, Ward worked as an architect's assistant. In 1964 undertook teacher training at Garnett College where he met his future wife, Harriet Unwin, and he subsequently began teaching at Wandsworth Technical College . In 1971, he became

285-488: The world. Stamps: Designs for anarchist postage stamps was published by Rebel Press in 1997, with an essay by Colin Ward . It contained 16 portraits of figures such as Alexander Berkman , Emma Goldman , Louise Michel and Herbert Read . Harper also wrote an afterword. Graphic Anarchy , an exhibition of his work, was held in 2003 at the Newsroom Gallery, London. In March 2020, a plaque made by Harper

304-498: Was born in Wanstead , Essex , to Arnold and Ruby Ward ( née  West ). Arnold was a teacher and Ruby a clerical worker. His parents were active Labour Party supporters. Ward attended Ilford County High School , leaving school aged 15. After leaving school he worked as an assistant to a builder, then for West Ham Council, before working as a draughtsman at Sidney Caulfield's architectural practice. In 1942, aged 18, Ward

323-578: Was born in Chiswick, West London – at that time within Middlesex – on 13 July 1949. His father was a postman and his mother a cook. Expelled from school at 13 and placed on two years probation at 14, he then worked in a series of "menial jobs" before "turning on, tuning in, and dropping out" in 1967. After living in a commune in Cumberland , he started a commune on Eel Pie Island in

342-573: Was conscripted into the army as a sapper , going on to work as a draughtsman in the Royal Engineers . Based in Glasgow during the war, Ward began attending Glasgow Anarchist Group events. As a soldier he subscribed to the anti-militarist anarchist newspaper War Commentary , and in 1945 Ward was called as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of the paper's editors, John Hewetson , Vernon Richards and Philip Sansom . Shortly after

361-594: Was unveiled in Plymouth , making tribute to the Tolpuddle Martyrs . In 1837, some of the martyrs returned to Dorset from Australia after being pardoned. Colin Ward Colin Ward (14 August 1924 – 11 February 2010) was a British anarchist writer and editor. He has been called "one of the greatest anarchist thinkers of the past half century, and a pioneering social historian ." Ward

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