The Little Commonwealth was a school run by Homer Lane in Dorset during the 1910s known for its permissive libertarian approach to education.

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  • Bazeley, Elsie Theodora (1948). Homer Lane and the Little Commonwealth (2nd ed.). London: George Allen & Unwin. OCLC 6361.
  • Brehony, Kevin J. (2008). "The genesis and disappearance of Homer Lane's Little Commonwealth: A Weberian analysis". In Göhlich, Michael; Hopf, Caroline; Tröhler, Daniel (eds.). Persistenz und Verschwinden. Persistence and Disappearance. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. pp. 237–253. doi:10.1007/978-3-531-91125-0_18. ISBN 978-3-531-15977-5.
  • Shotton, John (1993). "Free to Work or Loaf: The Little Commonwealth (Flowers Farm, Evershot, Dorset, 1913–1918)". No Master High or Low: Libertarian Education and Schooling in Britain 1890-1990. Bristol: Libertarian Education. pp. 135–137. ISBN 978-0-9513997-3-6.