Why is this site so plain looking?

The George Walford International Essay Prize (awarding £3,500 annually for the best essay on systematic ideology) prides itself on being an international effort. While access to the Internet and high-speed connections may be common in some countries, in other countries such access may be rare indeed. There are also many users of the Internet who rely on text-to-speech software. For these reasons among others, the majority of GWIEP.NET is entirely lacking in flashy graphics and complex layout. What the site lacks in glamor, it more than compensates for in content and ease of access.

However, it would be an error to exclude all graphics from GWIEP.NET. Some of the story of systematic ideology can only be told in the photographs and artwork of those who have contributed to it. Therefore, please take a look at the people, places and things that make up systematic ideology.

People

• George Walford repairing his hang glider.
• George Walford in the garden.
• George Walford's working permit circa WW2.
• George Walford.
• George Walford and friends hill climbing.
• George Walford the gnome.
• George Walford in scuba gear.
• George Walford in his bookshop. His bookshop.
• George Walford reading the newspaper.
• George Walford as a younger man (one and two).
• George Walford with child.
• George Walford in adulthood in photobooth.
• Harold Walsby in youth with pipe.
• Harold Walsby, still young, still smoking a pipe.
• John Rowan.
• Adrian Williams and Trevor Blake, November 1996, London.
• Ike Benjamin and Trevor Blake, November 1997, London.
• Ike Benjamin and Beryl Benjamin, November 1997, London.
• Richenda Walford and Trevor Blake, November 1997, London.
• Allan Maine and Trevor Blake, November 1997, London.
• Zvi Lamm from Science and Public Policy February 1984
• Undated photographs of Democratic Union, photo one [small] [large] and photo two [small] [large]. Can you identify who these men are, where this photograph was taken, and when this (possibly unique) public appeal for Democratic Union was made?
• Janet Reilly and Richenda Walford (one, two, three, four, five)

Places

• The Bookshop (owned by George Walford) where Ideological Commentary and many other works were printed and distributed.
• The attic that temporarily housed the complete works of George Walford, shown here in box after box, November 1996, London.
• The archives of the George Walford Internation Essay Prize, circa 20 September 1994.

Graphs, Charts and Diagrams

• Harold Walsby's schematic diagram of ideological development, taken from Atoms and Ideology in The New Age of Atomics, SSA 1945.
• The Ideological Pyramid by Trevor Blake.
• An undated drawing of Blea Tarn lake by Harold Walsby [small] [large]. Compare to this photograph: http://www.virtual-lakes.co.uk/photoEltBleaTarn.htm
• Photograph of painting by Harold Walsby [large].
• Two small undated prints by Harold Walsby: Rydal Water and Grange Bridge, Borrowdale. Compare to this photograph: http://www.madaboutmountains.com/51214.htm
• Drawings from Dive Better, a 1937 book illustrated by Harold Walsby. [one] [two] [title page]
• Advertisement for 25 October 1971 art show by Harold Walsby at Windermere Galleries [large].
• New Crusade for Democracy. Headline for public event from the Absolutists [graphic].

Books, Pamphlets, Handbills and Posters

Harold Walsby is likely the responsible party for most of the graphics found in these early books and publications relating to systematic ideology.

• 999 Emergency [small] [large].
• Absolute Union of Democracy stationary [small] [large].
• Angles on Anarchism [small] [large].
• The Atom Bomb [small] [large].
• Democratic Union book [small] [large].
• Democratic Union flyer [small] [large].
• Democratic Union (logo version one) [small] [large].
• Democratic Union (logo version two) [small] [large].
• The Dialectic [small] [large].
• Dialectical Materialism [small] [large].
• Digest of of Hegel's Philosophy [image].
• The Domain of Ideologies [small] [large].
• The Ideology of a Monument. Letter, Booklet.
• The Intellectual and the People [small] [large].
• The More We Get Together; front cover [small] [large], page one [small] [large], page two [small] [large], page three [small] [large], page four [small] [large], page five [small] [large], page six [small] [large].
• Mugwumps and Moonshine [small] [large].
• The New Age of Atomics No. 1 [small] [large].
• The New Age of Atomics No. 2 [small] [large].
• Post Mortem on Fascism [small] [large].
• Revised 1945 Consitution of the SSA[small] [large].
• Science and Ideology No. 3 [small] [large].
• Science and Social Problems [small] [large].
• Science Politics and the Masses [small] [large].
• SPGB: Scientific or Utopian? [small] [large].
• SSA / DU logo [small] [large].
• SSA logo [small] [large].
• Total Union Now! [small] [large].
• Understanding The Mass Mind [small] [large].
• You and the SSA [small] [large].