Join us for an online People's Papers research project workshop to learn about the history of 1970s alternative newspapers, their archival preservation & their continued relevance for today. All welcome! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-...

With @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social and many others!

Next up in the #Manchester Urban Film series, we're focusing on the city's contested music (and urban) histories. We'll be showing film + interview clips followed by a collective discussion. Learn more and sign up to join us on Sept 25th here: mancunianway.eventbrite.co.uk @cperguom.bsky.social

"Hookers, dykes and women of colour celebrate 50 years of making trouble & history" - Wed Oct 22 @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social: www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/act...

Sharing some reflections today at the CSE Midlands conference “Britain’s financialised capitalism & the politics of change”: csemidlands.wordpress.com

Want to hear more about some of the many alternative local newspapers (such as LOP) that sprang up around the UK in the 1970s and 1980s? If so, this online event might just be for you. Thanks to @feministcity.bsky.social, @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @cperguom.bsky.social, among others.

So much bad news, but this fall the Metro NY Library Cncl is launching the first iteration of its Cross-Reference Coalition, an experimental interdisciplinary school ft 17 participants from across NYC’s libraries, colleges + municipal depts, plus artists + designers. We’re exploring The Misfit.

Please join us for this upcoming CPE co-sponsored event later this Sept.

First @rgsibg.bsky.social session:

Save the date! Organizing an online “People’s Papers” workshop on Sept 30th to hear from projects in Leeds (@rememberlop.bsky.social), Liverpool and Birmingham: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-... @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

Proposals to “repair” or “restore” the planet therefore must answer the questions: Which ecosystems—and whose—will we repair and restore? Which—and whose—flourishings will we enable? What planet are we making, and for whom? @alybatt.bsky.social

New blog post with an update on the "People's Papers" archival research project up now on the @wcmlibrary.bsky.social website! wcml.org.uk/blog/a-peek-...

This Lou Kushnick syllabus on Race and Class from 1970s @uomsociology.bsky.social‬ in the Olive Morris's archive is amazing -- what a treasure trove of academic sources! Would absolutely have loved to take this class 😍 Anyone interested in a revival/reading group?!

So nice to get to chat with Tony Harcup about @rememberlop.bsky.social at the @wcmlibrary.bsky.social today! And thanks for the book donations 💞

New "People's Papers" blog post up on the @wcmlibrary.bsky.social website! wcml.org.uk/blog/a-blast... More on the project here: www.instagram.com/peoplespapers/

This iconic issue from Viewpoint Magazine is 10 years old this year ! Still so much to learn & appreciate in these many articles: viewpointmag.com/2015/11/02/i... (Would love to have some kind of collective reading/reflection event or discussion on publishing/political lineages if there's interest!)

Tonight at the #InterferenceArchive! I'll be sharing more about my research on (/obsession with) activist + grassroots newspapers from the 1970s both in the UK and also with a special focus on NYC: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

Chronic understaffing, unsafe ratios of children to staff, precarious conditions for young women in their first jobs: the nursery workers strike of 1984 has been largely forgotten. In this week's podcast, we talk to the people behind audio-series Nursery Workers Bite Back: www.historyworkshop....

The last screening of the Manchester Urban Film Series is coming up this Monday @wcmlibrary.bsky.social ! It’s on the topic of direct action and youth activism from the 1990s to today 📢 in collab w/ @globaljusticenow.bsky.social Manchester activists. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/undercurre...

Looking forward to getting into more archival research @wcmlibrary.bsky.social this summer as part of a @uom-humsdocacad.bsky.social PGR Placement. Exploring my fave topic of 1970s grassroots/activist newspapers 💓 Get in touch if you'd like to be involved! wcml.org.uk/blog/the-peo...

Issue 7.1 is live! 🥁 "Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-... #housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance

Great online talk today by @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk)! Such interesting and useful insights around fragments, ways of knowing and the urban www.ucpress.edu/books/fragme...

And another film to add! 1967 documentary "demonstrating how the formation of a food-buying club by a group of Newark welfare mothers brought about a necessary change in the community." archive.org/details/With...

