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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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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.
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#OnThisDay in London herstory, 3-day Anarcha feminist conference begins at Centro Iberico, 1979.
More on the Centro at its various buildings:
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More on the Centro at its various buildings:
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Spotlight on London’s historical anarchist spaces: Centro Iberico
Centro Ibérico was an important meeting space and community centre, run by anarchists in London through the 1970s and early 1980s. It became a focal point for an international class struggle based …
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December 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
#OnThisDay in London herstory, 3-day Anarcha feminist conference begins at Centro Iberico, 1979.
More on the Centro at its various buildings:
wp.me/p74yfw-1nl
More on the Centro at its various buildings:
wp.me/p74yfw-1nl
For anyone in #Oslo next weekend! Come join a "Jul" activist history film night + social <3 www.broadcast.events/events/FREE-...
December 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
For anyone in #Oslo next weekend! Come join a "Jul" activist history film night + social <3 www.broadcast.events/events/FREE-...
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I just learned about R.B. Tiven's work on the history of women nightworkers - including bookbinders and printers and in the Typographical Union, the "largest, most powerful local in the country" in the early 20th c!
resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.gothamcenter.org/blog/working...
resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.gothamcenter.org/blog/working...
Working Against Type: Typographical Union No. 6 and the Battle Over Women’s Night Work — The Gotham Center for New York City History
Working Against Type: Typographical Union No. 6 and the Battle Over Women’s Night Work By R.B. Tiven After the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York passed a law barring women from nighttime ...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I just learned about R.B. Tiven's work on the history of women nightworkers - including bookbinders and printers and in the Typographical Union, the "largest, most powerful local in the country" in the early 20th c!
resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.gothamcenter.org/blog/working...
resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.gothamcenter.org/blog/working...
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"By excavating the urban struggles of 1970s Italy with a spatialized understanding of Operaismo’s signature theoretical contribution––class composition––the book provides both an important contribution to radical urban history and a window into how current urban struggles might be theorized." ❤️🔥 ❤️🔥 ❤️🔥
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"By excavating the urban struggles of 1970s Italy with a spatialized understanding of Operaismo’s signature theoretical contribution––class composition––the book provides both an important contribution to radical urban history and a window into how current urban struggles might be theorized." ❤️🔥 ❤️🔥 ❤️🔥
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As we launch our new issue 7.2, we explore the lasting connections between space, time, and housing justice.
Edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke.
Read the editorial below and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org
Edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke.
Read the editorial below and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org
The longue durée of housing justice » Radical Housing Journal
This editorial frames housing justice as a question of spatial and temporal struggle, engaging the longue durée of dispossession, endurance, and collective transformation. From the weaponisation of sp...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
As we launch our new issue 7.2, we explore the lasting connections between space, time, and housing justice.
Edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke.
Read the editorial below and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org
Edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke.
Read the editorial below and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org
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‘It’s possible that the history of printing is a stitched-together story of the movement of knowledge from East to West, rather as paper-making spread from Asia through the Arab world from the eighth century.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on Gutenberg.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on Gutenberg.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth · Slice It Up: Gutenberg’s Great Invention
Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
‘It’s possible that the history of printing is a stitched-together story of the movement of knowledge from East to West, rather as paper-making spread from Asia through the Arab world from the eighth century.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on Gutenberg.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on Gutenberg.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Our latest Radical Read is a really important book to us at WCH: Beverly Silver's Forces of Labor. A look at labour unrest around the world since 1870 and capitalist strategies in response, it's essential reading for all radicals.
Listen on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/e113-r...
Listen on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/e113-r...
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Our latest Radical Read is a really important book to us at WCH: Beverly Silver's Forces of Labor. A look at labour unrest around the world since 1870 and capitalist strategies in response, it's essential reading for all radicals.
Listen on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/e113-r...
Listen on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/e113-r...
Thanks again to everyone who contributed to a rich & lively discussion at our event "The People's Papers: Revisiting 1970s Manchester."
The recording is now up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KZ...
Special thanks to cohosts @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social !
The recording is now up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KZ...
Special thanks to cohosts @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social !
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Thanks again to everyone who contributed to a rich & lively discussion at our event "The People's Papers: Revisiting 1970s Manchester."
