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  The Kate Sharpley Library
In 1991 the Library was moved from a storage location in London to Northamptonshire, where we are now in the process of creating a database of the entire collection.
The Kate Sharpley Library is probably the largest collection of anarchist material in England, and, in order to extend and enhance the collection, we ask all anarchist groups and publications worldwide to add our name to their mailing list.
The Kate Sharpley Library (KSL) was named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist## one of the countless "unknown" members of our movement so ignored by "official historians" of anarchism.
www.spunk.org /library/biblio/sp001560.html   (351 words)

  
 The Kate Sharpley Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Kate Sharpley Library is an extraordinary archive.
For example, the KSL possesses detailed reports from the IWA (AIT/IAA), the Anarchist Federation of Britain (1945-50), the Syndicalist Workers Federation (1950-79) as well as records from anarchist publishing houses such as Cienfuegos Press, ASP, and others.
The Library also has a sizeable collection of libertarian socialist and council communist material.
perspectives.anarchist-studies.org /2ksl.htm   (205 words)

  
 FAQ — Kate Sharpley Library
The KSL was named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist - one of the countless 'unknown' members of the movement so often ignored by 'official historians' of anarchism.
The Kate Sharpley Library is dedicated to restoring the history of the anarchist movement and regularly publishes lost areas of anarchist history.
Kate Sharpley was a London anarchist and anti-war activist, representative of the hundreds of comrades who made our movement what it was but are ignored by what claim to be 'official histories'.
www.katesharpleylibrary.net /kslfaq.htm   (208 words)

  
 The Kate Sharpley Library
The Kate Sharpley Library is an extraordinary archive.
For example, the KSL possesses detailed reports from the IWA (AIT/IAA), the Anarchist Federation of Britain (1945-50), the Syndicalist Workers Federation (1950-79) as well as records from anarchist publishing houses such as Cienfuegos Press, ASP, and others.
The Library also has a sizeable collection of libertarian socialist and council communist material.
www.anarchiststudies.org /perspectives/2ksl.htm   (205 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library Labour History: United Kingdom
Alexander Baykov Library The Baykov Library is part of the European Resource Centre, at the University of Birmingham.
Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull.
Kate Sharpley Library (London) Named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist, the Library was founded in South London in 1979 and reorganized in 1991.
www.iisg.nl /~w3vl/unitedkingdom.html   (2277 words)

  
 Society Politics Anarchism Archives Polish Yellow Pages - Polska - Poland - Polen
Kate Sharpley Library- The U.K.'s largest collection of anarchist materials.
Kate Sharpley Library- Anarchist Literature and History archiving project.
The Anarchist Library- A collection of writings on anarchism, including biographies of several anarchists and lots of essays.
www.yp.pl /ca/27999/Society/Politics/Anarchism/Archives   (733 words)

  
 Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Those who've been waiting for these catalogues with bated breath can get a regular update on that, and learn more about Anarchist history, in KSL (the Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library), which has resumed quarterly publication after a spell of "exciting irregularity".
We would recommend that anyone clearing out their cupboards of libertarian material should get in touch with KSL to make sure that historical gems are not lost forever.
The Kate Sharpley Library is a vital part of the fight to prevent our history (as a friend put it) "being re-written to take account of nobodies".
flag.blackened.net /blackflag/210/210ksl.htm   (201 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library Women's History: United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Women's Library is a new cultural centre, housing the most extensive collection of women's history in the UK.
The library has a number of significant collections on the history of working women including archives from the cooperative movement, the suffragettes and suffragists, women in the labour party and the feminist movement of the 1970s.
Women's History Network (UK) The WHN is an organisation of academics, teachers, women in libraries, independent and amateur historians, working to encourage research and writing in women's history.
www.neha.nl /~womhist/unitedkingdom.html   (953 words)

  
 KSL Bulletin - No. 26   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This issue of KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library brought to you by the KSL collective in March 2001.
The Kate Sharpley Library relies on financial and material donations: have you made one recently?
Kate Sharpley Library, BM Hurricane, London WC1 N 3XX England
recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/HavelHippolyte/bullet26.htm   (5448 words)

  
 Introduction to the Kate Sharpley Library
The Kate Sharpley Library was named in honor of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist, one of the countless "unknown" members of our movement so ignored by "official historians" of anarchism.
The Library was founded in South London in 1979 and reorganized in 1991.
The Kate Sharpley Library is always on the lookout for relevant material, and we ask all anarchist groups and publications to add our name to their mailing list.
www.katesharpleylibrary.net /kslintro.htm   (336 words)