Powerful keynote by Amrit Wilson on South Asian women’s activism and reproductive politics in the 1970s and 1980s at ‘Paths to justice: reproductive politics, activism & global solidarity’ workshop organised by @carolina-topini.bsky.social and @maudannebracke.bsky.social.

It's a big Wages for Housework day ! Very nice to get to talk with the Capital & Class / CSE Midlands group this morning about the archives and 1970s feminist spatial politics <3 Stay tuned for more of their upcoming events! csemidlands.wordpress.com

Next up! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-f...

Thanks to everyone who made it out last night! Highly recommend checking out the documentary Paradise Circus about Birmingham in the 1980s (it also includes interviews with the Matrix Feminist Design Cooperative too): vividprojects.org.uk/projects/par... via @vividprojectsuk.bsky.social

This Monday! Last few tickets left: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-night... With a great lineup of feminist academics and practitioners from @careaesthetics.bsky.social @OfficialUoM @manmetuni.bsky.social <3

Talking with the CSE (Conference of Socialist Economists 😍) Midlands group on May 21st! On the topic of: "Wages for Housework and beyond: Excavating a 1970s feminist spatial (counter)politics in New York City & London" csemidlands.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/w... w/ hopefully some good archive chats!

The Oxford Rent Cultures Network is hosting a screening and discussion of Nick Broomfield's brilliant documentary, Behind the Rent Strike, which charts the 1974 rent strike in Kirkby, Liverpool. Dr. Kerrie McGiveron will be joining us to introduce the film www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the...

Also save the date for another archival film night! The Political Economy Centre @uomsoss.bsky.social is hosting a screening + discussion of the 1976 Wages for Housework documentary, All Work and No Pay. More info + RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/archival-f...

Upcoming film night May 19th! As the fourth screening + discussion event as part of the Manchester Urban Film Series, we will be focusing on the topic of feminist urban planning past and present with a screening of the 1980s documentary Paradise Circus: www.eventbrite.com/e/film-night...

If you'll be in London next week, come chat about the (proposed) idea of "archival inquiry" at Mayday Rooms ! Hoping to bring together concepts & practices of "co-research" in relation to both archival labours and methods of historical research: maydayrooms.org/event/archiv...

Lots of amazing archival resources over on the Spokesman Books website! spokesmanbooks.org/product/spok...

"Who's got time for social reproduction?: Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city" - by Kristina Zampoukos, Olivia Butler and Don Mitchell (2024): uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.

Sharing some research at the @geographers.bsky.social conference today ! Would love to chat with anyone interested in social movement archives and feminist spatial politics: aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...

If you're going to be attending the @geographers.bsky.social conference this year, come join us for a mini archival history film screening! We'll be spotlighting Detroit's radical history and chatting about archival methods: aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...

Another potential archival history film screening ! 1972 documentary: "Holloway council tenants go to war with Islington Council over the provision of a playground for local children" www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKGx...

"The Anti-University, London 1968" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbi_...

Hackney Food Co-op 1973 documentary -- potential archival history film night screening in London? @cooperationtown.bsky.social

Realized I should mention this here—the collection of Lise Vogel’s essays I’ve been working on for the past two years. Lots of hard to find & out of print stuff, it tells the story of 50 years of Marxism & Feminism. “The Contested Domain” out this November w/ Pluto! www.amazon.com/Contested-Do...

"At a strategically important moment for the development of the feminist movement, Wages for Housework provided an alternative to the dominant feminist tendency to view entrance into wage labour as the key step on the path to women’s emancipation." www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Upcoming film screening @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social with the directors! Survival Without Rent: "following a vibrant community as they “illegally” squat abandoned buildings in the 1980s Lower East Side, a community for artists and activists forms." www.eventbrite.com/e/survival-w...

"Movement archives are not only repositories of communist history but can act as a way of constructing an inventory of the present movement... How then can the archive be structured to achieve this aim?" events.maydayrooms.org/e/49/archivi... 😍

Would be curious to engage some of these writings from the 1980s ! Seems like a really interesting and potentially overlooked series nowadays

"Take over the city" - reprinted/translated in Radical America Vol 7, #2 (1973)

"Sharing the children: village child rearing within the city" - Nora Harlow (1975) archive.org/details/shar...