http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/ 2012-05-18T18:59:18+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/ http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-01-27T17:11:51+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=aberdeen_people_s_press&rev=1327684311&do=diff Aberdeen People's Press was set up in 1973. The idea of starting a community paper was first put forward by the Aberdeen Arts and Community Workshop (based on the Powis housing estate) who gave the projet office space to get started. In order to put the projected paper on a more solid footing it was quickly decided to couple it with a printing operation. Money was raised from various sources: contributions from sympathetic academics; a grant from the Student Christian Movement; 'second prize' … text/html 2009-09-09T22:03:59+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=aldgate_press&rev=1252530239&do=diff background Aldgate Press was set up in 1981 with funds from Friends of Freedom Press (Freedom Press was started in 1886 by a group of people that included the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin, Charlotte Wilson and Tom Knell and continues today - see link below). Although it prints for Freedom Press, Aldgate Press is an autonomous enterprise. text/html 2011-05-09T23:35:13+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blackrose_press&rev=1304980513&do=diff background Blackrose was based at 30 Clerkenwell Close, London EC1 About 11 workers at any one time; all on equal pay at union rates; members of the National Graphical Association (NGA); sometimes an apprentice. Division of labour: office staff, printers, designers, pre-press. The printers running the MO worked 12-hour shifts. text/html 2012-05-12T18:48:36+01:00 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 2011-05-09T23:37:13+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=calverts_north_star_press&rev=1304980633&do=diff background Calverts North Star Press - now trading simply as Calverts - was founded in November 1977, when seven printers, designers and typesetters took over the premises and equipment of their former employer IRAT Services (the print and publishing arm of the Arts Lab), after a bitter dispute. Calverts is one of the very few radical design and print companies of the 1970s still working under its original principles. It is a common ownership worker co-operative, incorporated as an Industria… text/html 2012-05-12T18:37:23+01:00 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 2010-02-21T12:57:44+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=copyart&rev=1266757064&do=diff background CopyArt opened in 1984 in Kings Cross with funding from the Greater London Council (GLC), when the GLC closed it continued with funding from Camden Council and Greater London Arts Association. CopyArt was an open access resource centre that used photocopiers as the means of 'printing'. When the collective started, direct access to photocopiers – except to the knackered ones in public libraries – was difficult. They existed in the domain of offices or 'businesses', or you could pay to… text/html 2009-10-29T23:40:08+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=crest_press&rev=1256859608&do=diff background Entry for Crest Press in the 1975 edition of Alternative London (Saunders): “Crest Press, 154 Ladbroke Grove, W10 have meetings anyone can attend on Fridays at 3.30 to decide what to allocate their printing time to the following week – they only print what they like and give preference to political pamphlets and posters. they will teach you how to print and expect you to help. You pay cost price. A similar set up is at 11 Hemingford Road, N1. their meetings are on Wednesdays at 5.”… text/html 2009-10-30T23:32:31+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=docklands_community_poster_project&rev=1256945551&do=diff background The Docklands Community Poster Project was founded in 1981 by Loraine Leeson and Peter Dunn in response to the concerns of East London communities over an extensive proposed re-development programme. The newly elected Conservative government under Margaret Thatcher designated the land surrounding the working docks, from St Katherine's Dock east of Tower Bridge downriver to the Royal Docks, as an Urban Development Corporation. This effectively removed local control from an area cross… text/html 2011-11-18T10:06:34+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fingerprints&rev=1321610794&do=diff Fingerprints was based in Cardiff and operated between 1974 until 1995. It developed from a group of people involved in the Cardiff People's Paper, a radical local paper run by a collective and focussed on tenant issues which operated from the late 60's until around 1973. text/html 2011-01-01T21:03:01+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fly_press&rev=1293915781&do=diff background Fly Press was based at 52 Acre Lane in Brixton. It did design, screen printing (for posters, tshirts and vinyl stickers) and small offset litho (for leaflets and badges).It was one of the few printing co-ops to maintain a system of job rotation. Upstairs were the typesetters Leveller Graphics. text/html 2010-11-16T18:47:31+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=footprint_workers_co-op&rev=1289933251&do=diff background Footprint is a worker co-operative based at Cornerstone Resource Centre, Chapeltown, Leeds. Footprint was set up in July 2000 to provide printing services to the highest possible ethical and environmental standards. We also strive to make our printing as affordable as possible and offer a wide range of quality depending on your budget and the desired look and feel of your