RADICAL HISTORY NETWORK (RaHN)

Monday, December 10, 2018

Latest from Sparrows' Nest: Anarchy 90 and more

Additions to the Digital Library and Document of the Month
As our final Document of the Month for 2018, we have chosen another publication from 1968 (see also the People's Histreh blog regarding the various activities we were involved with to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Revolts). This issue of the first series of Anarchy was until very recently not yet part of our collections, thanks again for the generous donation that filled that gap. Published shortly after the events in Paris, it discusses the involvement of students in the revolts in various parts of the world:

Anarchy (First Series) 090 Vol:08 #08, 1968

"Bulky [house sparrow] nest, probably from multiple broods"

"Nest Description: Loose jumble of odds and ends..."

Please see below a list of all the materials we have recently added to the Digital Library. This time we have a number of issues of Anarchy (First Series) and a lot of issues of Black Flag. These will be the last additions we will make in 2018.

Thanks again to RedMoleRising for the generous loan of digitising equipment and many thanks to everyone who has donated to and accessed our collections during this busy but exciting year at the Nest!

... We shall be back in January. Anything we can do for you in the meantime, please do not hesitate to get in touch!
All the best
A Sparrow

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*Anarchy* (First Series) 008 Vol:01 #08 (Rescan)
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/7085.pdf>

*Anarchy* (First Series) 018 Vol:02 #18, 1962

http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8483.pdf>

*Anarchy* (First Series) 022 Vol:02 #22, 1962
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8484.pdf>

*Anarchy* (First Series) 031 Vol:03 #09, 1963
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8485.pdf>

*Anarchy* (First Series) 061 Vol:06 #03, 1966

http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8486.pdf>

*Anarchy* (First Series) 062 Vol:06 #04, 1966

http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8487.pdf>

*Anarchy* (First Series) 074 Vol:07 #04, 1967
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8488.pdf>

*Anarchy* (First Series) 090 Vol:08 #08, 1968
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8489.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:05 #01, 1977
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8490.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:05 #02, 1977
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8491.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:05 #03, 1978

http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8492.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:05 #04, 1978

http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8493.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:05 #05, 1978
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8494.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:05 #06, 1978
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8495.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:05 #07, 1978
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8496.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:05 #08, 1979

http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8497.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:05 #10, 1979
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8498.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:05 #11, 1979
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8499.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:05 #12, 1979
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8500.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:05 #13, 1980
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8501.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:06 #01, 1980
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8502.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:06 #02, 1980

http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8503.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:06 #03, 1980
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8504.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:06 #05, 1980

http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8505.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:06 #06, 1981
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8506.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:06 #07, 1981
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8507.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:06 #08, 1981

http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8508.pdf>

http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8539.pdf>

"Black Flag* Vol:07 #06f (#118), 1984
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8540.pdf>

"Black Flag* Vol:07 #07a (#119), 1984
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8541.pdf>

"Black Flag* Vol:07 #07b (#120), 1984
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8542.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:07 #07c (#121), 1984
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8543.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:07 #07d (#122), 1984

http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/8544.pdf>

*Black Flag* Vol:07 #126
http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/1574.pdf>

Ollman, Bertell: *Class Struggle - Play it like it is... but more so*,
1978<http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/1574.pdf>

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Thursday, December 6, 2018

Spycops in context: new reports from the Centre for Crime and Justice

Update on previous posts, from email:

Forwarded for information...

Spycops in context: new reports from the Centre for Crime and Justice

Over the past year, I have been based at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies on a Research Fellowship sponsored by the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn trust. As part of that, I have been researching undercover policing. The Centre is today publishing two papers I have written as part of this Fellowship, under the title Spycops in context.

As you may know, from 1968-2008 a dedicated police unit, the Special Demonstration Squad, sent officers into a range of political movements and organisations, from anti-racist to animal rights groups. In the 2000s a second squad, the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, expanded the practice nation-wide.

While the practice was exposed in 2010, there has not been much discussion on the longer history of British political policing, and why the state carried out these operations. Why did the state seek to infiltrate a wide range of radical and activist organisations over a prolonged period?

In the Spycops in context papers, I argue that undercover infiltration was just one method used by the secret state to monitor, limit and undermine deep dissent against the status quo. Enforcing and constituting hierarchical social relations, the state’s political policing apparatus functions to preserve a social order based on inequalities of race, gender and class.

One of the papers, Spycops in context: a brief history of political policing in Britain, offers a historical overview of the secret state’s concern with political dissent, from the late eighteenth century to the early twenty-first.

The other, Spycops in context: counter-subversion, deep dissent and the logic of political policing, analyses the political-economic logic motivating the state’s surveillance and infiltration operations against radical and activist movements.

You can download both papers here:
https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/spycops-in-context.

Please forward these on to anyone you think might be interested. These papers will primarily be spread through social media and personal contacts.

