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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, record their history and preserve what records remain. We invited as many people as we could trace who\u2019d worked in the 100 or so radical bookshops and distributors that existed over that period, plus a few who were still in the much-reduced trade. In February 2020 we published an illustrated report of the conference in pdf format. It is DOWNLOADABLE HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference we undertook to produce an occasional newsletter. In this post you will find an archive of these newsletters. We hope you enjoy reading it. Its future depends on your reactions and what you send us. We need snippets of news, queries, notes about any existing appropriate websites, blogs, archives, obituaries, publications, short biographies, notes on bookshops, reviews, works in progress and so on. Information on new shops would be most
welcome. While the emphasis will be on bookshops we welcome material on publishers, distributors, printers, typesetters, designers, cartoonists, photographers, libraries and archives. As well as below, an archive of the newsletters can also be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Newsletter Issue 11, November 2025<\/strong>
CONTENTS
Editorial
Left on the Shelf change of ownership and new RBH website
News items, old items, obits and odd bits
Radical Bookshops map launched
Bookselling as Resistance?
\u2018The Way We Wrote\u2019 1969\u20131989 12
Attacks on Radical Bookshops 19
Contents listing: Radical Bookselling
History Newsletters 1 (2020) \u2013 10 (2025)
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Newsletter Issue 10, June 2025<\/strong>
CONTENTS
Editorial
News items, old items, obits and odd bits
Rick Seccombe
Recollecting Ira O\u2019Flaherty
And Now I\u2019m an Author
The Radical Bookseller 1979-1992

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Newsletter Issue 9, December 2024<\/strong>
CONTENTS
Editorial
Rick Seccombe 1950-2024
News items, old items, obits and odd bits
Radical Bookselling records and archives
Not Dead Yet
Bookfairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Newsletter Issue 8, May 2024<\/strong>
CONTENTS
Editorial
News items, old items, obits and odd bits
A Bookshop of One\u2019s Own: How a group of women set out to
change the world
Remembering Third World Publications
The Alliance of Radical Booksellers, a brief history
William Hone 1780-1842 30

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Newsletter Issue 7, December 2023<\/strong>
CONTENTS
Housmans Book Launch 16 September 2023
In Praise of Housmans
The Bookselling Research Network
Mudlark Secures Cholmeley\u2019s Silver Moon Bookshop Memoir
Just Books, Belfast: A Tentative History
Sisterwrite Womens Co-operative Bookshop
Oakleaf: The Story of a Radical Bookshop
Federation of Alternative Bookshops and Federation of Radical Booksellers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Newsletter Issue 6, May 2023<\/strong>
CONTENTS
Editorial
Quiet Revolutions 2022
Bookshop Stories
News items, old items, obits and odd bits
Review: Queer Print in Europe
Producing an Archive of Grass Roots Books (1971\u20131990)
Grass Roots Books 1971\u20131990
Moved to Draft: Writing and Publishing a Wikipedia Entry
The Revolution Will be Published
Anarchist Papers, Publishing and Bookshops: An Introduction

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Newsletter Issue 5, November 2022
<\/strong>CONTENTS
Editorial
News items, old items, obits and odd bits
Left Cultures
Print, Pixels, Pride
Trigger Warning
Corner Bookshop Leeds
Communist Party Bookshops

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Newsletter Issue 4, May 2022
<\/strong>CONTENTS
Editorial
News Items, Old Items, Obits and Odd Bits
Mushroom Book Events Remembered
A Bookshop For All – Newham Books
William Cobbett 1763-1835
The Radical Internet Of Its Day: The Story of PDC part 2

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Newsletter Issue 3, October 2021 <\/strong>
CONTENTS
Editorial
Publications Distribution Co-operative: The Early History
A PDC Day \u2013 Repping in Birmingham
PDC \u2013 A Bookseller Remembers
My Time at The Independent Bookshop \u2013 Sheffield
Richard Carlile 1790-1843
Trouble at Mushroom
Review: The Radical Bookstore: counterspace for social movements
Bits and Bobs
News and Links
Obituaries

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Newsletter Issue 2, April 2021
<\/strong>CONTENTS
Editorial
Buying New Books Online
News Items, Old Items, Obits And Odd Bits
Obituaries
Collets
Days Of Hope
Books About Radical Bookshops
Housmans: 60 Years Of Books And Activism
In Other Words
Grass Roots

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Newsletter Issue 1, August 2020
<\/strong>CONTENTS
\u2022 Editorial
\u2022 Photographs
\u2022 Oral histories
\u2022 Records and archives
\u2022 Bookshops listing
\u2022 Bookshop (and distributor) histories
\u2022 New items, old items, obits and odd bits
\u2022 Branching out
\u2022 Thomas Spence: A history<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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