printed matter. text/html 2011-01-17T14:23:40+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=footprinters_workers_co-op&rev=1295274220&do=diff background Footprint is a worker co-operative based at Cornerstone Resource Centre, Chapeltown, Leeds. Footprint was set up in July 2000 to provide printing services to the highest possible ethical and environmental standards. We also strive to make our printing as affordable as possible and offer a wide range of quality depending on your budget and the desired look and feel of your printed matter. text/html 2009-05-06T17:24:18+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=greenwich_mural_workshop&rev=1241627058&do=diff background Greenwich Mural Workshop (GMW) was set up in 1975 by Carol Kenna and Stephen Lobb and were a community arts project doing murals, screen printed posters and workshops with local people. The printshop was developed by Lulu Ditzel and Rob Finn firstly (who both joined in 1980), then expanded to its full political/radical potential by Rick Walker, Lyn Medcalf and Carmen Diaz. The workshop is still running, although not the printshop element.(see link below). text/html 2012-05-06T01:52:19+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=lasso_-_design_typesetting_artwork_coop&rev=1336265539&do=diff background Lasso was set up as a women's co-operative in 1984. It was a design, typesetting and print buying service for predominantly women's organisations. They worked with other printing co-operatives such as Trojan, Lithosphere, Calverts and Spiderweb, who they would eventually share premises with. Some members had previously been involved with Lithosphere, and as Lithosphere was taking a more commercial direction, Lasso took some of the smaller clients with them. Lasso produced books, mag… text/html 2012-05-18T16:47:38+01:00 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 2012-05-07T13:02:32+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=lithosphere&rev=1336392152&do=diff background Lithosphere was formed in 1980 out of the in-plant printshop of the campaigning charity, War on Want on Caledonian Road. It moved into premises on Pentonville Road, N1 and expanded rapidly, employing up to 40 people at one time, becoming the largest printing co-operative in London. They also offered design and typesetting. It emerged at a time when co-operatives were being encouraged to grow and there were various bodies and financial support to assist, for example Greater London Ent… text/html 2011-01-08T14:38:19+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=little_a&rev=1294497499&do=diff background Anarchist printshop set up by members and friends of the Anarchy Collective in the 1970s, to print the revamped Anarchy Magazine and similar stuff, and in more or less friendly competition with London's other anarchist printers and publishers, Freedom/Aldgate Press. Little A operated out of a 2000 sq ft warehouse floor in Metropolitan Wharf, Wapping, over a beansprout factory. The press was equipped with decrepit Multiliths, Rotaprint R20s and R30s, and the rent was 50p /sq ft (the f… text/html 2009-02-13T01:16:00+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=more_information_about_this_project&rev=1234487760&do=diff I have initiated this wiki as part of a larger research project about London's radical printshops. From my conversations with interested people it seemed like that this would be good way of simultaneously gathering and sharing information... and interpretations. The history of each organisation changes with every person that was involved. Stories might affirm a shared sense of the past or contradict it. They are all history. They are all interesting. If you have something you want to be included… text/html 2011-01-17T14:23:40+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=morning_litho&rev=1295274220&do=diff background images narratives sources/links/further info text/html 2011-02-07T00:32:39+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=moss_side_community_press&rev=1297038759&do=diff In 1976, the Manchester based Moss Side Press became a women only press and changed its name to Moss Side Community Press Women's Co-op. It had originally started in the late 1960's as a mixed underground press with equipment donated by the Student Christian Movement. text/html 2011-02-07T00:08:29+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mosside_community_press&rev=1297037309&do=diff In 1976 Moss Side Press became women only, changing the name to Moss Side Community Press Women's Co-op. text/html 2009-07-16T01:11:53+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=north_one_press&rev=1247703113&do=diff background From 'Print: How you can do it yourself' (1975) 'You might have used this press when it was a community press at 11 Hemingford Road or you might not have heard of us but would be interested in the printing facilities. We have two printing presses – one does newspaper size, and the other does leaflet size. They are both simple 'offset litho' where you type, write or draw your material and it is photographed exactly onto a metal plate which prints the image on the paper as it goes thr… text/html 2010-01-03T15:29:09+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=onlywomen_press&rev=1262532549&do=diff background Onlywomen Press started out in the early 1970s as a lesbian feminist publisher and printer. They continue to publish if not actually print feminist material. The following text is a discussion among the members that was published in the UK radical feminist magazine Trouble and Strife in 1981. This text was reprinted in Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader (Eagleton 1993/2004) text/html 