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A research project exploring 1970s activist print culture. Current project: local Manchester newspapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
A research project exploring 1970s activist print culture. Current project: local Manchester newspapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
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A new category on the Radical Online Archives and Collections page is academic organisations, with the online collections of Radical Philosophy and Union of Socialist Geographers Newsletter listed.
Any other suggestions of similar organisations/journals welcome!
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
Any other suggestions of similar organisations/journals welcome!
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
radical online collections and archives
I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…
hatfulofhistory.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:55 PM
A new category on the Radical Online Archives and Collections page is academic organisations, with the online collections of Radical Philosophy and Union of Socialist Geographers Newsletter listed.
Any other suggestions of similar organisations/journals welcome!
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
Any other suggestions of similar organisations/journals welcome!
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
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A chain of memory - 2026-1976-1945
50 years ago 'Gladrag', magazine of Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, looked at 'Gays and Fascism'. The last of the Nazi concentration camps had been liberated 31 years earlier.
The aims & context of Gay Lib - for the L, G & T - were set out inside.
#LGBTplusHM
50 years ago 'Gladrag', magazine of Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, looked at 'Gays and Fascism'. The last of the Nazi concentration camps had been liberated 31 years earlier.
The aims & context of Gay Lib - for the L, G & T - were set out inside.
#LGBTplusHM
February 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
A chain of memory - 2026-1976-1945
50 years ago 'Gladrag', magazine of Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, looked at 'Gays and Fascism'. The last of the Nazi concentration camps had been liberated 31 years earlier.
The aims & context of Gay Lib - for the L, G & T - were set out inside.
#LGBTplusHM
50 years ago 'Gladrag', magazine of Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, looked at 'Gays and Fascism'. The last of the Nazi concentration camps had been liberated 31 years earlier.
The aims & context of Gay Lib - for the L, G & T - were set out inside.
#LGBTplusHM
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Harry Haywood's Negro Liberation
Join @wakerevolt.bsky.social and Kyle T. Mays as they celebrate the new edition of a major work in the Black Communist tradition by worker-intellectual Harry Haywood.
Monday, February 9th at 4 PM ET
RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Join @wakerevolt.bsky.social and Kyle T. Mays as they celebrate the new edition of a major work in the Black Communist tradition by worker-intellectual Harry Haywood.
Monday, February 9th at 4 PM ET
RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
January 28, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Harry Haywood's Negro Liberation
Join @wakerevolt.bsky.social and Kyle T. Mays as they celebrate the new edition of a major work in the Black Communist tradition by worker-intellectual Harry Haywood.
Monday, February 9th at 4 PM ET
RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Join @wakerevolt.bsky.social and Kyle T. Mays as they celebrate the new edition of a major work in the Black Communist tradition by worker-intellectual Harry Haywood.
Monday, February 9th at 4 PM ET
RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
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Lots of great books, including free ebooks from us and @haymarketbooks.org, on the @literaryhub.bsky.social guide on what to read to understand the ICE phenomenon.
What to read to understand the ICE phenomenon.
Our friends at Verso have prepared this ultra thorough ABOLISH ICE reading list, featuring a number of excellent titles that can help explain how we got here. Histories of American immigration, or …
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January 28, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Lots of great books, including free ebooks from us and @haymarketbooks.org, on the @literaryhub.bsky.social guide on what to read to understand the ICE phenomenon.
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How has the History Workshop Journal collective sustained its commitment to radical history over fifty tumultuous years?
Two HWJ veterans, Sally Alexander and Jeffrey Weeks, sat down to share their memories with @beckierutherford.bsky.social and @inoutofpractice.bsky.social🎙✊🏻
Two HWJ veterans, Sally Alexander and Jeffrey Weeks, sat down to share their memories with @beckierutherford.bsky.social and @inoutofpractice.bsky.social🎙✊🏻
Working Collectively Then and Now
How did History Workshop Journal's editorial collective sustain its commitment to radical history over fifty tumultuous years? Sally Alexander and Jeffrey Weeks discuss.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 7:26 AM
How has the History Workshop Journal collective sustained its commitment to radical history over fifty tumultuous years?
Two HWJ veterans, Sally Alexander and Jeffrey Weeks, sat down to share their memories with @beckierutherford.bsky.social and @inoutofpractice.bsky.social🎙✊🏻
Two HWJ veterans, Sally Alexander and Jeffrey Weeks, sat down to share their memories with @beckierutherford.bsky.social and @inoutofpractice.bsky.social🎙✊🏻
Save the date! Join us for an online archival workshop with @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social and @irrnews.bsky.social to explore the materials and histories of Black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Save the date! Join us for an online archival workshop with @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social and @irrnews.bsky.social to explore the materials and histories of Black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...