  
 The Kate Sharpley Library Yiddish Anarchist Bibliography
Kate Sharpley Library, BM Hurricane, London, WC1N 3XX, England
Kate Sharpley Library, BM Hurricane, London, WC1N 3XX, UK.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. National Yiddish Book Center, Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building, 1021 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002-3375, USA.
www.ibiblio.org /yiddish/library/anarkh-jp.htm   (4689 words)

  
 some recent KSL pamphlets
The Kate Sharpley Library has been busy of late issuing a raft of new and reprinted pamphlets in its efforts to document the activities and writings of anarchists.
Firstly let me state that I fully support the efforts of KSL in their publication of items relating to anarchist history.
Any “surplus” made on most of these pamphlets will help the KSL survive and bring out more pamphlets (and their excellent little bulletin), with the exception of the Dawn Collective’s one where money will go towards prisoners’ literature projects.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /blackchip/some_recent_ksl_pamphlets.htm   (750 words)

  
 Publications From the Kate Sharpley Library
It is complemented by some of Miguel's letters to the press and introduced by a tribute from the Kate Sharpley Library.
The KSL bulletin carries news and reviews from the library, as well as reprints and translations of articles from would otherwise be unavailable.
The lower one (in brackets) is for individual KSL bulletin subscribers only.
www.katesharpleylibrary.net /bulletin/publications.htm   (5225 words)

  
 Kate Sharpley Library
The Kate Sharpley Library is pleased to announce we are now hosting the Flavio Costantini Website, "Recording artist of anarchy, literature, structure, industry and the human condition." -->
The Kate Sharpley Library is dedicated to researching and restoring the history of the anarchist movement and regularly publishes information on lost areas of anarchist history.
It was named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist — one of the countless 'unknown' members of the movement so often ignored by 'official historians' of anarchism.
www.katesharpleylibrary.net   (129 words)

  
 "Direct Action" by Emile Pouget and "A Day Mournful and Overcast" by an Uncontrollable of the Iron Column   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A passion for freedom, opposition to all forms of hierarchy and the advocacy and use of direct action have historically been some of the most important and enduring characteristics of anarchist politics.
The recent publication by the Kate Sharpley Library, of two pamphlets provides us with a glimpse of how these ideas and practices have evolved over time.
These two titles are available from the Kate Sharpley Library, BM Hurricane, London WCIN 3XX, England.
struggle.ws /wsm/ws/2003/ws78/reviews.html   (528 words)

  
 BUBL LINK: Special libraries
Concludes that the cataloguing needs of the special libraries surveyed in this study are characterised by their diversity as shown by the predominant use of locally developed codes and the perceived lack of utility of cooperative schemes.
Covers public, academic and special libraries and involves the collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of all types of statistics which are relevant to library and information work.
Research library concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labour movement since the late eighteenth century.
bubl.ac.uk /link/s/speciallibraries.htm   (626 words)

  
 Kate Sharpley, 1891-1978 - libcom.org | history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Albert Meltzer first met Kate Sharpley on the day of the Lewisham anti-National Front riot in 1977 when he got into an altercation with some racists on the train home.
When she was released from the police station a few days later, no charges being brought, she was scarcely recognisable.
The girl was Deptford-born Kate Sharpley, who originally worked for a German baker but with the onslaught of WWI went into munitions work in Woolwich.
www.libcom.org /history/articles/1891-1978-kate-sharpley/index.php   (435 words)

  
 What's New — Kate Sharpley Library
We have also added the latest issue of the KSL Bulletin to the Bulletin Archive.
We have also added back issues of the KSL Bulletin from 2004 and 2005.
Feedback about the content of the site should be directed to Kate Sharpley Library and feedback about the structure (broken code or links) to Joseph Morris
www.katesharpleylibrary.net /whatsnew.htm   (1013 words)

  
 Anarchists Celebrate Paris Commune on Hay Market Aniversary : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Anarchist Library in collaberation with the campus French Club (Cafe Muse), the Foreign Language Deptartment and Cultural Affairs invite you to an evening celebration of the 1871 Paris Commune.
(Emma Goldman Archivist, currator of Kate Sharpley Library) will be the keynote speaker for the evening.
Library) will be the keynote speaker for the evening.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2005/04/1713668.php   (484 words)