The recording is now up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KZ...
Special thanks to cohosts @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social !
The recording is now up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KZ...
Special thanks to cohosts @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social !
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Absolutely crucial piece for historians and heritage practitioners, regardless of whether you study Palestine
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Absolutely crucial piece for historians and heritage practitioners, regardless of whether you study Palestine
Next up: rent strikes, housing co-ops, squatting, communes and more! A housing periodicals appreciation post 🙏
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November 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Next up: rent strikes, housing co-ops, squatting, communes and more! A housing periodicals appreciation post 🙏
www.instagram.com/peoplespapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/peoplespapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
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Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment?
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
A Forgotten Rebel
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment?
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
New post up! Learn more about Waterloo Place on the @officialuom.bsky.social campus in the 1970s, once home to a whole range of radical political projects and groups.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
New post up! Learn more about Waterloo Place on the @officialuom.bsky.social campus in the 1970s, once home to a whole range of radical political projects and groups.
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linktr.ee/peoplespapers
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“As the harsh realities of neoliberal capitalism unfold, we must attend to the spaces where hope still takes root & grows.”
Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social introduce The Sociological Review magazine’s most recent issue.
Illustration: @raquelfigueira.bsky.social
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Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social introduce The Sociological Review magazine’s most recent issue.
Illustration: @raquelfigueira.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“As the harsh realities of neoliberal capitalism unfold, we must attend to the spaces where hope still takes root & grows.”
Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social introduce The Sociological Review magazine’s most recent issue.
Illustration: @raquelfigueira.bsky.social
buff.ly/5crknOP
Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social introduce The Sociological Review magazine’s most recent issue.
Illustration: @raquelfigueira.bsky.social
buff.ly/5crknOP
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“When a world dies, much dies alongside it. Ways of thinking, ways of building, ways of living so mundane no one noticed their presence or their passing.”
Idle Things | Robert Rubsam
In “Things That Disappear,” Jenny Erpenbeck grapples with ruins, revealing the virtue of unproductive places and idle things.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“When a world dies, much dies alongside it. Ways of thinking, ways of building, ways of living so mundane no one noticed their presence or their passing.”
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Mon 8 Dec - a date for the diary for anyone interested in hearing more about #LeedsOtherPaper, courtesy of the Ford Maguire Society.
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Mon 8 Dec - a date for the diary for anyone interested in hearing more about #LeedsOtherPaper, courtesy of the Ford Maguire Society.
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Visualize all 23 years of BYTE magazine in all its glory, all at once:
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Visualize all 23 years of BYTE magazine in all its glory, all at once:
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#OtD 10 Nov 1970 Puerto Rican radicals from the Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. Over 600 people, including health workers, joined them to publicise the flagrant disregard for human life in NYC hospitals stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8235...
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#OtD 10 Nov 1970 Puerto Rican radicals from the Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. Over 600 people, including health workers, joined them to publicise the flagrant disregard for human life in NYC hospitals stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8235...
New post up on instagram featuring Peace News’ 1975 special issue on Manchester and “the growth of a radical community.”
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November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New post up on instagram featuring Peace News’ 1975 special issue on Manchester and “the growth of a radical community.”
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Workers’ Inquiry! From yesterday’s session @histmat.bsky.social with @americanwork47.bsky.social @abolisheconomics.bsky.social and others 😍
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Workers’ Inquiry! From yesterday’s session @histmat.bsky.social with @americanwork47.bsky.social @abolisheconomics.bsky.social and others 😍
Thanks to everyone who joined us earlier this week and especially to everyone who shared their experiences of 1970s Manchester! Stay tuned for more✨
Thanks also to our collaborators and cohosts for making this event possible @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social 💗
Thanks also to our collaborators and cohosts for making this event possible @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social 💗
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Thanks to everyone who joined us earlier this week and especially to everyone who shared their experiences of 1970s Manchester! Stay tuned for more✨
Thanks also to our collaborators and cohosts for making this event possible @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social 💗
Thanks also to our collaborators and cohosts for making this event possible @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social 💗
This Tuesday!
A week from today in Manchester! @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @aiucentre.bsky.social @mcrhistories.bsky.social
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Learn more about the project here: linktr.ee/peoplespapers
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November 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This Tuesday!