Advisory Service for Squatters
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Helping squatters and other homeless and activists in England and Wales, and solidarity with elsewhere
great new squat history archive;
A visual archive of the Tolmers Village community, London NW1, 1972–1979
tolmers.net
A visual archive of the Tolmers Village community, London NW1, 1972–1979
tolmers.net
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tolmers.net has been set up to collect photographs, stories and memorabilia on the squatting community and neighbourhood campaigns that took place in a small area near Euston station in central London...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
great new squat history archive;
A visual archive of the Tolmers Village community, London NW1, 1972–1979
tolmers.net
A visual archive of the Tolmers Village community, London NW1, 1972–1979
tolmers.net
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101 months since we lost our 72
The Tower is coming down, but still no justice.
Government continues to drag its feet on Inquiry
recommendations & there’s no progress on a National Oversight Mechanism to ensure lessons are learned.
We won't stop until we get justice & change.
The Tower is coming down, but still no justice.
Government continues to drag its feet on Inquiry
recommendations & there’s no progress on a National Oversight Mechanism to ensure lessons are learned.
We won't stop until we get justice & change.
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
101 months since we lost our 72
The Tower is coming down, but still no justice.
Government continues to drag its feet on Inquiry
recommendations & there’s no progress on a National Oversight Mechanism to ensure lessons are learned.
We won't stop until we get justice & change.
The Tower is coming down, but still no justice.
Government continues to drag its feet on Inquiry
recommendations & there’s no progress on a National Oversight Mechanism to ensure lessons are learned.
We won't stop until we get justice & change.
nice
New #OpenAccess #History from @uclpress.bsky.social
Rent Strikes
A history of collective tenant actions across the world
uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...
Rent Strikes
A history of collective tenant actions across the world
uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...
Rent Strikes
Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Exhibition Crew Assemble 🔧
Are you homeless or have been? Are you sick of how things are?
Come to MOH in December/January, every Thursday, to help us plan our next top secret protest exhibition.
Click below for more details ⬇️
museumofhomelessness.org/creative-thu...
Are you homeless or have been? Are you sick of how things are?
Come to MOH in December/January, every Thursday, to help us plan our next top secret protest exhibition.
Click below for more details ⬇️
museumofhomelessness.org/creative-thu...
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Exhibition Crew Assemble 🔧
Are you homeless or have been? Are you sick of how things are?
Come to MOH in December/January, every Thursday, to help us plan our next top secret protest exhibition.
Click below for more details ⬇️
museumofhomelessness.org/creative-thu...
Are you homeless or have been? Are you sick of how things are?
Come to MOH in December/January, every Thursday, to help us plan our next top secret protest exhibition.
Click below for more details ⬇️
museumofhomelessness.org/creative-thu...
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Things are looking very good in preparation for tomorrow's all day #spycops event at Lush in Beak St with campaigners, artists & @markthomasinfo.bsky.social.
There may be a few spaces left. Book here or join waiting list: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surviving-...
There may be a few spaces left. Book here or join waiting list: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surviving-...
October 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Things are looking very good in preparation for tomorrow's all day #spycops event at Lush in Beak St with campaigners, artists & @markthomasinfo.bsky.social.
There may be a few spaces left. Book here or join waiting list: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surviving-...
There may be a few spaces left. Book here or join waiting list: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surviving-...
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Crowded news agenda today but if you want a break from the Middle East, tune in this morning to the #spycops inquiry to listen to the opening statements. It promises to be a fascinating tranche of hearings in the coming months…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_It...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_It...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Crowded news agenda today but if you want a break from the Middle East, tune in this morning to the #spycops inquiry to listen to the opening statements. It promises to be a fascinating tranche of hearings in the coming months…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_It...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_It...
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CW: Extreme child sex abuse.
Police informer known to #spycops has been convicted of horrific crimes. Police use a mix of payments & blackmail for informers - did they turn a blind eye to Gratwick's paedophilia to get information on eco activists?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police informer known to #spycops has been convicted of horrific crimes. Police use a mix of payments & blackmail for informers - did they turn a blind eye to Gratwick's paedophilia to get information on eco activists?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists
Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
CW: Extreme child sex abuse.
