RegionalRadPress

UWEBristol project mapping the UK regional radical press 1968-88, the people involved and their communities

[Tony Harcup @writerlytone]

I wrote a few words about #KeithLomax and #LeedsOtherPaper for the latest @NUJ_Leeds branch newsletter ⬇️

[RegionalRadPress @RegionRadPress]

Fascinating launch and speakers for special issue of Radical History Review from @RevPapers looking at newspapers, mags and pamphlets across the Global South https://t.co/hW3YJ5m0Kr

[RegionalRadPress @RegionRadPress]

A Traveling Exhibition of Anticolonial Journals is on display at @SOAS from
Nov 7-11. It features reproductions of the covers of leftist anti-colonial and anti-imperial periodicals from the 20th century. The exhibition is part of the @RevPapers project.
https://t.co/Q1FYAkZwsA

[Tony Harcup @writerlytone]

Somehow it's November already which means this talk is THIS month - book now if you are interested. It's free.
#LeedsOtherPaper #AlternativePress #LeedsHistory #Journalism #Thoresby #LeedsLibrary
https://t.co/z3TA2g4p2b

[RegionalRadPress @RegionRadPress]

Looking forward to attending

[Revolutionary Papers @RevPapers]

Don't miss the much awaited Johannesburg launch of the @RadHistReview Special Issue - Revolutionary Papers: Anticolonial Periodicals of the Global South - and the year-long @africasacountry Online Series on papers of the radical left.
17:00-18:30 Tomorrow, Nov 1st @ Wits Uni!

[RegionalRadPress @RegionRadPress]

@RevPapers @africasacountry By chance I will be at the Wits University next week attending @AIJC_Conference and so looking forward to dropping in on this event.

[Northern History @NorthernHist]

Registration is open for The Radical North, 1779–1914: A Symposium in Memory of Malcolm Chase (29/11, Leeds)!

This free event has 3 panels of papers exploring aspects of radicalism, a roundtable discussion & a book launch.

Register here: https://t.co/BawfUdL9ZZ

Please repost!

[WCML @wcmlibrary]

Who were Big Flame?

In this blog post, our Big Flame Project Researcher, Seth Wheeler ( @sethnotes ) explores the roots of the revolutionary organisation, Big Flame.

Follow the link to read more.

https://t.co/FRsn1Aw5Fh

[Revolutionary Papers @RevPapers]

JOIN US IN JOBURG NOVEMBER 1 for a @revolutionarypapers Project launch of a special issue on Anticolonial Periodicals of the Global South with @radicalhistoryreview and 13 part series on papers of the African left with @africasacountry hosted by the Wits History Workshop
!!!!!

[NUJ Leeds & West Yorks @NUJ_Leeds]

One of the founders of #LOP was #KeithLomax who joined the @NUJofficial as soon as he started to get a wage from journalism and became an officer of our branch, putting in lots of hard and unglamorous work. He died this year and is remembered with love and solidarity.

[Tony Harcup @writerlytone]

Anyone with an interest in the #AlternativePress and/or #Leeds local history might like to know that tickets are now available for this talk on #LeedsOtherPaper at @theleedslibrary in November - and it's free ↘️⬇️↙️
https://t.co/Cs6zr5y7BH

[RegionalRadPress @RegionRadPress]

Anyone with an interest in the alternative press should get this date in their diaries. Tony Harcup (@writerlytone) on Leeds Other Paper

[Tony Harcup @writerlytone]

Anyone with an interest in the #AlternativePress and/or #Leeds local history might like to know that tickets are now available for this talk on #LeedsOtherPaper at @theleedslibrary in November - and it's free ↘️⬇️↙️
https://t.co/Cs6zr5y7BH

[Tony Harcup @writerlytone]

In honour of #BannedBooksWeek at @leedslibraries, the Secret Library blog has reproduced an illuminating list that was revealed by #LeedsOtherPaper in the 1970s.
https://t.co/6GQ8KgVRrl

[Northern History @NorthernHist]

On 30 November 2024, a blue plaque to commemorate the Northern Star newspaper will be unveiled in Leeds. There is a crowdfunding campaign to support this project. Please repost!

https://t.co/oQm6j9Zgvg

[RegionalRadPress @RegionRadPress]

Just came across this paper from Dr Tom Crook from Oxford Brookes on the first two decades of @PrivateEyeNews. Well worth a read https://t.co/hT72VS10tG

[Twentieth Century Communism journal @20C_Communism]

The 'Battle of Lewisham' occurred on this day (13 August) in 1977 when anti-fascists and local activists marched to prevent the National Front holding a demo in the borough.

A scan of the issue of 'Flame' celebrating the anti-fascists can be found here: https://t.co/vglHcKUOlh

[Rodney Marshall @RodneyMarshall1]

Summer 1972. The first edition of Spare Rib magazine is published. Flying in the face of stereotype images of feminists in UK & US popular press, Spare Rib was great fun, managing to combine incisive journalism with witty humour. It dared to be different & tackle taboo subjects.

[Dic Penderyn 🇵🇸🦇🦎 @PenderynDic]

#spycops
'Gone with the Wind' (Ronald Reagan; Margaret Thatcher)
by Bob Light, and by John Houston, printed by East End Offset Ltd, published by Socialist Workers Party

[Tom Fowler @tombfowler]

Trevor Morris claims that there was an informer in East End Offset, either put there by Special Branch or the Security Services. Says he didn't write the reports about the print shop, says he didn't know that "Bea" worked there #spycops

[RegionalRadPress @RegionRadPress]

Worth checking out this extensive 🧵from @tombfowler at the @ucpinquiry about undercover #spycops. It turns its attention to infiltration of the Freedom Press

[Tom Fowler @tombfowler]

The Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) will today hear about the infiltration of Freedom Press during the early 1980s, when a police #spycops officer was apparently searching for links between the British radical left and Northern Irish republicans. Steve Sorba, Secretary of the Friends of Freedom Press, will give evidence on behalf of Freedom.
https://t.co/3IuihHQPac