Browse Collections (127 total)

Situationist Miscellany

Radical Philosophy

Latin American Workers Association- LAWAS

The Latin American Workers Association was based in London and active in two phases the early 1980s and then 2002-13. Many of its activists went on to…

Spare Rib

Spare Rib was probably the most widely disseminated magazine of the Women’s Liberation Movement during the 1970s and 1980s. As part of a magazine…

Radical and Militant Poetry

Dissenting Ephemera - Catherine Pozzo di Borgo

A small collection of materials mainly relating to the English situationists, ‘King Mob’, and the LSE occupation in early 1969. The collection…

Anti Globalisation Protests and related

Two collections comprising materials from Kevin Biderman and Nicola Kirkham. They include documents, ephemera, and film from the anti-globalisation…

J18

Two collections comprising materials from Kevin Biderman and Nicola Kirkham. They include documents, ephemera, and film from the anti-globalisation…

Subvertising

A number of large and beautiful political posters, most of which have been flyposted in the advertising spaces on bus stops and on the tubes. The…

Student Movement 2010-11

The most controversial policy of the first year of the coalition government was the raising of tuition fees to £9000 per year for undergraduate…

Lucas Plan

In 1974 the management of Lucas Aerospace, an engineering firm that manufactured aircraft components for both military and civilian use, announced…

Women's Liberation Collection from WFA

Housing Struggles

More materials have been added to our Housing Struggles archive as part of our HLF-funded project. The collections include paper and digital archives…

Housing Struggles 1975-1991

This collection was deposited with MayDay Rooms by Jane Foot, ex-member of East London Big Flame. It mainly includes material from CASE UK (Campaign…

Resurgence (1969-1971)

Resurgence Magazine was founded by John Papworth, Leopold Kohr, E. F. Schumacher, and Herbert Read in 1966. The magazine described itself as a…

Sue and Crispin Aubrey

Chroma Journal

Chroma was an queer literary journal that ran between 2004 and 2010, publishing poetry, prose and visual artwork. It’s content included work by over…

Organised Sqautting 1968- 2012

This is a collection that Chris Jones, resident at MDR, created based on his research on the politics of organised squatting in London from 1968 to…

Jewish Socialist

Irish Struggles after 1968

A small collection of Republican ephemera from the late 1960s and 1970s during the first years of the troubles. These include an extremely rare nearly…

Contributors: Jenny Earle

Dissenting Ephemera 1970s - Ed Emery's Collection

Housing Struggles Digital Collection

More materials have been added to our Housing Struggles archive as part of our HLF-funded project. The collections include paper and digital archives…

Wheeler's Dealings

Dissenting Ephemera - Ed Rosen

10 boxes of materials, spanning from the late 1960s through to the late 1980s. This collection includes rare British Situationist ephemera, including…

Dissenting Ephemera - Hermione Harris

A complete run of Race and Class, along with other pamphlets produced by the Institute of Race Relations, sit alongside six boxes of ephemera, which…

Dissenting Ephemera - Keir Milburn

a box of issues of Solidarity, as well as a number of items from the Swansea section of Solidarity, of which Milburn’s father was a member. The box…

Dissenting Ephemera - Steve Graby

Dissenting Ephemera - Roy Perry

Big Flame

Named after a play by Liverpudlian writer, Jim Allen, Big Flame started out in the early 70s as a rank and file newspaper that gradually developed…

Black Struggles

A modest collection of material relating to Black Struggle in the UK includes copies of Race Today and Race & Class which were both offshoots of a…

Cinema Action

Cinema Action was among several left-wing film collectives formed in the late sixties. The group started in 1968 by exhibiting in factories a film…

Dissenting Ephemera – Alex Bird

A collection of magazines and pamphlets. These include materials from the 1960s through to the 1990s, and range from communist and anarchist…

Dissenting Ephemera – Crispin Aubrey

A large number of issues of Time Out, Private Eye, and City Limits – publications on which her late husband Crispin Aubrey worked – from the 1960s…

Dissenting Ephemera – Housmans

A large collection of ephemera was donated from the basement of Housmans Bookshop. While this collection remains unsorted at present, it includes a…

Dissenting Ephemera – Maurice Herson

A collection of 1970s ephemera. This includes an extremely rare short run of the Newcastle alternative paper Muther Grumble from 1971-1972, alongside…

Dissenting Ephemera – Seth Wheeler

Seth Wheeler has deposited two boxes of materials. Some of this collection is personal papers regarding social movements during the cycle of struggles…

Dissenting Ephemera – Steve Graby

A collection of radical ephemera, including pamphlets and journals. This collection comprises mainly anarchist materials produced the mid-2000s to the…

Dissenting Ephemera – Tom Woolley

A collection of seven boxes of materials, including a large personal collection of documents relating to the student movement between 1968 and 1970…

Eco Anarchist Collection

Nine boxes of international eco-anarchist journals from the 1990s were donated to the archive by activists who used to run the magazine “Do or Die”.…

Ed Emery Ford Struggles Collection

Thirteen folders of archives of struggles that took place at the Ford Dagenham plant between 1969 and the 1990s. This is one of the most comprehensive…

Ford Struggles

A small collection of materials from workers struggles at Ford Dagenham plant from the 1960s through to the 1970s

The Film & Photo League

From 1934 to 1935 the (Workers’) Film & Photo League represented a grass-roots manifestation in Britain of the Communist International’s cultural…

GLC story

”The GLC Story” project has deposited several boxes of publications and documents from the radical years of the GLC between 1981 and 1986. This…

Greenline Magazine

A complete run of 36 issues of Greenline Magazine, which Jon published between 1982 and 1985. These magazines document the early years of the radical…

Haringey Solidarity Group (HSG)

Haringey Solidarity Group (HSG) started life as the Anti-Poll Tax group in Haringey. Once the Poll Tax was defeated most Anti-Poll Tax groups around…

Jewish Socialist Magazine

A full run of Jewish Socialist Magazine, the journal of the Jewish Socialist Group. The group, which formed in Manchester in the mid-1970s has…

The Leveller Magazine

Between 1975 and 1985, The Leveller, an editor-less magazine, managed to sustain an independent left journalism that drew together professional and…

Race Today

The magazine Race Today was set up in 1969 by the Institute for Race Relations (IRR). Following a break from the IRR four years later, publication…

New Architectural Movement

Trade Unions and Architecture

Themes included action on asbestos and Health & Safety, and involvement with Direct Labour Organisations and Building Unions. Following comparative…