2009-05-02T16:31:14+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=paddington_printshop&rev=1241278274&do=diff background Paddington Printshop was started in 1974 by John Phillips and Pippa Smith with the aim of assisting community organisations to promote their ideas through graphic media. In 1991 it became London Print Workshop, moving to bigger premises, developing the facilities, (including digital resources to complement the printmaking) and set up a gallery space. text/html 2011-05-09T23:54:38+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=paupers_press&rev=1304981678&do=diff background Notes Paupers' Press, based in East Oxford (off Cowley Rd) 1970s-80s. Offset litho and screen print, range of anarchist/libertarian/left, local and community newsletters, flyers, posters and so on (including the Back Street Bugle, Oxford alternative newspaper - now mostly referenced due to its inclusion of Alan Moore's 'St Pancras Panda' strip) text/html 2009-03-31T12:22:17+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=poster-film_collective&rev=1238498537&do=diff background images narratives This section is for accounts and reflections, individual or shared, specific or general of the poster-film collective. As with adding content to any area of the site you will need a login to do this. This is very fast, just click on the login link at the bottom right of any page and it will take you to a dialogue box with a link to register - then you get a login. text/html 2012-05-12T18:49:48+01:00 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 2012-05-07T13:04:05+01:00 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. text/html 2011-08-19T21:45:16+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=see_red_women_s_workshop&rev=1313786716&do=diff background See Red Women's Workshop was a screen printing workshop run as a women's collective between c1974 and the early 1990s. It was a radical campaigning and publicising organisation fully committed to the ideals of the second wave feminist movement. text/html 2011-03-20T22:53:17+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=sheffield_women_s_printing_co-operative&rev=1300661597&do=diff Sheffield Women's Printing Co-op started life in the late 1970s using a tabletop Roneo offset duplicator on which they taught themselves to print. They registered as a co-op in 1980, sharing space with Commonground Community Printshop, an open access community resource printshop. In 1984 they got a bank loan, an A3 press and moved to their own premises in Matilda Street.The co-op continued until the early 2000s. text/html 2011-01-17T14:23:40+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=spiderweb&rev=1295274220&do=diff background images narratives sources/links/further info text/html 2012-05-12T11:05:47+01:00 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 2011-07-22T11:09:44+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=stepney_community_print_workshop&rev=1311329384&do=diff narratives In the seventies there was much squatting in Stepney (as in other parts of London - does anyone know of a similar resource as this for the squatting movement?). A group of squatters in Stepney set up Stepney Community Print Workshop in Adelina Grove, which itself was squatted, in the mid-seventies. I can not remember when it closed - possibly in the early eighties - or the circumstances of it's closure. I'd probably moved on by then. text/html 2012-05-11T23:28:01+01:00 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 2009-10-13T19:48:04+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=the_poster_workshop_1968-1971&rev=1255459684&do=diff THE POSTER WORKSHOP The Poster Workshop was set up in the summer of 1968 in a basement in Camden Road, Camden Town, London. It was inspired by the Atelier Populaire, set up in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, in May 1968. Posters were printed by silkscreen, using very simple rudimentary techniques. text/html 2012-05-12T19:19:54+01:00 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 2009-08-10T13:35:01+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=union_place&rev=1249907701&do=diff background Union Place started in 1974, were based in Vassall Road, Lambeth, south London and had offset litho (A3 and A4 and later A2), screen printing and 35mm darkroom facilities. From their entry in 'Printing is Easy...? (1986): 'Since community printshops developed in the seventies, the political conditions in England have changed. Too many struggles have been lost to prevent a mood of depression undermining the hope of beneficial change which developed in the sixties. This mood of pessim… text/html 2009-12-14T22:57:22+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=war_on_want&rev=1260831442&do=diff background images narratives I was involved in the management of War on Want for a few years, particularly in its support for the Grunwick Strikers, and in 1979 “went downstairs” to work in their Printshop, where all sorts of campaigning and a bit of arts stuff was printed as well as WoW's own propaganda. text/html 2011-05-10T00:15:33+01:00 http://www.radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=women_in_print&rev=1304982933&do=diff background Women In Print were initially known as 'Women In Print and Frank'. They were an offset litho printing collective that shared premises in both Iliffe Yard (SE11) and then Camberwell Road (SE5) with See Red Women's workshop. They started in the early 1970s and folded in 1986. From Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors (Cadman, Chester, Pivot 1981): In the early discussions about setting up a womens press in London there were debates about whether to print t…