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Radical Bookshops in the UK – Interactive Map
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- 56a Infoshop
- A Sceptic's Bookshelf
- Active Distribution
- AK Press and Distribution
- Andrew Burgin
- Aye-Aye Books
- Back To Books
- Bookhaus
- Bookish Type
- Bookmarks
- Calder Bookshop
- Calton Books
- Category Is Books
- Connolly’s Wee Bookshop
- Cowley Club
- Dreadnought Books
- eco-logicbooks.com
- Five Leaves Booshop
- Freedom
- Gays The Word
- Housmans Bookshop
- Hydra Books
- Just Books
- La Biblioteka
- Left on the Shelf
- 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
- Round Table Books
- Rubicund
- Shelflife Books and Zines
- Soma Books
- The Feminist Bookshop
- The Queery
- The Second Shelf
- Veggies
Bookfairs
- Bradford Anarchist Bookfair
- Bristol Anarchist Bookfair
- Cambridge Radical Bookfair
- Cardiff Anarchist Bookfair
- Derry Radical Bookfair
- Dorset Radical Bookfair
- Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair
- Liverpool Anarchist Bookfair
- London Anarchist Bookfair
- London Radical Bookfair
- Manchester Anarchist Bookfair
- Nottingham Radical Bookfair
- Rhyddical-Swansea Bookfair
- Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair
- Swindon Radical Bookfair
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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 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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Radical Bookselling History Newsletters
In 2019 we – Dave Cope, John Goodman, Rick Seccombe and Maggie Walker – organised a conference on the history of radical bookselling 1970-2000. Our aim was to celebrate the phenomenon of radical bookshops and begin to assess their impact, … 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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New member: Connolly’s Wee Bookshop in Carlisle
A new member to the Alliance is Connolly’s Wee Bookshop, run by Christopher Connolly. Christopher used to jointly run The Besotted Wretch in Sheffield but the rent was too much to survive so he has started again inside Carlisle’s historic … Continue reading
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Help repair the Cowley Club
ARB member The Cowley Club in Brighton is a much-loved, long-established and well-used co-operatively run bookshop, cafe, social center and music venue. Their building is over a hundred years old, and is facing some costly and urgent repairs. They need … Continue reading
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New ARB Member: Quaker Centre Bookshop
The Quaker Centre Bookshop is based in Friends House, Euston Road. Our stock is informed by Quaker faith and work, with books on peace, social justice, anti-racism, politics, LGBT rights, activism, ecology, feminism and religion and spirituality, as well as … Continue reading
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Help October Books to Buy a Bank!
October Books, Southampton’s only independent bookshop, is buying a bank! We’re borrowing funds directly from the community to buy the Natwest building on Portswood Road in Southampton. The aim is to create not only a new home for the bookshop, … Continue reading
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