Cultivate Your Leisure
The Idler Academy is a school and bookseller founded in 2011 by Tom Hodgkinson and Victoria Hull with the intention of providing lifelong education in useful, enjoyable but neglected subjects. The ancient Greek word schole, which turned into our word for “school”, originally meant “free time”. It was with this Athenian sense of the importance of cultivated leisure that the Idler Academy was conceived.
Our motto is libertas per cultum, meaning “freedom through education”.
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BESPOKE LIBRARY SERVICE ANNOUNCED
The Idler Academy team helps clients build book collections with a selection of new and antiquarian books for libraries of any size. The team includes author Tom Hodgkinson and bookseller Julian Mash. Whether you have just a shelf to fill …
Idler Summer School, 29 July – 3 August 2013
Treat your mind to a week of contemplation with the Idler Academy’s top tutors and lecturers. Spend your days studying the liberal arts and your evenings talking and drinking wine. Lecturers include Tom Hodgkinson and Gavin Pretor-Pinney. You will be …
Foraging and Philosophy Weekend, Exmoor, 28 – 30 June
FEED YOU MIND, SOUL AND BODY on our foraging and philosophy weekend. Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson and Academy founder Victoria Hull will be joined by philosopher Mark Vernon and forager Lucia Stuart for a weekend of soul food and mindful …
Grammar Wars!
VARIOUS BLOCKHEADS over the last couple of weeks have laughably attempted to assert that to promote and discuss good grammar automatically means that you are a Tory. It’s been surprising to me, having written four books which have attempted to …
