Programme
We run a public programme including archival projects, publications, film screenings, “scan-a-thons” for digitising archival material, workshops, talks and discussion, reading groups, and social nights, all of which encourage active and collective engagement with history of social movements.
Upcoming & Recent Events
MoreElephant and Castle: a story of anti-gentrification struggles
Meet at 56a Infoshop, 56 Crampton St, London SE17 3AE The Elephant and Castle has been one of the epicenters in the squatting movement, counterculture and challenges to social cleansing […]
Rolling our own! Feminist Magazines and Women’s Liberation with Liberating Histories
From Spare Rib to Red Rag to Shocking Pink, activist periodicals of the 1970s-80s powered, connected and sustained the UK Women’s Liberation Movement. As the socialist-feminist magazine Scarlet Women put […]
Archival film night! 1970s childcare activism in London and NYC
Assembling together a variety of short documentary films from the 1970s, this event will highlight the often overlooked politics of and experiments with collective childcare historically and what reflections or […]
Exarcheia Anti-Gentrification Timeline Launch
Join us for the launch of the Exarcheia Anti-Gentrification Timeline – a project aimed at mapping anti-gentrification struggles that have happened in Exarcheia over the last three years. Recently, gentrification […]
HARRAGA! Archiving the experiences of small-boat migration across the Mediterranean and the English Channel
A talk by Ed Emery [Red Notes / SOAS] The decade-long experience of small-boat migration across the Mediterranean is known in North Africa as “harraga” – the burning of one’s […]