It’s cover reveal time! And time that I start sharing more about the upcoming book Some Things Don’t Burn. #independentjoirnalism #alternativepress #1970s
#bugleamerican
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"one of the most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded". #alternativepress
#OnThisDay March 5, 1️⃣9️⃣7️⃣1️⃣ #NickDrake released his 2nd album, 'Bryter Layter'.
#musicsky #70smusic
cover for Nola Express newspaper,
November 1979
archived by Geoff Kaplan @geoffkaplan
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#GDHistory
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#CivilRights
The Rag, vol. 2, no. 20, 1968
archived by Geoff Kaplan @geoffkaplan
#peoplesGDarchive
#GDHistory
#alternativepress
Duncan Campbell was a veteran of the #AlternativePress before he joined @theguardian.com - it was a good place to learn the trade. RIP Duncan.
#AlternativePress seemed to be too hyped about new #SleepToken material that they forgot to complete the newsletter template 🤭.
Our latest newsletter is here—featuring the launch of Retrofuturista Magazine with interviews with John Higgs, Mark Dery, Osees, The Gits, Roedelius, Venamoris, Lawrence English, plus the latest releases on the site. #ArtZine #AlternativePress #postpunk #indiemusic
web.emsnd.net/4f2eaca8-1c8...
Front page of LOP 76 (17 March 1978) headline - Women have a fair. Photo of IWD fair at Leeds Corn Exchange.
Front page of LOP 100 (16 March 1979) headline - National women's march in Leeds. Photo of women playing saxophones.
LOP 100 p 11 headline - Violence against women. Report and pics from the women's march in Leeds.
Pic of IWD fair in 1978 as featured in LOP's 1979 Calendar.
These days #InternationalWomensDay seems to have become quite an established thing. Not so much in the 1970s, but #LeedsOtherPaper was there to cover it anyway. This from LOP in 1978 and 1979 ⬇️
#IWD #IWD2025 #WomensHistory #AlternativePress
Trump says Americans could feel ‘some pain’ from his new tariffs that are triggering a trade war
#tariffs #trump #america #Usa #bluesky #bsky #noteworthy #whitehouse #flipboard #alternativepress
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Anyone interested in the UK's local #AlternativePress that sprang up from the 1960s will love this. The site doesn't seem to be added to often, but it remains a valuable resource for insights into local histories as well as different ways of doing journalism ⬇️
radpresshistory.wordpress.com
Anyone interested in #AlternativeJournalism, especially the UK's 20th century #AlternativePress, might like to know that I've just started a feed dedicated to keeping the memory of #LeedsOtherPaper alive. Anyone interested in #Yorkshire history might like it too:
@rememberlop.bsky.social
Alternative Press Music Awards poster 2014 #alternativepress