Radical Libraries

UK based

• 1 in 12 Club Library – Bradford
• 56a Infoshop Archive – 56 Crampton Street, London
• Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust Library – University of Manchester hosted

• Anti-Fascist Archive Is this online only?

• Archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Bodleian

• Anti-Slavery Library (see also)
• Bishopsgate Institute: Includes Feminist Library Pamphlet Collection, Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive, etc.
• Black Cultural Archives
• Brighton and Hove TUC Unemployed Workers Centre [probably more of these?]
• Canny Little Library – Newcastle
• Child Poverty Action Group library
• Commonweal Collection – Bradford University and also archives
• Conway Hall Library – Red Lion Square, London
• Cowley Club Library – Brighton
• Edward Carpenter Collection – Sheffield Archives
• The Feminist Library
• George Padmore Institute Archive – Materials relating to Black experience
• Glasgow Women’s Library
• HJ Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection – University of Manchester
• Institute of Race Relations, Black History Collection
• The Itinerant Poetry Library
• Kate Sharpley Library
• Kebele Radical Library – Bristol
• Labour History Archive and Study Centre – People’s History Museum, Manchester
• Leicester Secular Society Library
• Marx Memorial Library
• Papers of the Anti-Slavery Society – Bodleian Library
• Peace Pledge Union Archives
• Pitchfork Anarchist Library – Bristol. Needs checking.
• South Wales Miner’s Library – assoc. Swansea University
• The Sparrow’s Nest Library – Nottingham
• Sumac Centre – Nottingham
• TUC Library – London Met hosted, see also
• Warwick University Modern Records Centre – Coverage: trade unions, pressure groups, individual papers
• Vegetarian Society Archive
• Weiner Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
• Women’s Library (London School of Economics) – Formerly London Met hosted
• Working Class Movement Library – Salford

UK Community Public Libraries run with an activist/radical ethos (formerly occupied)

• Friern Barnet Community Library (Formerly Friern Barnet People’s Library)
• New Cross Learning (Formerly New Cross People’s Library) – includes a curated section of the collection called ‘Books to Change the World With’

UK Popup Infoshops:

• Library Street Community Centre Colorama, Elephant and Castle (evicted)
• Social Centres Network Been and gone but inspirational
• St Paul’s Occupy, Tent Library

International Radical Libraries:

• Alternative Libraries –  Montreal
• CIRA
• International Institute of Social History – Amsterdam
• Occupy Wall Street Library
• Prelinger Library
• Solidarity Revolutionary Center & Radical Library

 Online Radical Libraries/Archives:

• Archive Time
• Internet Archive
• Open Library
• UK Web Archive

 Networks & Resources (national & global):

• Association of Independent Libraries – Any radical ones here?
• BiS – Sweden
• Community Archives Hub – potentially useful things here?
• Information for Social Change
• Library Juice Academy
• NORLA (Network of Radical Libraries and Archives) (no longer operative)
• Occupy Libraries & Archives News
• Occupy Your Library
• Progressive Librarians Guild- US
• Radical Reference
• Rural Librarians Unite
• Urban Libraries Unite

Publishers

• Library Juice Press

Other stuff?

Leadhills Miner’s Library interesting historically?

Mass Observation archive Hosted University of Sussex

Northern College – do trade union studies here, and I’m sure they have union banners etc, but not sure