Browse Collections (127 total)

SLATE

To help promote its work and reduce dependence on the established professional press, NAM created its own newspaper SLATE. The editorial group met…

Public Design Group

Argued that it was only through the public sector that the majority of people could have access to the land and resources needed for housing,…

Professional Issues

A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing
as elected councillors on the Architects Registration…

Feminist Group

This developed a feminist agenda within the NAM critique. Alongside feminist consciousness
raising and other feminist political groups, women within…

Education

Many NAM members were engaged in the field of architectural education, either as staff or students, and
pursued new ideas for course content and…

Alternative Practice

This investigated other forms of organisation of architects' offices based around the concept
of cooperative working and shared equity. Several…

Altavista Arkive

Described as 'the bastard daughter of the Public Education System in Mexico' by its current principal, the Altavista Co-Operative Federal High School…

Dissenting Ephemera - 2000 - Present

Sharsted Self-Built Association

In 1993, ten families from the Southwark housing list were offered the chance to build ten houses on a shared ownership basis. The part they owned…

Contributors: Various

Kennington Park

Kennington Park's ‘hidden past’ is tightly linked with radical working-class history that pivoted on the Enclosure of Kennington Common in the…

Contributors: Various

Women's Liberation Movement

Anarchist Newspapers

London Radical Press

Politics of Organised Squatting

Contemporary Workers' Struggles

Class War

Troops Out Movement

The Troops Out Movement was formed in West London in 1973 by Irish solidarity activists. A campaigning organisation committed to bringing an end to…

56a Duplicates

A range of newspapers, pamphlets, and magazines have come to us from the 56a duplicates collection, including a set of picket sheets from the Wapping…

Dissenting Ephemera- Peter Maloney

Two boxes of material around radical architecture predominantly from the 1970s. The documents include materials produced by the Architects…

Psyche-Pol

The Psyche-Pol research project took place at MayDay Rooms in November 2013 and was initiated by Howard Slater and Tine Tvergaard and directly…

Women's Liberation Collection from WFA

WFA, or Workers Film Association, was established in early 1975, when a group of like-minded working people formed an independent collective based…

Campaign Against Racism and Fascism

A voluntary, non-politically aligned collective active in the anti-racist, anti-fascist movement between 1991 and 2003

For Peace!

Socialisme ou Barbarie

a set of journals belonging to the French libertarian socialist organisation- Socialisme ou Barbarie(SoB). SOB’s novel theoretical innovations greatly…

Algerian Resistance Newspapers

This collection contains two Algerian resistance newspapers, Revolution Africaine and El Moudjahid, both associated with the Front de Libération…

Peace News

Peace News (PN) is a pacifist magazine first published on 6 June 1936 to serve the peace movement in the United Kingdom. From later in 1936 to April…

The Occupied Times

The Occupied Times of London was founded during the first week of the protest occupation of land adjacent to St Paul’s cathedral in October 2011. The…