Police informer known to #spycops has been convicted of horrific crimes. Police use a mix of payments & blackmail for informers - did they turn a blind eye to Gratwick's paedophilia to get information on eco activists?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police informer known to #spycops has been convicted of horrific crimes. Police use a mix of payments & blackmail for informers - did they turn a blind eye to Gratwick's paedophilia to get information on eco activists?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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📢📢 DUE TO PROTESTS OUTSIDE DOWNING STREET TONIGHTS NATIONAL VIGIL IS MOVING TO ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, TRAFALGAR SQUARE📢📢
PLEASE SHARE TY
PLEASE SHARE TY
October 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
📢📢 DUE TO PROTESTS OUTSIDE DOWNING STREET TONIGHTS NATIONAL VIGIL IS MOVING TO ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, TRAFALGAR SQUARE📢📢
PLEASE SHARE TY
PLEASE SHARE TY
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Throwback to a very inspiring archival project! www.vam.ac.uk/blog/disobed...
The website of the exhibit, "Made Possible by Squatting," is also still accessible thanks to the @archive.org: madepossiblebysquatting.co.uk/index.php/ar...
The website of the exhibit, "Made Possible by Squatting," is also still accessible thanks to the @archive.org: madepossiblebysquatting.co.uk/index.php/ar...
Made Possible by Squatting: Myth, memory, mimesis • V&A Blog
Amongst the banners in the first room of Disobedient Objects is ‘Kraken Gaat Door’ (Squatting Goes On). This specific banner was made in the 1980s, forming part of a multi-year direct action campaign...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Throwback to a very inspiring archival project! www.vam.ac.uk/blog/disobed...
The website of the exhibit, "Made Possible by Squatting," is also still accessible thanks to the @archive.org: madepossiblebysquatting.co.uk/index.php/ar...
The website of the exhibit, "Made Possible by Squatting," is also still accessible thanks to the @archive.org: madepossiblebysquatting.co.uk/index.php/ar...
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With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:
museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...
Read more on our site here:
museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...
Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness
We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...
museumofhomelessness.org
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:
museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...
Read more on our site here:
museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...
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Please join us to remember with love all who have died whilst homeless in 2024.
9/10/2025
Opposite Downing Street.
Gathering from 6pm, we will read the names at 7pm.
Organised by Museum of Homelessness as part of the Dying Homeless Project 🕯
9/10/2025
Opposite Downing Street.
Gathering from 6pm, we will read the names at 7pm.
Organised by Museum of Homelessness as part of the Dying Homeless Project 🕯
September 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Please join us to remember with love all who have died whilst homeless in 2024.
9/10/2025
Opposite Downing Street.
Gathering from 6pm, we will read the names at 7pm.
Organised by Museum of Homelessness as part of the Dying Homeless Project 🕯
9/10/2025
Opposite Downing Street.
Gathering from 6pm, we will read the names at 7pm.
Organised by Museum of Homelessness as part of the Dying Homeless Project 🕯
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#OnThisDay in London rebel history: Savoy Hotel air-raid shelter occupied by Eastenders, 1940.
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Today in London rebel history: Savoy Hotel air-raid shelter occupied by Eastenders, 1940.
In the early days of World War 2, after the German Luftwaffe’s attack on Britain’s air defences failed, the planes turned their attention to bombing of civilians. During the early days of the Blitz…
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September 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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CALL-OUT: did you witness police violence at the arms fair protest on 9 September? netpol.org/2025/09/11/c...
September 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
CALL-OUT: did you witness police violence at the arms fair protest on 9 September? netpol.org/2025/09/11/c...
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#OnThisDay in London housing history, 1946: mass squat of Duchess of Bedford House, Kensington
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Today in London housing history, 1946: mass squat of Duchess of Bedford House, Kensington
At the end of WW2 there was massive homelessness around the country – a pre-war shortage of housing had been made worse by the destruction of houses through bombing and a total halt in the building…
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September 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
#OnThisDay in London housing history, 1946: mass squat of Duchess of Bedford House, Kensington
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Next Sunday: all roads lead to Wapping! Radical History Factions's 2025 offensive continues with a FREE walk around East London. 2pm Wapping Green. radicalhistoryfaction.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...
