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
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Anti-Fascist Archive Is this online only?
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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:
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
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
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