The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a camping, hiking and handicraft group with ambitions to bring world peace. It was the first of three movements in England associated with the charismatic artist and writer John Hargrave (1894–1982).

Formed in 1920, the Kibbo Kift (meaning ‘great strength’) was driven by Hargrave’s enthusiasm for handicraft and self-education. The movement began as a nature-loving group of costumed campers. But by the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the Kibbo Kift had rebranded into a people's army who wore military-inspired uniform and ...

Kibbo Kift ideas and Kibbo Kift branches took root and flourished in Scotland, in Holland, Belgium, even in Russia. The influence of Hargrave's views and methods on the German youth movement of the twenties has been acknowledged by several authorities.

2016年8月1日 · In 2015, the design historian and researcher Annebella Pollen wrote a beautiful, heavily-illustrated book The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians, which tells the little-known...

Continuing into the Kibbo Kift years, its existence rather undermined Hargrave’s public claims that Kibbo Kift was nothing like a secret society. Via private rituals, conducted monthly at the full Moon and also in the mysterious ‘Taboo Tent’ at Kibbo Kift gatherings, Hargrave’s closest and most trusted friends and

The Kibbo Kift are a woodcraft scouting organisation, created by John Hargrave around 100 years ago, with inspiration from Baden-Powell, E.T Seton, German Scouting, and a whole lot more. After an 80-or-so year long “sleep”, the Kindred was fully awoken in South America in 2020, the 100 year anniversary of the Kin with the formation of Kibbo ...

This exhibition presents the art, craft, design and dress of the English organisation the Kibbo Kift Kindred, who were active from 1920 to 1932. Kibbo Kift means proof of great strength and originates from an archaic Cheshire dialect.

The Kibbo Kift’s healthy, spartan living, its hiking, camping and pilgrimages, were conceived in opposition to the degradations of industrial society—the polluted, crowded cities, the thousands of war dead—and meant to unite mind, body and spirit toward world peace and …

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a British social movement founded in 1920 by John Hargrave, blending outdoor activities, craftsmanship, and a philosophy of peace and self-reliance. Aimed at fostering physical health and mental well-being, it combined scouting traditions with an idealistic vision of a better, more harmonious society.

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a youth organisation in England from 1920 to 1951. It was founded by the charismatic John Hargrave (White Fox), artist, author and Boy Scout Commissioner for Woodcraft and Camping, who had become disenchanted with the increasingly militaristic tendency in the Scout movement after World War I.