I hope they will be useful to journalists, campaigners and anyone seeking to understand the history, role and purpose of undercover policing in recent British history.

Research Fellow | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Call for Papers: Oral History @ Work: Recording Change in Working Lives

CfP: Work - Recording change in working lives

The Oral History Society (in association with Llafur and Britain at Work) will be holding its

2019 annual conference at Swansea University
on the subject of 'Oral History @ Work: Recording Change in Working Lives'.

The conference will take place on 5-6 July 2019

at University of Swansea,Singleton Campus.

We are currently seeking proposals for conference papers (closes on 14 December 2018).

Note on proposals

The deadline for submission of proposals is 14 December 2018.

Each proposal should include::

a title, an abstract of between 250-300 words,
your name (and the names of any co-presenters, panellists, etc),

your institution or organisation, your email address, and a note of any particular requirements.

Most importantly your abstract should demonstrate the use of oral history or personal testimony

and be directly related to the conference theme.

Proposals that include audio playback are strongly encouraged.

Proposals should be emailed to the Oral History @ Work conference Administrator,

Polly Owen, at polly.owen@ohs.org.uk.

They will be assessed anonymously by the conference organisers,

and presenters will be contacted in January/February 2019.

Further information on the conference can be found here:
http://www.ohs.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/OHSconf2019_CfP_web-1.pdf

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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Little Rebels Award: Latest Press Release

Update: award for radical children's fiction

Key things are:

1) submissions are now open for the 2019 prize!

2) we have a new judge

3) the previous winner, Zanib Mian, has gone on to secure a 3-book deal and a Carnegie nomination!

Submissions for the 2019 Little Rebels Award are now open.

The Little Rebels Award celebrates children’s books for readers age 0-12 which promote social equality and social justice. The prize is administered by booksellers Letterbox Library and Housmans Bookshop on behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers. Publishers are invited to submit relevant books first published in 2018. Full submission guidelines can be found at www.littlerebelsaward.wordpress.com.

The closing date for nominations is January 30^th 2019.

The shortlist will be announced in April 2019 with the wining announcement in early July.

The 2019 judges are: award-winning YA author, Patrice Lawrence; B.J.Epstein, Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia; Darren Chetty, Teaching Fellow at University College London; Emily Drabble, Head of Children’s Book Promotions/Prizes at BookTrust. This year, the judges will be joined by Shaun Dellenty, Former Deputy Head, trainer in LGBT+ inclusive education and author of Celebrating Difference: A whole-school approach to LGBT+ inclusion (forthcoming: Bloomsbury May 2019).

Shaun Dellenty said, “I am looking forward to being a Little Rebels judge! Ten years of work in LGBT+ inclusion in education has proved the urgent need for a wide range of representative and inclusive children’s fiction that promotes social justice, equality and compassion for human diversity. We must nurture schools in which young people can bring curiosity to their own responses and reactions to diversity; high-quality texts are a vital stimulus for these potentially life changing conversations.”

Winner of Radical Children’s Fiction Prize Clinches

Book Deal and Carnegie Nomination

The winner of the Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’sFiction 2018 has been nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal. Zanib Mian’s The Muslims was published by her own indie publishing company, Sweet Apple Books, in October 2017. Since winning the Little Rebels Award, Zanib Mian has gone on to secure a three-book-deal with Hachette Children’s Group.

Speaking about the success of The Muslims, Zanib Mian said, “Winning the Little Rebels Award catapulted me to places I never dreamt of getting to, in my career! Thanks to the spotlight the award brought - and of course, the support from the amazing panel of judges and the organisers - my book found its way into the hands of people who may not have otherwise discovered it, which led to me signing an agent, securing a 3-book deal with Hachette Children’s Group, being shortlisted for the UKLA awards and nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal!”

Press Release Contact:

Fen Coles

info@letterboxlibrary.com

Letterbox Library

Unit 151 Stratford Workshops

Burford Road

Stratford E15 2SP

Tel: 020 8534 7502

Further Information

About the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award

The Little Rebels Award is given by the ARB and was established in conjunction with Letterbox Library. Full details of the award, including the shortlist and prize giving ceremony for previous years, can be found at: www.littlerebelsaward.wordpress.com.

About Letterbox Library

Letterbox Library is a 34-year-old, not-for-profit, children’s booksellers and social enterprise. They specialise in children’s books which celebrate diversity, equality & inclusion as well as books which promote social justice. www.letterboxlibrary.com.

About Housmans Bookshop

Housmans Bookshop is one of London’s longest surviving and last remaining radical bookshops. Housmans is a founder member of the ARB. They were awarded the London Independent Bookshop of the Year Award in 2016. www.housmans.com.

About the Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB)

The ARB is a supportive community for the UK’s radical booksellers; www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk. The ARB also runs the (adult) Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing. www.bread-and-roses.co.uk.

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