Join us this Wednesday for the next instalment in our Salon series—The Northern Art Workers’ Guild: An Untold Story.
Authors Barry Clark and Richard Fletcher will reveal the story of a community of artists, architects, and makers who shaped Manchester.
🎟️ Book here: bit.ly/4tFn1JX
#CFP: BRN Conference 2026: Spaces of Bookselling: "invites papers exploring the multiplicity of trajectories within which bookselling operates—and which are, in turn, created by bookselling spaces" via the Bookselling Research Network: booksellingresearchnet.uk/events/brn20... <3
In August 2025, our editorial collective spent an afternoon exploring the contents of the History Workshop archive held @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social 🗃️
Marybeth Hamilton, Elly Robson, Mary Katherine Newman, Marral Shamshiri, Vivien Chan and Beckie Rutherford reflect on their radical findings.
Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses.
Date: May 4, 2026
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Proshansky Auditorium, The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Offering a few talks and workshops in Binghamton, Montreal, Chicago, and Online this spring (with more dates and details to come) and tabling with @commonnotions.bsky.social. Check it out: www.readingstruggles.info/post/spring-...
A Brief History of the Workers’ Inquiry out now on @commonnotions.bsky.social. Pick up a copy here: www.commonnotions.org/buy/brief-hi...
Susana Caló & Godofredo Pereira join Adam Greenfield on Lifepod to discuss CERFI – Analysis Everywhere.
lifepod.transistor.fm/s1/5
From collective psychotherapy to desire, transversality & institutions as processes.
Listen now 🔗 available on all the usual podcast places
"'There’s a kind of freedom that’s present in being an artist that allows for inquiry,'.. Embedded within municipal departments, PAIRs occupy unusual positions as temporary bureaucratic agents — or infiltrators — who make systems more visible, translate civic life, and advocate for change."
This National Poetry Month we share 'It Dread inna Inglan' by GPI Trustee Linton Kwesi Johnson, written as part of a campaign to free George Lindo, a wrongly convicted Jamaican-born man in Bradford in 1978, and which Linton recited on the steps of a police station in Bradford during the campaign.
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Left on the Shelf remains a key resource for anyone interested in labour history. Find out more about new owner Mark Thwaite's plans for the store. sslh.org.uk/2026/04/07/l...
“Workers’ inquiries are identifying working-class self-activity in various sectors, understanding the class struggle from the working-class point of view, and allowing workers to develop their own knowledge of how their work is organized.” @NewPolMag newpol.org/using-worker...
Map of Britain made from early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps. It includes pins which link to digitised documents and links to a timeline.
New 1926 General Strike map online!
Using early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, the online resource shows strike events (through archive sources) in their contemporary landscape.
Explore the map, digitised sources and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
One of the country's finest libraries of books on town planning and housing policy - the Harry Simpson Memorial Library, currently located in Wisbech - is at risk of being pulped. Please publicise and support the campaign to save it.
davemnt.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/a...
The book is a "compendium of... the unfinished + abandoned projects that have languished in notebooks, memories + email drafts—presented with unsentimental retrospection. It’s perhaps fitting that the only formal catalogue raisonné of Calle’s work documents this negative space..."
The Worker Issue is an ode to the hidden labors—and laborers—that make our world go round.
Learn about the daily work of rapid responders, caregivers, and grant writers; hear from an incarcerated worker, a neon sign maker, and many more.
Read here: https://southsideweekly.com/the-worker-issue/
promotion for the launch of project 2052 at pilsen community books in chicago. saturday march 28 2026
We need radical imagination to fight fascism and reclaim our world!
Join us to celebrate the launch of Project 2052: a website of revolutionary speculative fiction and art set in the world of EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE!
Our recent talk which explored the histories and materials of black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s and was chaired by Arielle Lawson @peoplespapers.bsky.social, with intro by GPI Archivist Sarah Garrod, is now available to view on YouTube: youtu.be/of9E5E-hpqs?...
"All through the 1970s there were books coming out that made me examine what it was to be a woman." Celia Burgess-Macey's account of her joining a consciousness raising group in Islington in the seventies. Read her article for a brilliant 1970s reading list! howl-uk.org/my-first-con...
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“The Internet Archive is not outside history, nor beyond contradiction. But it offers a terrain closer to what these books have always been doing: building archives of the present for futures that are not yet decided.” 🤩🥰
Call for Papers
New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field
Workshop to assess the current state of research on the New Left.
Cfp for an event to be held in November at QMUL.
Info here
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmul.bsky.social
📣Launch Event Friday 10 April 15:30! Join us for a library tour & archive workshop, introduction to the Group, food & drinks and a social event at Working Class Movement Library in Manchester during @britsoci.bsky.social Conference. DM us or email asmrstudygroupbsa@gmail.com. Details below👇
This was an excellent event from @peoplespapers.bsky.social and @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social on the Black Radical Press in England in the 1970s - including activists and archivists both. Lovely stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9E...
#OtD 7 Mar 1942 Lucy Parsons, African-American anarchist, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (@IWW), and powerful orator for women, working people, and political prisoners died in a house fire. More about IWW women in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...
The Minor Compositions Podcast began on Firefly Frequencies as a kind of semi-clandestine radio experiment. Now, all 42 episodes of Season One are available everywhere.
We don’t need more heroes.
We do need more conversations.
Listen, share, conspire.
"This exhibition reframes women’s work, showcasing + celebrating the organizing labor that enabled groundbreaking film, video + community media collectives like Third World Newsreel, Paper Tiger TV, + Women Make Movies to pursue new forms of self expression and advocate for political change..."
"Finally Got the News" in the Liberated Guardian, Nov 25, 1970: rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/7...
1975: "Publisher and political activist John La Rose addresses invited guests at the opening of the new premises of Bogle—L‘Ouverture Bookshop." archive.org/details/ldpd...
More on radical bookselling history: www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk?page_id=713
People's films: archive.org/details/ldpd...