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Listening Event: No Fear! An oral history project on the Student Movement (2010-2012) with MayDay Rooms and On the Record.
Listening Event: No Fear! An oral history project on the Student Movement (2010-2012) with MayDay Rooms and On the Record.
Celebrating our newly trained Oral Historians! Over 8 sessions, the No Fear! cohort were equipped with archival resources and oral history training to build a new archive representing the experiences and insights of historic and current student activists both here in London and abroad. In light of recent waves of protests and encampments across universities […]
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Archiving from Below Discussion Series: All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History From Below
Archiving from Below Discussion Series: All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History From Below
In All Knees and Elbows, published in 2012 Tom Roberts and Anthony Iles attempted to recover and politically and critically survey the work of historians contributing to practices of reading and writing 'history from below'. If we articulate the 'below' as populated by creatures marked by material processes of differentiation through race, class and gender, then […]
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Archival Film Night for LGBTQ+ History Month: The Archivettes (2019)
Archival Film Night for LGBTQ+ History Month: The Archivettes (2019)
When a group of women in the Gay Academic Union founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives in the mid-1970s, they did so in explicit recognition that lesbian herstory ‘was disappearing as quickly as it was being made.’ For over fifty years, through many major milestones in LGBTQ+ history, this entirely volunteer-run organisation has quite literally […]
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Big Flame: Building the Movements, New Politics
Big Flame: Building the Movements, New Politics
Join us for an evening with ex-Big Flamers Max Farrar and Kevin McDonnell, who will be discussing their new book, Big Flame: Building the Movements, New Politics, published by Merlin Press. The libertarian socialist organisation Big Flame (active roughly between 1970 and 1985) is notable for its attempt to synthesise the concerns of the women’s […]
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Archiving from Below Discussion Series: Archiving as a communist inventory? with Agit Press
Archiving from Below Discussion Series: Archiving as a communist inventory? with Agit Press
Sooner or later everything gets recuperated by our political enemies. Despite their warnings even the situationists were unable to escape this fate. Obviously, we don't give up on militant ideas despite their capture, however we do need to take account of practices and tactics that we inherit from past movements, so as to assess their […]