Last blog post now up @wcmlibrary.bsky.social ! wcml.org.uk/blog/wrappin...

A small number of spaces are left - book now to guarantee your place! Free one-day conference on the history of coal communities, health and welfare, featuring academic researchers, heritage organisations, and community and campaign groups. Find out more: warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

A century ago today, Britain was brought to a standstill as the General Strike began. In our latest blog, Dr Janette Martin explores its impact on Manchester, drawing on material from The Guardian Archive at the John Rylands Library to reveal how the city responded: https://ow.ly/GsoL50YUiVR

"The history of London's squat cafes: Chaos in the Streets. Order in the Kitchen" ! Chris (56a Infoshop) on squat cafes and their discontents (😍) in @vittles.bsky.social: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Such a rich archival history on film (and great programming from the NY Public Library!)

"Documents the PAH’s strategy for building the power of ordinary people to tackle Spain’s eviction crisis. . . . an inspirational resource." —@amandatattersall.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social YES, IT'S POSSIBLE! BUILDING POWER FROM BELOW by @fedivers.joao.cat and the PAH Available Now! 👇

Great online discussion today with Paul Gilroy and Adam Elliott-Cooper thanks to the Soundings Journal -- looking forward to the continued series! "Antiracist Organizing, Policing, and the GLC in 1980s London" www.eventbrite.com/e/antiracist...

The Past Tense stall at the always fabulous Bristol Radical History Festival. Talks, walks, stalls and exhibitions & more All day today at M Shed, Princes Wharf, Bristol BS1 4RN Tomorrow: The Cube BS2 8JD

Great to see such in-depth coverage of Needle!! Definitely worth a read: wellcomecollection.org/stories/pati...

Join us this Wednesday for the next instalment in our Salon series—The Northern Art Workers’ Guild: An Untold Story. Authors Barry Clark and Richard Fletcher will reveal the story of a community of artists, architects, and makers who shaped Manchester. 🎟️ Book here: bit.ly/4tFn1JX

#CFP: BRN Conference 2026: Spaces of Bookselling: "invites papers exploring the multiplicity of trajectories within which bookselling operates—and which are, in turn, created by bookselling spaces" via the Bookselling Research Network: booksellingresearchnet.uk/events/brn20... <3

In August 2025, our editorial collective spent an afternoon exploring the contents of the History Workshop archive held @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social 🗃️ Marybeth Hamilton, Elly Robson, Mary Katherine Newman, Marral Shamshiri, Vivien Chan and Beckie Rutherford reflect on their radical findings.

Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. Date: May 4, 2026 Time: 6-8pm Location: Proshansky Auditorium, The Graduate Center, CUNY www.eventbrite.com/e/we-know-it...

Offering a few talks and workshops in Binghamton, Montreal, Chicago, and Online this spring (with more dates and details to come) and tabling with @commonnotions.bsky.social. Check it out: www.readingstruggles.info/post/spring-...

A Brief History of the Workers’ Inquiry out now on @commonnotions.bsky.social. Pick up a copy here: www.commonnotions.org/buy/brief-hi...

Susana Caló & Godofredo Pereira join Adam Greenfield on Lifepod to discuss CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. lifepod.transistor.fm/s1/5 From collective psychotherapy to desire, transversality & institutions as processes. Listen now 🔗 available on all the usual podcast places

"'There’s a kind of freedom that’s present in being an artist that allows for inquiry,'.. Embedded within municipal departments, PAIRs occupy unusual positions as temporary bureaucratic agents — or infiltrators — who make systems more visible, translate civic life, and advocate for change."

This National Poetry Month we share 'It Dread inna Inglan' by GPI Trustee Linton Kwesi Johnson, written as part of a campaign to free George Lindo, a wrongly convicted Jamaican-born man in Bradford in 1978, and which Linton recited on the steps of a police station in Bradford during the campaign.

Left on the Shelf remains a key resource for anyone interested in labour history. Find out more about new owner Mark Thwaite's plans for the store. sslh.org.uk/2026/04/07/l...

“Workers’ inquiries are identifying working-class self-activity in various sectors, understanding the class struggle from the working-class point of view, and allowing workers to develop their own knowledge of how their work is organized.” @NewPolMag newpol.org/using-worker...

New 1926 General Strike map online! Using early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, the online resource shows strike events (through archive sources) in their contemporary landscape. Explore the map, digitised sources and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

One of the country's finest libraries of books on town planning and housing policy - the Harry Simpson Memorial Library, currently located in Wisbech - is at risk of being pulped. Please publicise and support the campaign to save it. davemnt.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/a...

The book is a "compendium of... the unfinished + abandoned projects that have languished in notebooks, memories + email drafts—presented with unsentimental retrospection. It’s perhaps fitting that the only formal catalogue raisonné of Calle’s work documents this negative space..."

