Discover a powerful and thought‑provoking debut collection from Stephen Yeo, a writer whose poetry blends intellectual curiosity, emotional depth, and spiritual reflection. Lately is a compelling work of modern and contemporary poetry, exploring the complexities of human experience through finely crafted language, vivid imagery, and a voice that is both questioning and compassionate.Yeo’s poems move effortlessly between the personal and th...

First published in 1976, Religion and Voluntary Organisations in Crisis, analyses the experience of late nineteenth and early twentieth century organised religion by setting it in the context of the whole range of voluntary and other organisations. It provides a detailed study of churches and chapels in Reading set alongside the experience of a biscuit factory, football club, the hospital, the university, the WEA branch, the Social Democratic Federation, the Coop, and the other or...

First published in 1988, this book sets out to reinterpret the changing place of working-class association in capitalist Britain. It argues that in combination, co-operation and association constitutes labour’s power — what is has to work with and who to work for — yet social historians have tended to overlook such views in a co-operative setting. What was the struggle, what form did it take, who were the protagonists and what relevance did they have to the community co-operators of the 19...