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Radical Bookshops In The United Kingdom
Radical bookshops in the United Kingdom offer and promote activist and countercultural literature for browsing and purchase on topics including animal rights, environmentalism, postcolonialism, self-help, and sexual politics. The shops also serve as venues for activist meetups, book launches, lectures, and other events for similarly inclined people to discuss social issues. History In the 1980s, there were about 80 radical bookshops in the United Kingdom, which ''The Guardian'' described as the prime age of radical bookshops. The Federation of Radical Booksellers was set up in the 1980s to support radical bookshops but has dissolved. The contemporary Alliance of Radical Booksellers has about 40 members. Despite a rapid decline in independent bookshops leading into 2010, rising grassroots activism from climate activism, the antiglobalisation movement, the green movement, and the feminist movement contributed to resurgent interest in radical bookshops. Amazon (company), Amazon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavender Menace Bookshop
The Lavender Menace Bookshop was an independent gay bookshop in Edinburgh from 1982 to 1986. It was the first gay bookshop in Scotland and the second in the United Kingdom. As of 2019, the Lavender Menace now operates as The Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive. As a blog and pop-up bookshop, it preserves rare, out of print queer books and ephemera through physical and digital archiving efforts. History Origins The Lavender Menace Bookshop began as a bookstall called Lavender Books in the cloakroom of Fire Island gay disco on Princes Street, Edinburgh. The name of the stall was taken from the Lavender Menace radical lesbian feminist collective which was active during the 1970s. On 21 August 1982, founders Bob Orr (bookseller), Bob Orr and Sigrid Nielsen opened the Lavender Menace Bookshop in the basement of 11a Forth Street. In the first 10 days of being open, the bookshop took nearly £1300 of sales, despite homosexual acts (between two men aged at least 21 years) having b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Moon Bookshop
The Silver Moon Women's Bookshop was a feminist bookstore at 68 Charing Cross Road in London, England, founded in 1984 by Jane Cholmeley, Sue Butterworth, and Jane Anger. Redclift and Sinclair (1991) p. vii, They established Silver Moon Bookshop to promote women’s writing, serve a community of readers and encourage discussion of women’s issues. The shop served both as a safe space for women to participate in literary events and a resource centre to learn about local feminist initiatives. Jane Cholmeley and Sue Butterworth also founded Silver Moon Books, publishers of lesbian romance and crime fiction. In Autumn 1986 Sue Butterworth created the shop’s newsletter ''Silver Moon Quarterly,'' reaching out nationwide and internationally. In 1989, Silver Moon Bookshop won the Pandora Award for "contributing most to promoting the status of women in publishing and related trades". In November 2001, Silver Moon won the Pink Paper Award, sponsored by The Mike Rhodes Trust, “fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Independence Party
The UK Independence Party (UKIP, ) is a Eurosceptic, right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. The party reached its greatest level of success in the mid-2010s, when it gained two members of parliament (both through defections) and was the largest party representing the UK in the European Parliament. The party is currently led by Nick Tenconi, the COO of Turning Point UK. UKIP originated as the Anti-Federalist League, a somewhat single-issue Eurosceptic party established in London by Alan Sked in 1991. It was renamed ''UKIP'' in 1993, but its growth remained slow. It was largely eclipsed by the Eurosceptic Referendum Party until the latter's 1997 dissolution. In 1997, Sked was ousted by a faction led by Nigel Farage, who became the party's preeminent figure. In 2006, Farage officially became leader and, under his direction, the party adopted a wider policy platform and capitalised on concerns about rising immigration, in particular among the white B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupa Huq
Rupa Asha Huq (born 2 April 1972) is a British Labour politician, columnist and academic. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Central and Acton since 2015. Early life and education Rupa Huq was born on 2 April 1972 in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Hammersmith, and grew up on Brunswick Road in Ealing. Huq's father, Muhammad Huq and mother, Rowshan Ara Huq, moved to Britain in 1962 from East Pakistan. Huq's father came from Maksedpur in Pabna and her mother from Kuthipara in Pabna. Huq's father was training to become an actuary for Prudential, but gave that up to open an Indian restaurant in Soho, London. After the recession of the early 1990s, the council did not renew the restaurant's lease so the business folded. He opened another restaurant in Harrow and later retired. Huq attended Montpelier Primary School in Ealing. In 1980, at the age of eight, Huq was featured in the BBC Schools programme '' Look and Read'' when the programme visited the school. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lammy
David Lindon Lammy FRSA (born 19 July 1972) is a British politician who has served as Foreign Secretary since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham since 2000. Lammy previously held various junior ministerial positions under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown between 2002 and 2010. Born in Archway, Lammy attended The King's School, Peterborough. He studied law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and was called to the bar in 1994. He later studied for a Master of Laws degree at Harvard University, becoming the first black Briton to study at Harvard Law School. In 2000, Lammy briefly served in the London Assembly before being elected to Parliament in the 2000 Tottenham by-election. Tony Blair appointed him Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health in 2002 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs in 2003. He was promoted to Minister of State for C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
56a Infoshop
56a Infoshop is a Self-managed social centres in the United Kingdom, self-managed social centre, archive, and shop based in Elephant and Castle, Southwark, London. Its collection centres around left and far-left materials including information on anarchism, Gentrification, anti-gentrification, to squatting. History 56a Infoshop was founded in 1991 initially as a Squatting, squat and a Self-managed social centres in the United Kingdom, self-managed social centre. From here, it eventually had to accept an agreement in 2003 to pay a "peppercorn" rent by Southwark London Borough Council, Southwark Council to remain functional within the area. Services The infoshop offers mixed, volunteered services from selling books, Book swapping, book exchanges, free bike workshops, squatter workshops, free meeting spaces, and an open-access archival collection. Collection 56a Infoshop's collection of over 50,000 items (2021) focuses on collecting Left-wing politics, left and Far-left politics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