The Worker Issue is an ode to the hidden labors—and laborers—that make our world go round. Learn about the daily work of rapid responders, caregivers, and grant writers; hear from an incarcerated worker, a neon sign maker, and many more. Read here: https://southsideweekly.com/the-worker-issue/

We need radical imagination to fight fascism and reclaim our world! Join us to celebrate the launch of Project 2052: a website of revolutionary speculative fiction and art set in the world of EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE!

Our recent talk which explored the histories and materials of black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s and was chaired by Arielle Lawson @peoplespapers.bsky.social, with intro by GPI Archivist Sarah Garrod, is now available to view on YouTube: youtu.be/of9E5E-hpqs?...

"All through the 1970s there were books coming out that made me examine what it was to be a woman." Celia Burgess-Macey's account of her joining a consciousness raising group in Islington in the seventies. Read her article for a brilliant 1970s reading list! howl-uk.org/my-first-con...

“The Internet Archive is not outside history, nor beyond contradiction. But it offers a terrain closer to what these books have always been doing: building archives of the present for futures that are not yet decided.” 🤩🥰

Call for Papers New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field Workshop to assess the current state of research on the New Left. Cfp for an event to be held in November at QMUL. Info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

📣Launch Event Friday 10 April 15:30! Join us for a library tour & archive workshop, introduction to the Group, food & drinks and a social event at Working Class Movement Library in Manchester during @britsoci.bsky.social Conference. DM us or email [email protected]. Details below👇

This was an excellent event from @peoplespapers.bsky.social and @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social on the Black Radical Press in England in the 1970s - including activists and archivists both. Lovely stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9E...

#OtD 7 Mar 1942 Lucy Parsons, African-American anarchist, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (@IWW), and powerful orator for women, working people, and political prisoners died in a house fire. More about IWW women in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...

The Minor Compositions Podcast began on Firefly Frequencies as a kind of semi-clandestine radio experiment. Now, all 42 episodes of Season One are available everywhere. We don’t need more heroes. We do need more conversations. Listen, share, conspire.

"This exhibition reframes women’s work, showcasing + celebrating the organizing labor that enabled groundbreaking film, video + community media collectives like Third World Newsreel, Paper Tiger TV, + Women Make Movies to pursue new forms of self expression and advocate for political change..."

1975: "Publisher and political activist John La Rose addresses invited guests at the opening of the new premises of Bogle—L‘Ouverture Bookshop." archive.org/details/ldpd... More on radical bookselling history: www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk?page_id=713

People's films: archive.org/details/ldpd...

1970s NYC: "the radical sports center is involved in developing an anti-capitalist critique of sports, recreation and parks administration..." Spotted in the City Star 💫

Today, February 21, 2026, is the 178th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and is celebrated around the world as #RedBooksDay. Read a red book today!

Today's the day! Join us online at 3pm (UK time): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w... with @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social @irrnews.bsky.social @ethnicityuk.bsky.social. Hope to see you there!

Tomorrow! Last chance to sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

Join us on 19 Feb as we explore the archives and examine the Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain. Hear Leila Hassan Howe (Race Today), Nigel De Noronha (CoDE) and Sophia Siddiqui (Institute of Race Relations) with GPI's Sarah Garrod. Chair Arielle Lawson. Free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

Come up next week! Online archival workshop on "the Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain" organized in collaboration with the @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social and @irrnews.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

A new category on the Radical Online Archives and Collections page is academic organisations, with the online collections of Radical Philosophy and Union of Socialist Geographers Newsletter listed. Any other suggestions of similar organisations/journals welcome! hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

A chain of memory - 2026-1976-1945 50 years ago 'Gladrag', magazine of Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, looked at 'Gays and Fascism'. The last of the Nazi concentration camps had been liberated 31 years earlier. The aims & context of Gay Lib - for the L, G & T - were set out inside. #LGBTplusHM

Harry Haywood's Negro Liberation Join @wakerevolt.bsky.social and Kyle T. Mays as they celebrate the new edition of a major work in the Black Communist tradition by worker-intellectual Harry Haywood. Monday, February 9th at 4 PM ET RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

Lots of great books, including free ebooks from us and @haymarketbooks.org, on the @literaryhub.bsky.social guide on what to read to understand the ICE phenomenon.

How has the History Workshop Journal collective sustained its commitment to radical history over fifty tumultuous years? Two HWJ veterans, Sally Alexander and Jeffrey Weeks, sat down to share their memories with @beckierutherford.bsky.social and @inoutofpractice.bsky.social🎙✊🏻

Save the date! Join us for an online archival workshop with @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social and @irrnews.bsky.social to explore the materials and histories of Black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

There's still time to join us at the Annual George Padmore Institute Lecture on 5 February. This free event will reveal the hidden story of a key player in Jamaica's history. Frank Hill was a journalist, activist and as noteworthy as contemporaries such as CLR James. Details 👇

Abolish ICE. Abolish the border. Abolish the police. A better world is possible if we fight for it.