Found in the Bibby archives - free to a good home!
Just found - untouched for 20 years - the early Radstats newsletters.
======== Highlights from No. 1:
Introductory sentence (with unaccustomed modesty):
"This is the first issue of Radical Statistics Newsletter, and we very
much hope that it won't be the last...." (I guess this was penned by the
humble hand of Liz Atkins - it sounds too modest for JB!)
Telegraphic reviews by JB included a quote from Ted Joans (sadly deceased
last month - I met him in Timbukto and Algiers, but all our planned meetings
in England came to nought")
"noughts are noughts
figures are figures
all for the white man
nothing for the niggers
That is one of the first things that Black Power must rectify" (Ted Joans,
"A Black Manifesto in Poetry and Prose")
====== I even have the original letter dated 14/1/1975 (my, what a hoarder!)
inviting people to a meeting at LSE on the 30th - which proved to be
RadStats' inaugural meeting.
I'd like you to know that these early meetings had immense discussions about
what tghe name of the group should be. No agreement was reached, so "Radical
Statistics" was adopted as a TEMPORARY name.
How glad I am that temporary things last as long. (... and that permanence
is so transient!)
======= I looked in vain for the RadStats "colour supplement" (printed on
tinted paper - colour supplements were the latest novely then in the
broadsheet Sundays); I also could not find our celebrated "Bargain offer -
one year's membership ?3; three years for ?10" - as one sympathiser said
"Nobody but RadStats could make an offer like that and get away with it!".
(We did - it sold well.)
========= My most worrying moment - when David Cox said to me "Radical
Statistica has been around for so long now, it's almost a part of the RSS!".
He meant it as a compliment of respectability. I feared for our future and
still do.
Sorry to have rambled
I need to get rid of these things - what should I do with them.
JOHN BIBBY
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