Kind of ironic that "Hackney, that Rose-red Empire", the book that Hackney
banned from being launched on its premises, is now the BBC's "Book of the
Week":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/book_week.shtml
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From: Library and Information Professionals
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alan Fricker
Sent: 24 October 2008 09:17
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Subject: Re: Author banned in Hackney [library] - for going off-message
about the Olympics
Hello all,
The ban on Iain Sinclair speaking appears to be a unfortunate decision.
The original article was an interesting read though one that perhaps
over romanticised some fairly rough and depressing parts of town.
As someone living and working in and around the area I have to point out
that a large part of the site was going to be redeveloped into Stratford
City regardless.
www.newham.gov.uk/Services/RegenerationProjects/AboutUs/stratfordcity.ht
m
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford_City
Without the Olympics this would then doubtless have rolled on and over
the rest of the area. As it is there will be an altogether more
interesting transformation.
I am looking forward to the Olympics and Paralympics that follow.
Then again I enjoyed a trip to the dome.
The cultural Olympiad was launched last month - what place for
libraries?
Cheers
Alan
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From: Library and Information Professionals
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Sent: 23 October 2008 17:23
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Subject: Re: Author banned in Hackney [library] - for going off-message
about the Olympics
surely we do still have the freedom of speech, cant we get totally
annoyed about the huge charade of the Olympics,the drugs, the
insincerity, the waste and the cost of it all, without being banned from
a library, which should be all about freedom of access to information
and freedom to speech (within the limits of sensible comment i.e. not
racist etc)
The area sounds very evocative and reminiscent of Dickens.
f
Frances Hendrix
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From: "Woodley Zena (RQ8) Mid Essex Hospital" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "'Frances Hendrix'" <[log in to unmask]>;
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Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:23 PM
Subject: RE: Author banned in Hackney [library] - for going off-message
about the Olympics
Heard the broadcast (keen R4 listener; I know: sad). Seems more a case
he was off-message about the blessed Olympics. Hence the pressure from
the Rose-Red Empire.
For those who aren't locals, the river Lea area was always the "rubbish
bin"
of London. I went on a Walk (@9 years ago) with a friend not long after
moving to London: even in medieval times, rubbish was carted to this
area, & it was hoped the tides would make it disappear. But I loved the
semi-wildness of it; and the faintly louche & disreputable characters.
Sinclair's 'error' was to tell the reader exactly what is happening with
the much-vaunted 'Olympics'. Personally, I believe it to be a licence to
- once again - screw the taxpayer. Only it'll be London householders
who'll suffer, not the rest of the country. And I don't recall the vote
which asked me if I wanted the blessed rigmarole. A curse on all
politicos, sporting or otherwise, say I! When my revolution comes,
they'll be first against the wall.....
Z
Zena Woodley, B.A.(Joint Hons), MCLIP
Library Resources Manager ~ Warner Library~ Broomfield Hospital~
Chelmsford~CM1 7ET
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From: Library and Information Professionals
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Sent: 23 October 2008 14:58
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Subject: Re: Author banned in Hackney [library] - for going off-message
about the Olympics
If any part of this story is in any way true it is a sad reflection on
society today and the library being used in this way.
also very worrying if the local collection has been reduced to a carrier
bag, but is this the case, or a case of the staff not knowing. Hackney
used to have some superb collections and archives, so I hope these have
been maintained.
Shame on the Council, and long live controversy, and maybe an apology
should be issued and the invite re instated.
the world has gone mad, and the silence of the lambs of DCMS, MLA and
Cilip is deafening. (of course nothing to do with them) f Frances
Hendrix Martin House Farm, Hilltop Lane, Whittle le Woods, Chorley,
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Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: Author banned in Hackney [library] - for going off-message
about the Olympics
Here is the offending article http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n12/sinc01_.html
The Olympics Scam Iain Sinclair
Cheers
Alan
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From: Library and Information Professionals
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Sent: 23 October 2008 08:54
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Subject: Re: Author banned in Hackney [library] - for going off-message
about the Olympics
I heard this when it was first broadcast on the radio. I thought I heard
the term 'carrier bag' used to describe what remained of the local
history....
Who said the Stasi aren't alive & working their magic nowadays? It
almost makes me glad to be in Tower Hamlets...
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[mailto:LIS-PROFESSION@JISCMAIL..AC.UK] On Behalf Of Mark Perkins
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Subject: Author banned in Hackney [library] - for going off-message
about
the Olympics
Banned in Hackney - for going off-message about the Olympics
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/22/hackney-library-book-ban>
Iain Sinclair. The Guardian, Wednesday October 22 2008
A warning to any innocent Hackney writer: question the coming triumph of
the
2012 Olympics and, like me, you could achieve the dubious glamour of
becoming a banned author.
A year or so ago I was allowed into the library in Stoke Newington, east
London. I was part of a panel celebrating a raft of local authors, from
Harold Pinter to Patrick Wright, by way of Alexander Baron. A small and
enthusiastic audience moved our discussion from past to present - and
the
knowledge that, just down the road in the council offices, a wall of
surveillance screens had been positioned in a secure basement to monitor
the
renegade comings and goings of the borough. Some of the funding for this
Orwellian system was coming straight out of library funds and the rest
from
council taxes.
Hackney Libraries invited me to come back in February 2009 to launch a
book
I had been working on for more years than I care to remember: Hackney,
That
Rose-Red Empire. I was happy to accept, believing that a work
researched,
contrived and constructed in this place should have its first reading
right
here. A small return on my part for 40 years of madness and inspiration,
painting the white lines of football pitches on Hackney Marshes or
trawling
for used books in Kingsland Waste Market.
Then, last Friday night, I had a call to say sorry, but the invitation
was
withdrawn. It seemed a diktat had come down from above that I was a
non-person and should be barred from the library for the crime of
writing an
off-message piece on the Olympics. This essay, published in the London
Review of Books, responded to aspects of the creation of the Olympic
Park in
the Lower Lea Valley: the destruction of the Manor Garden allotments,
the
eviction of travellers, and the famous "legacy" revealed as nothing more
than a gigantic shopping mall in Stratford.
The essay had very little to do with the book I was invited to launch.
Challenged, the council shifted its ground: I was controversial.
Controversy
was not allowed in libraries. There could, presumably, be no discussion
of
stem-cell research or Afghanistan. And Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
fell
into that category. A conclusion Hackney was miraculously able to reach
without reading a line of a book that won't be published for another
three
months.
While researching my memoir, I walked back to the Stoke Newington
Library
and asked for the local history section. They told me that there wasn't
one.
History had been declared redundant. All that was left were half a dozen
pamphlets in a box kept under the desk.
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