Forward to Wapping! 14th September
Join us in East London for tales of riots, pirates, pressgangs, dockers and more! 2pm Wapping Green, Sunday 14th September 2025. Bring your own memories and contributions…
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September 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Next Sunday: all roads lead to Wapping! Radical History Factions's 2025 offensive continues with a FREE walk around East London. 2pm Wapping Green. radicalhistoryfaction.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...
squatting still helps,
sometimes
sometimes
#OnThisDay in London squatting history, 2012: Friern Barnet library squatted after closure.
More on the closure, squatting and re-opening on the library:
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More on the closure, squatting and re-opening on the library:
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Today in London’s rebel past: Friern Barnet library reopens, 2013.
Friern Barnet Library in Barnet, north London, was occupied by campaigners and re-opened to the public, after local council cuts closed it down. Ironically it was the new law criminalising squattin…
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September 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
squatting still helps,
sometimes
sometimes
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“We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division.”
I've joined @palomafaith.music-social.com @zarahsultana.bsky.social @zoejardiniere.bsky.social and many more in signing this
I've joined @palomafaith.music-social.com @zarahsultana.bsky.social @zoejardiniere.bsky.social and many more in signing this
Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse
Exclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
“We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division.”
I've joined @palomafaith.music-social.com @zarahsultana.bsky.social @zoejardiniere.bsky.social and many more in signing this
I've joined @palomafaith.music-social.com @zarahsultana.bsky.social @zoejardiniere.bsky.social and many more in signing this
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We're looking forward to speaking next week at this fringe meeting at @tuc.org.uk conference to start building an audience for the next set of #spycops inquiry hearings. If you're in Brighton, come & say hello. 👋
September 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We're looking forward to speaking next week at this fringe meeting at @tuc.org.uk conference to start building an audience for the next set of #spycops inquiry hearings. If you're in Brighton, come & say hello. 👋
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We are open to the public today for stories from the national collection for homelessness shared by our @brownlewisdavid
Its ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews every time.
Join us to see why.
1230, 230 or 345.
Free of charge but donations welcome. ❤️🙏
Its ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews every time.
Join us to see why.
1230, 230 or 345.
Free of charge but donations welcome. ❤️🙏
August 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
We are open to the public today for stories from the national collection for homelessness shared by our @brownlewisdavid
Its ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews every time.
Join us to see why.
1230, 230 or 345.
Free of charge but donations welcome. ❤️🙏
Its ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews every time.
Join us to see why.
1230, 230 or 345.
Free of charge but donations welcome. ❤️🙏
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Activists had been given assurances no action would be taken until 9 September. The early morning, midsummer timing of the eviction is thought to have been chosen due to the expectation of little resistance.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/21/i...
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Italy: Eviction of historic Leoncavallo social centre in Milan - Freedom News
Far-right national government pushed for the surprise eviction despite ongoing talks with municipality ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Police in Milan, Italy this morning (21 August) evicted the Leoncavallo occupi...
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August 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Activists had been given assurances no action would be taken until 9 September. The early morning, midsummer timing of the eviction is thought to have been chosen due to the expectation of little resistance.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/21/i...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/21/i...
coming soon, a proper flyer
August 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
coming soon, a proper flyer
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#OnThisDay in London squatting history, 1978: mass eviction of squatted blocks in Huntley Street, Bloomsbury.
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Today in London squatting history, 1978: mass eviction in Huntley Street, Bloomsbury.
In February 1977 5 blocks of 54 empty police flats, in Huntley Street, behind University College Hospital, which had lain empty for 4 years, were squatted; as an initiative of the Squatters Action …
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August 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
#OnThisDay in London squatting history, 1978: mass eviction of squatted blocks in Huntley Street, Bloomsbury.
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