  
 KSL #35   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
There is also a full page of items for sale that the KSL publish or retail.
The KSL project is well worth supporting and can be contacted at BM Hurricane, London, WC1N 3XX.
This may sound macabre but if you're making a will, it doesn't cost anything to insert a line or two leaving all your anarcho goodies (books, mags, correspondence, ephemera) to the KSL.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /blackchip/ksl_.htm   (355 words)

  
 +-+ Haymarket Tribute +-+
The plan was to spend two years urging all American employers to adopt a standard 8-hour day"...(continued) from the Illinois Labor History Society.
The Kate Sharpley Library is dedicated to researching and restoring the history of the anarchist movement and regularly publishes information on lost areas of anarchist history.
It was named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist — one of the countless 'unknown' members of the movement so often ignored by 'official historians' of anarchism.
www.charminghostess.us /redpocket/haymarket.html   (227 words)

  
 1871 Paris Commune Celebration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Join anarchist historian and speaker, Barry Pateman (Emma Goldman Papers Project, Kate Sharpley Library) and The Luddites (Carla Kihlstedt, Marika Hughes, Ches Smith, Devin Hoff) for an evening of history, music, and revolution.
Historian, Barry Pateman, is interested in the development of American anarchism and the way it relates to labor and other radical movements in general including socialism, feminism, communism, and free speech.
Pateman also works on the Kate Sharpley Library (based in Berkeley), a project devoted to uncovering and making public source documents and other material that call into question the veracity of "capital H" History, largely written by the powerful.
www.21grand.org /20040415.html   (315 words)

  
 Alternative Library Collections
Kate Sharpley Library (London-based depository of anarchist history)
ONE Institute ("World's largest research library on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered heritage and concerns"; based in Los Anegeles and open to the public)
Schlesinger Library (focus: U.S. women's history since the early 19th century; part of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute, it's open to the public)
www.geocities.com /SoHo/Cafe/7423/collections.html   (265 words)

  
 Books Wanted — Kate Sharpley Library
The Kate Sharpley Library is constantly on the lookout for various books and pamphlets.
Please send on any material (books, buttons, letters, newspapers, mags, pamphlets, videos you no longer need) If we already have them we can use them as swaps for material we don't have, or sell them at fair prices in order to buy more expensive items.
We ask all publishers of anarchist related material to send it to us for review.We publish reviews regularly in the widely read Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library.
www.katesharpleylibrary.net /wantlist.htm   (199 words)

  
 Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin Archive
Some Notes on the Founding of the Kate Sharpley Library
Draft Statutes at the (reconstituted) Kate Sharpley Library
KSL FAQ • KSL Publications • Online Documents
www.katesharpleylibrary.net /bulletin/kslbarch.htm   (566 words)

  
 What's Happening: Books & Events (Fall, 1998)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Finally, the Kate Sharpley Library will add another pamphlet to its exceptional collection with the release of Ned Kelly’s Ghost by John Patten, a work about the IWW in Australia (£1 from the Kate Sharpley Library).
Finally, in cooperation with the Anarchist Archives Project, the Kate Sharpley Library has just published the Yiddish Anarchist Bibliography (edited by John Patten).
At 32 8½ x 11" pages, this bibliography is the most comprehensive source on this topic to date ($12 from the Anarchist Archives Project (postage included, make checks payable to Jerry Kaplan) and £7.50p from the Kate Sharpley Library).
perspectives.anarchist-studies.org /4Whatshappening.htm   (1350 words)

  
 Virtual Archive - Repository Information for Kate Sharpley Library
Virtual Archive - Repository Information for Kate Sharpley Library
A new paperback version of Tillie Olsen's classic short story collection Tell Me a Riddle was issued on August 15, 1971.
For a footnote: Jewish Women's Archive, "Virtual Archive - Repository Information for Kate Sharpley Library," .
www.jwa.org /archive/jsp/repInfo.jsp?repID=21   (82 words)

  
 Contacts and Links — Kate Sharpley Library
You can contact the KSL by mail at:
By email, we can be contacted at: info@katesharpleylibrary.net
Heavily illustrated site on the Civil War in one part of Spain - in Spanish.
www.katesharpleylibrary.net /contact.htm   (93 words)

  
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