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There's still time to join us at the Annual George Padmore Institute Lecture on 5 February. This free event will reveal the hidden story of a key player in Jamaica's history. Frank Hill was a journalist, activist and as noteworthy as contemporaries such as CLR James.
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Happy 2026! Celebrate our 35th anniversary year with us at the second Annual George Padmore Institute Lecture. Professor Matthew J Smith will talk about Frank Hill, a key figure in the creation of an independent Jamaica.
📅 5 February 2026
⏰ 18:00-19:30
📍QMUL Mile End
💰 Free
🎟 tinyurl.com/QMSmith
📅 5 February 2026
⏰ 18:00-19:30
📍QMUL Mile End
💰 Free
🎟 tinyurl.com/QMSmith
The Second Annual George Padmore Institute Lecture: Matthew J Smith
‘Pressing Against Babel: Frank Hill and the Creation Story of Jamaica’
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January 28, 2026 at 10:25 AM
There's still time to join us at the Annual George Padmore Institute Lecture on 5 February. This free event will reveal the hidden story of a key player in Jamaica's history. Frank Hill was a journalist, activist and as noteworthy as contemporaries such as CLR James.
Details 👇
Details 👇
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Abolish ICE. Abolish the border. Abolish the police.
A better world is possible if we fight for it.
A better world is possible if we fight for it.
January 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Abolish ICE. Abolish the border. Abolish the police.
A better world is possible if we fight for it.
A better world is possible if we fight for it.
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‘Not Just a Building’ celebrates the history of Bradford’s 1 in 12 Club
A NEW PUBLICATION celebrates the history, creativity, resilience and DIY determination of Bradford's celebrated 1 in 12 Club. Drawing material from more than fifty interviews with organisers, artists and visitors, Not Just a…
A NEW PUBLICATION celebrates the history, creativity, resilience and DIY determination of Bradford's celebrated 1 in 12 Club. Drawing material from more than fifty interviews with organisers, artists and visitors, Not Just a…
‘Not Just a Building’ celebrates the history of Bradford’s 1 in 12 Club
A NEW PUBLICATION celebrates the history, creativity, resilience and DIY determination of Bradford's celebrated 1 in 12 Club. Drawing material from more than fifty interviews with organisers, artists and visitors, Not Just a Building - at the 1 in 12 also brings together photographs, posters, flyers and ephemera to celebrate "collective memory and the care, curiosity, and commitment of all who contributed."
thehippiesnowwearblack.org.uk
January 27, 2026 at 8:33 PM
‘Not Just a Building’ celebrates the history of Bradford’s 1 in 12 Club
A NEW PUBLICATION celebrates the history, creativity, resilience and DIY determination of Bradford's celebrated 1 in 12 Club. Drawing material from more than fifty interviews with organisers, artists and visitors, Not Just a…
A NEW PUBLICATION celebrates the history, creativity, resilience and DIY determination of Bradford's celebrated 1 in 12 Club. Drawing material from more than fifty interviews with organisers, artists and visitors, Not Just a…
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In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
www.haymarketbooks.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:13 PM
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
From the archives
January 25, 2026 at 12:25 PM
From the archives
Next Manchester Urban Film Series screening coming up on February 9th at the Central Library: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-fi... with @themodernist.bsky.social and thanks to the North West Film Archive
January 21, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Next Manchester Urban Film Series screening coming up on February 9th at the Central Library: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-fi... with @themodernist.bsky.social and thanks to the North West Film Archive
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“Overcoming difference is not the same as washing it away. Political solidarity is a recognition that we have a mutual interest in organizing together to create a political force that can change the conditions that we all suffer from, even if that suffering looks different based on social position.”
The Black Feminist Collective That Gave Us Identity Politics
The Combahee River Collective’s 1977 statement reshaped the politics of the Black left and beyond.
hammerandhope.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:23 PM
“Overcoming difference is not the same as washing it away. Political solidarity is a recognition that we have a mutual interest in organizing together to create a political force that can change the conditions that we all suffer from, even if that suffering looks different based on social position.”
Thanks to everyone who joined as us the Interference Archive last night and especially our speakers from Planners Network, Science for the People and URPE — looking forward to continuing the conversation on Saturday morning!
January 9, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Thanks to everyone who joined as us the Interference Archive last night and especially our speakers from Planners Network, Science for the People and URPE — looking forward to continuing the conversation on Saturday morning!
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What does a new exhibition on 200 years of British trades union history reveal about the tumultuous story of workers organising for change?
Marybeth Hamilton sits down with historians and archivists to discuss the exhibition and the unexpected stories that it unveils.
Marybeth Hamilton sits down with historians and archivists to discuss the exhibition and the unexpected stories that it unveils.
