some
other radical history groups, libraries and archives, and other people we
feel we share some common ground with
This is
just the start of a list, based initially around groups or sites located
around or dealing with 'historical matters', and either linking them with
activist or subversive goings on today, or with some form of 'radical' perspective...
plus other folk we like. We don't agree on everything with everyone listed
here, but interesting materials and ideas can be found there. Let us know
if you'd like to be added to the list...
Bristol
Radical History Group
The guvnors... Mixing history, ideas and downright riotousness: where others
fear to tread.
brhmob@brh.org.uk
www.brh.org.uk
Wor
Diary
Excellent day to day diary listing radical events and anniversaries for
every day of the year from England's North East, as well as walking tours
and videos...
www.wordiary.org.uk
Kate
Sharpley Library
Longrunning anarchist history archive and publishers.
www.katesharpleylibrary.net
BM Box Hurricane, London WC1N 3XX
email: info@katesharpleylibrary.net
Nottingham
and Notts Radical History Group
A great local group... http://peopleshistreh.wordpress.com/
They are linked to the Sparrows Nest Library & Archive
Resources for anarchist education and history , part of a Notts Centre for
anarchist culture and education. Write to: Box AF, The Sumac Centre, 245,
Gladstone St, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.
http://thesparrowsnest.org.uk
Transpontine
Legendary blog coming out of South London: music, rebel history, politics...
http://transpont.blogspot.com/
History
is made at night
The politics of dancing and musicking
http://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/
East
End History Walks
Historical walks in London's East End, concentrating on migrant communities
and radical movements that they created. Run regular 'Radical Jewish East
End' and 'Anti-Fascist Footprints' walks.
www.eastendwalks.com/
56a
Info shop
Anarchist Social Centre, with bookshop, squat info, records, zines, book
exchange. Has a massive archive of anarchist, feminist, and other radical
printed materials going back decades.
www.56a.org.uk/
Working
Class Movement Library
A collection of working class and labour movement history going back 250
years.
www.wcml.org.uk
51, The Crescent, Salford M5 4WX
Socialist
History Society
Socialist and Labour history from a marxist and 'broadly left' perspective.
Formerly the Communist Party History Group, though now independent of all
parties.
www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk/
The Secretary, SHS, 50 Elmfield Road, Balham, London SW17 8AL
Lewisham
'77
Remembering and reflecting on the 'Battle of Lewisham' in August 1977, when
a mobilisation by the far-right National Front in South East London was
met by mass opposition.
http://lewisham77.blogspot.com/
Remembering
Olive Collective
Commemorating the life of Brixton black rebel Olive Morris and linking her
memory to wider historical currents in the 1960s-70s: black power, feminism,
squatting and more...
http://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com
c/o Lambeth Women's project, 166a Stockwell Road, London, SW9 9TQ
Nerve/Catalyst
Media
Magazine/website of organisation promoting grassroots arts & culture
on Merseyside" site features their brill 'Merseyside Resistance Calendar'.
http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk
Catalyst Creative Media, 1st Floor, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool. L1 4HY
email: catalystmedia(at)mersinet.co.uk
Luddites200
Remembering and honouring the Luddite struggle of 1811-12, and strengthening
the contemporary technology politics movement, by discussing the lessons
that the Luddite uprising can teach us.
www.luddites200.org.uk
email: luddites200@yahoo.co.uk
Southwark
Notes
Whose regeneration? Regeneration and Gentrification in Southwark, South
London.
southwarknotes.wordpress.com/
Chartists.net
Chartism, the Chartist movement and the People's Charter: Chartist history
resourcs for family historians, social historians and political historians.
www.chartists.net/
The London
Nobody Sings
A site dedicated to songs about London. As simple as that. The only rules
are that the songs must be brilliant and that the blindingly obvious numbers
are excluded.
thelondonnobodysings.blogspot.com/
The Radical History of Hackney
An archive of radical publications, scanned in when time allows, relating
to the rebellious history of one of London's most troublesome, uppity and
generally insurgent boroughs.
hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/
Hackney Housing History Project
An oral history project connecting up past and present housing campaigns
and experiences in Hackney...
hackneyoralhistory.wordpress.com
email:voices.of.hackney@gmail.com
William Cuffay
blog
A great Australian blog on the life of Chartist rebel William Cuffay, who
was transported for plotting revolution in 1848 but continued his radical
activities down under.
http://www.cuffay.com/
York's Alternative History
A new site from a newish group, hoing to create a space where York's histories
of activism, protest and radicalism can be shared and debated. "A history
developed by all of us."
yorkalternativehistory.wordpress.com
Alsatia
A fascinating blog which has set out to investigate the old no-go area of
London known as Alsatia, and other similar ‘outlaw’ areas, their history,
context and meanings.
alsatia.org.uk/
Breviary Stuff
An independent publisher of radical history, working class history, history
from below.
www.breviarystuff.org.uk/
History Workshop
Online incarnation of veteran radical history network.
http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/
Women's History
Month
March is Women's History Month... Rejecting the male-centric view of history
with events, discussions and more from a feminist perspective.
http://womenshistorymonthuk.wordpress.com/
People's History
Month
...whereas these folk have nominated May as People's History Month,
focussing on English popular history... the website is really embryonic,
there are many things which are not on there yet. So please be patient,
and suggestions and participation are welcome.
http://www.peopleshistorymonth.co.uk/
Alliance of
Radical Booksellers
The recently reborn UK network of radical bookshops and other outlets for
radical publications.
http://www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk/
Freethought
History Research Group
Studying and celebrating historical atheists, anti-religious campaigners
and freethinking secularists.
http://freethoughthistory.wordpress.com/
Northern Radical
History Network
A netowrk of groups and individuals interested in, and engaged in discussing
and investigating, radical history in the North of England.
http://northernradicalhistory.wordpress.com/
Mary Quaile
Club
Regular discussions in Salford on working class history and its links with
contemporary political issues facing working people in Tory Britain.
http://maryquaileclub.wordpress.com/
Red Flag Walks
Taking radical history into the streets of Manchester
http://redflagwalks.wordpress.com/
Unfinished Histories
Recording the history of Alternative Theatre, 1968 -88, through interviews
and the collecting of archive material.
http://www.unfinishedhistories.com/
Radical Glasgow
Funky anarchist website with lots of Glasgow's great rebellious history.
http://radicalglasgow.me.uk/
LGBT history Blog
An occasional blog of our activities for theL esbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender History Project.
http://lgbthistoryproject.blogspot.co.uk
See Red Women's
Workshop
Covering the history of a groundbreaking feminist silk-screen poster collective
working in London, 1974-1990
https://seeredwomensworkshop.wordpress.com/
Stand Up and Spit: Tim Wells great blog dedicated to the ranting poetry of the 1980s.
Rebel Dykes: A rabble-rousing documentary and associated project, set in post-punk 1980s London about a community of dykes who met doing music, art, politics and sex and went on to change their world http://www.rebeldykes1980s.com
Working Class Movement Library: A museum and library collection of books, periodicals, pamphlets, archives and artefacts, relating to the development of the political and cultural institutions of the working class created by the Industrial Revolution, in Salford, Greater Manchester.