http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/ 2012-05-18T18:59:53+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/ http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-05-18T16:47:38+01:00 jessbai http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=lenthall_road_workshop&rev=1337356058&do=diff background Lenthall Road Workshop was first established as a community silkscreen and photography workshop in 1975, at 81 Lenthall Road, Hackney, London. For three years prior to that, the workshop had been run by one person as a screen-printing service mainly for Centerprise (a community publishing centre and cafe on Kinsgland Road, Dalston). However due to Centerprise's own financial problems it decided to close the printshop. Three women offered to continue running it as a collective, this … text/html 2012-05-12T19:19:54+01:00 jessbai http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=trojan_press&rev=1336846794&do=diff background Trojan Press was set up as an offset-litho service printing co-operative in 1980. Starting off in a leaky shed in Stoke Newington, they were then based in Bradbury Street, Dalston. Bradbury Street was an ambitious project by Hackney Co-operative Developments to provide premises and support for co-operative businesses. Trojan ran a single colour press, printing newsletters, pamphlets and books. They also co-produced and distributed a range of posters with a number of designers includi… text/html 2012-05-12T18:49:48+01:00 jessbai http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=red_lion_setters&rev=1336844988&do=diff background Red Lion Setters was a women's typsetting co-operative in London, set up by the South African anti-apartheid campaigner Norma Kitson (1933-2002). They operated in Holborn, first at 27 Red Lion Street, then 22 Brownlow Mews, then latterly from Riversdale Road in Highbury. Red Lion Setters typeset for numerous organisations and publishers, including History Workshop Journal, Screen magazine, Anti-Apartheid News, London Review of Books and Verso. text/html 2012-05-12T18:48:36+01:00 jessbai http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=bread_roses&rev=1336844916&do=diff background Bread n' Roses were a typsetting collective, based for a while in 30 Camden Road, in the basement of a building occupied by Camden Tenants Federation and their magazine Camden Tenant, in exchange for typsetting the magazine and the Federation's numerous other campaign materials. They later moved to premises above Community Press in St Paul's Road, Islington with whom they had a close connection. (When Community Press had been based at Hemingford Road, members of Camden Tenants would… text/html 2012-05-12T18:37:23+01:00 jessbai http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community_press&rev=1336844243&do=diff background Community Press was based at 2a St Pauls Road, London N1 There were about 6 workers at any one time; at first unpaid, later wages (all equal). Earlier trade union membership was with the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), and later the National Graphical Association (NGA). text/html 2012-05-12T11:05:47+01:00 jessbai http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start&rev=1336817147&do=diff == This site is devoted to building a history of late 20th century radical and community printing collectives in the UK; the poster collectives, the service printers and typesetters, the print resource centres. The presses were part of a network: activists in organisations wrote and designed the books, pamphlets, posters, newspapers and leaflets which they needed to further the cause. Typesetters and printers produced them. Activists, distribution cooperatives and independent bookshops distrib… text/html 2012-05-11T23:28:01+01:00 jessbai http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=suburban_press&rev=1336775281&do=diff background Community-based offset-litho printing press, based in Croydon set up in 1970 by Jeremy Brooks, Nigel Edwards and Jamie Reid. They printed for a range of radical and community groups. They also produced several issues of a magazine by the same name. They closed in about 1974. text/html 2012-05-07T13:04:05+01:00 jessbai http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=rye_express&rev=1336392245&do=diff background This printshop was originally set up in the basement of a Southwark Councillor to service the local Labour Party and other compatible groups. Her house looked out on to Peckam Rye. However, when one of the worker's found themselves on an opposing side during an internal Labour Party dispute, the owner of the premises - at the time deputy leader of the Council, used Council solicitors to put a stop notice, and essentially evict the printshop with one weeks notice.