Hackney
A Hackney Autobiography – recording and remembering the history of Centerprise.
De Beaver – archive of newspapers of the De Beauvoir Association from 1971-1984.
Hackney Solidarity Network – umbrella organisation for activists and community groups in the borough. Publish the 21st century Hackney Heckler.
Hackney Independent – working class community politics, mainly concentrating on South Hackney.
Hackney Alliance – defending public services against cuts and layoffs.
Hackney Flashers – archival site dedicated to this 1970s radical feminist photography collective.
Friends of Hackney Nurseries – a local group of parents, nursery workers, local residents and community activists that believe that quality childcare should be affordable and accessible to all those who need it.
Neil Martinson – Photographer whose work appeared in Centerprise’s “Working Lives” books. His site includes these and many other Hackney photos, including protests and other material.
Blood And Property – an interesting blog covering the political machinations in Hackney.
OPEN Dalston – campaigns for excellence in the quality of the built environment and public realm, the provision of transportation and amenities, and to ensure that changes to these have proper regard to the needs of local residents and businesses and the maintenance of a sustainable residential and business community.
Hackney Oral History – a collective of people interested in oral history who are currently researching people’s experiences of housing in Hackney.
What Is Chats Palace? – history of the venue/community centre and other things (like radical posters they found in the loft!)
The People’s Story of Woodberry Down
Open School East – activities and events in De Beauvoir
Radical History
London
Past Tense – South London Radical History and more.
Radical History Network of North East London
Lewisham ’77 – documentation of the anti-fascist protest.
Transpontine – South East London blogzine
56A Infoshop – a hive of activity in Elephant and Castle which includes an offline archive of radical publications. Have been very helpful with material for this site.
Housmans – one of London’s few surviving independent radical bookshops.
The Queer History of East London Project
Antihistory – documenting the Antiuniversity (launched in Shoreditch, 1968)
Elsewhere
Northern Radical History Network
Nottingham Radical History Group
General
Unfinished Histories – British Alternative Theatre 1968-1988
hey, great website! Particularly interesting to me as a Hackney resident.
I help run http://libcom.org which has a massive working class history section (http://libcom.org/history) including a bunch of London and Hackney stuff. If you ever wanted to duplicate any of your content on libcom, with crediting link to here, you would be very welcome as well
Thanks Steven – I’ve already ripped off some libcom content here: https://hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/hackney-communist-party-1950s/
If anything on here is of use to libcom, that’s cool with me…
Hi, this is great! Fantastic resource. I administrate the radicalprintshops.org wiki if you don’t mind I’ll put a link to this on there. Did meet you briefly with Lisa R at the launch of the hackney buildings book. Cheers, Jess
Great site. People interested in radical history from the other end of the globe might be interested in checking out- http://www.australianmuseumofsquatting.org and http://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au
It would be great if you could link to the Unfinished Histories site http://www.unfinishedhistories.com as recording part of the radical history of the arts – specifically theatre from the 1960s onwards – in which Chats Palace played a part as a key Hackney alternative venue. Thanks
I’ve updated the links today – more suggestions welcome!
Very interesting site and lots of good stuff. Thanks. Glad you could use my piece on Victoria Park.