some other radical history groups,
libraries and archives
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
brhmob@brh.org.uk
www.brh.org.uk
Radical History Network of North East London
http://Radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com
c/o PO Box 45155 , London , N15 4WR
email: radicalhistorynetwork@gmail.com
Wor Diary
Excellent day to day diary listing radical events and anniversaries for every day of the year from England's North East.
www.wordiary.org
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 relatively new local group... Their newsletter is online at http://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/peoples_histreh_newsletter_feb_2010.pdf
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