Hi all,
I hope this event is of interest to some people.
Best,
Diarmaid Kelliher
University of Glasgow
Sites of Resistance: Radical Bookselling
A free discussion event
Tuesday 9th February 2016, 6.30-8pm
Marx Memorial Library, London EC1R 0DU
This meeting is organised by the Applied History Network (http://appliedhistorynetwork.wordpress.com/) in association with the Raphael Samuel History Centre. It is free to attend but please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sites-of-resistance-radical-bookselling-tickets-19725713139.
The 1970s saw a peak in the numbers of bookshops dedicated to providing access to alternative publications covering the growing anti-racist, LGBT+ and feminist movements, amongst others. Many of these bookshops also acted as meeting places and support centres for new and established groups, and offered a template for encouraging further grassroots and community activism and campaigning. More recently, the numbers of these vital “sites of resistance” have closed due to increasing rents, funding cuts, the growth of online bookstores and competition from larger bookshops.
Although bookshops have been a core element of campaigns, as a subject this seems to have been neglected by researchers and historians of social history. Key questions that we will cover are: has the internet already filled the space left by these important centres? What is the future of activism and campaigning? And the future of radical bookshops?
Speakers:
Sarah Garrod - Archivist, George Padmore Institute
Nik Gorecki - Co-ordinator, Alliance of Radical Booksellers and co-manager of Housmans
Ken Worpole - Author
Rosa Vilbr - Oral historian and founder of On the Record
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