{"id":100,"date":"2011-11-28T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/?p=100"},"modified":"2013-11-23T17:23:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T17:23:05","slug":"latest-member-of-the-arb-open-new-bookshop-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Latest member of the ARB open new bookshop in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A group of people around the Bristol Radical History Group<\/a> have opened up a new radical bookshop in Bristol called Hydra Books.<\/a> Bristol has been without a good dissenting bookshop for a while now, and it’s great to see a new bookshop opening, especially in the face of the usual wave of bad news about the state of the booktrade. Whatsmore, the ARB is now one more member stronger!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They’re off to a flying start, with shelves stocked and a packed programme of events already booked up into the new year. \u00a0As part of the launch day event anarchist activist Ian Bone told tales of some lesser-known revolutionary figures from days gone by – there’s a nice write up of the event from Bristol blog Upside Down in Cloud here<\/a> (from which the pictures in this post are taken – thank you). Ian Bone has written about it on his blog too, also well worth a click: All Hail The Hydra<\/a>, and there’s even a video of Ian’s talk here, which includes an introduction by Roger, one of the shop’s founders :
\nSo if you are ever in Bristol please do pay them a visit – or if you are in any position to help spread news of their existence then please do so. \u00a0Their website is \u00a0www.hydrabooks.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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