Reimagining Trades Union History
What does a new exhibition on 200 years of British trades union history reveal about the triumphs and challenges of collective action?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
January 8, 2026 at 7:00 AM
What does a new exhibition on 200 years of British trades union history reveal about the tumultuous story of workers organising for change?
Marybeth Hamilton sits down with historians and archivists to discuss the exhibition and the unexpected stories that it unveils.
Marybeth Hamilton sits down with historians and archivists to discuss the exhibition and the unexpected stories that it unveils.
As a follow up event (for those interested in diving deeper into the topic!), we'll be hosting a "Radicals in the Professions" reading + discussion meetup in NYC on Saturday morning
at the Interference Archive cohosted w/ Planners Network and the Architecture Lobby: eventbrite.co.uk/e/radicals-i...
at the Interference Archive cohosted w/ Planners Network and the Architecture Lobby: eventbrite.co.uk/e/radicals-i...
January 7, 2026 at 12:45 AM
As a follow up event (for those interested in diving deeper into the topic!), we'll be hosting a "Radicals in the Professions" reading + discussion meetup in NYC on Saturday morning
at the Interference Archive cohosted w/ Planners Network and the Architecture Lobby: eventbrite.co.uk/e/radicals-i...
at the Interference Archive cohosted w/ Planners Network and the Architecture Lobby: eventbrite.co.uk/e/radicals-i...
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Newsreel’s “films, produced during the political ruptures of the 60s + 70s, may be the closest the US has come to a homegrown revolutionary cinema. In their approach to financing, filming, + distribution, [they] embodied a genuinely counter-hegemonic method that moved beyond revolutnry aesthetics…”
The Revolution, Documented: On the Newsreel Group | The Brooklyn Rail
Newsreel embodies a genuinely counter-hegemonic method of financing, filming, and distribution that moved beyond revolutionary aesthetics.
brooklynrail.org
December 31, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Newsreel’s “films, produced during the political ruptures of the 60s + 70s, may be the closest the US has come to a homegrown revolutionary cinema. In their approach to financing, filming, + distribution, [they] embodied a genuinely counter-hegemonic method that moved beyond revolutnry aesthetics…”
NYC! Join us for an archival workshop and discussion on the topic of 1970s "counter professional" networks, activism and publishing hosted at Interference Archive: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...
December 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
NYC! Join us for an archival workshop and discussion on the topic of 1970s "counter professional" networks, activism and publishing hosted at Interference Archive: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...
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50 years ago this month - a radical take on the 12 days of Christmas from Luton Street Press - '12 nurseries playing, 11 troops deserting, 10 streets for squatting...' history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/12/happ...
Happy Christmas from Radical Luton 1975
history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
50 years ago this month - a radical take on the 12 days of Christmas from Luton Street Press - '12 nurseries playing, 11 troops deserting, 10 streets for squatting...' history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/12/happ...
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Review for The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities: "A powerful, poignant, reflection on the past and future of Black archives." — Kirkus
Read more: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Read more: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
THE HOUSE ARCHIVES BUILT AND OTHER THOUGHTS … | Kirkus Reviews
A preeminent archivist blends memoir, archival theory, and Black history in this nonfiction book.
www.kirkusreviews.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Review for The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities: "A powerful, poignant, reflection on the past and future of Black archives." — Kirkus
Read more: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Read more: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Radio Free People's tapes (via the Liberation News Service, 1971: jstor.org/stable/community.28039451)
December 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Radio Free People's tapes (via the Liberation News Service, 1971: jstor.org/stable/community.28039451)
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Listen to Gloria J. Browne-Marshall on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussing her book, A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES: bit.ly/4iXnLWr @beaconpress.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Listen to Gloria J. Browne-Marshall on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussing her book, A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES: bit.ly/4iXnLWr @beaconpress.bsky.social
This Sunday! At Hausmania in #Oslo
For anyone in #Oslo next weekend! Come join a "Jul" activist history film night + social <3 www.broadcast.events/events/FREE-...
December 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This Sunday! At Hausmania in #Oslo
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Aaron Boehmer on finding books and more in community libraries in times like these: "These local libraries gesture toward a different kind of recordkeeping that is grounded in community stewardship rather than state authority."
Read more: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
Read more: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
December 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Aaron Boehmer on finding books and more in community libraries in times like these: "These local libraries gesture toward a different kind of recordkeeping that is grounded in community stewardship rather than state authority."
Read more: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
Read more: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/
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Kids braving the winter cold and marching on the picket line during the Flint Sit-down Strike in 1937. Walking through a winter flurry this morning reminded me of this gem from the @uaw.org archives here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
December 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Kids braving the winter cold and marching on the picket line during the Flint Sit-down Strike in 1937. Walking through a winter flurry this morning reminded me of this gem from the @uaw.org archives here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.