Happy May Day everyone! and Happy 40th Birthday to us! Below is a link to the short film about us made by First Take (with archive footage!). And heres the start of the News From Nowhere chapter in the book Utopia (published by Five Leaves): On Mayday 1974, Bob Dent was struggling to open the door to a small shop premises on Manchester St, Liverpool. The key wouldn’t work. It was the opening day for News from Nowhere and it looked like a disaster. Luckily he soon realised the key was merely upside down, and the life of an iconic radical bookshop had begun. Bob had been a student activist at LSE with Maggie Wellings and together they decided to return to Liverpool and for Bob to start a radical bookshop in the mould of London’s “Rising Free”. It was to be non-sectarian, broadly libertarian and provide books and pamphlets unavailable elsewhere. With a £1000 loan from Maggie’s Liverpool Chinese family the dream was realised, taking the name from William Morris’ utopian novel of the late 19th Century. Little would they have realised not only how many further trials the bookshop would endure, but how enduring it would become, outliving nine other radical bookshops in Liverpool, 100+ radical bookshops nationwide, and surviving the widespread decimation of the independent booktrade. player.vimeo/video/81617785
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 10:16:34 +0000
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