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, 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... have recently published 'To the Castle!', a cracking book on the 1831 Reform Riots in Nottingham. 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

Lost Steps
A weekly radio show that explores London through it's art, literature, film, music, history, culture, myths and legends.
www.loststeps.org/

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 blogon the life of Chartist rebel Williasm Cuffay, who was transported for plotting frevolution in 1848 but continued his radical activities down under.
http://www.cuffay.com/