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- Category Is Books
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- eco-logicbooks.com
- Five Leaves Booshop
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- Housmans Bookshop
- Hydra Books
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- Letterbox Library
- Lighthouse Books
- Lockdown Books
- New Beacon Books
- Newham Bookshop
- News from Nowhere
- Northern Herald Books
- October Books
- PaperxClips
- People's Bookshop
- Portal Bookshop
- Printed Matter
- Quaker Center Bookshop
- Reading International Solidarity Centre
- Red Hound Books
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- Rubicund
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Subject: Radical Bookselling History Newsletter 6
Radical Bookselling History Newsletter6 is now out – a bumper edition. You can download it from here, or by clicking the image above. (Note – we expect the Newsletter to be uploaded later today so if you get an error … Continue reading
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Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2022 Winner Announcement TIME:29.11.2022 : 18:00 – 19:00 FEATURED SPEAKERS Koshka Duff, Florian Grosset, Hsiao-Hung Pai, Rhian E Jones & A Contributor To Empire’s Endgame The Bread and Roses Award is a book prize with a difference: presented … Continue reading
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Quiet Revolutions: A Celebration of Radical Bookshops, Sat 26 Nov 2022, Barbican Library
Join us as we host a book fair, discussions and workshops exploring the legacies and futures of radical bookselling. Radical bookshops, once found in every major town and city, are spaces of possibility and resistance, offering quiet browsing, public discussions … Continue reading
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2 New ARB shops! Back To Books in Birmingham, and PaperxClips in Belfast
More inspiring news as two more bookshops join the ARB! Back To Books in Birmingham aims to provide a platform for diverse voices, with a focus on queer, feminist, anti-racist and Birmingham-centric titles. The shop can be found at Red … Continue reading
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New bookshop The Queery in Brighton joins the ARB!
“The Queery is a co-op in Brighton, UK, owned and run by its members, whose main focus is the benefit of the local queer community. It’s run in a non-hierarchical way by different collectives of volunteers, with solidarity at its … Continue reading
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New Beacon Books joins the ARB
We are delighted that New Beacon Books, specialists in African and Caribbean literature since 1966, have joined the ARB! Following a crowdfunding campaigns in January 2022 New Beacon are currently considering their next step so as to keep the shop … Continue reading
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Nine new bookshops join the ARB!
Its very cheering to see so many new radical bookshops not only opening but thriving. We’re happy to announce nine new members of the ARB, with the latest member Lockdown Books literally opening its doors for the first time today … Continue reading
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How best to buy books online and support independents
With bookshops closed for much of the last year many of us have turned to online book-buying. New platforms such as hive.com and bookshop.org have sprung up as rivals to Amazon and some independent booksellers have their own online sales … Continue reading
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‘Changing the world, one book at a time’
Ross Bradshaw, activist, publisher and writer, was recently invited to Haarlem in The Netherlands to speak about radical bookselling. He knows his trade, which is why Nottingham’s Five Leaves Bookshop, which he founded in 2013, was named Independent Bookshop of … Continue reading
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Dorset Radical Bookfair
Back for its third year – anarchy in the sticks! Full details here:https://dorsetbookfair.wordpress.com
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