http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/ 2010-08-15T04:40:18+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/ http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-12-17T21:34:19+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=aberdeen_people_s_press&rev=1261085659&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://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 2009-10-30T00:27:25+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blackrose_press&rev=1256862445&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 2009-05-02T10:02:19+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=bread_roses&rev=1241254939&do=diff background images narratives sources/links/further info text/html 2010-03-19T10:46:00+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=calverts_north_star_press&rev=1268995560&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 2009-10-30T23:48:10+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community_press&rev=1256946490&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://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://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://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 2009-09-10T15:21:25+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fly_press&rev=1252592485&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 2009-05-06T17:24:18+01:00 http://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 2009-05-09T19:58:35+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=lenthall_road_workshop&rev=1241895515&do=diff background Lenthall Road Workshop was established as a feminist community screen printing and photography workshop in 1976. By the mid 1980s the workshop had developed a policy whereby the members of the collective reflected the class and ethnic background of the area (Hackney) in which the workshop was situated. In part this was to try and encourage the greater use of the facilities by local black and working class women. Describing their aims in 1986 the collective wrote this: 'Our work is … text/html 2009-05-02T10:03:38+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=lithosphere&rev=1241255018&do=diff background images narratives sources/links/further info text/html 2009-07-11T20:01:07+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=little_a&rev=1247338867&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://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 2009-06-11T23:27:09+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=morning_litho&rev=1244759229&do=diff background images narratives sources/links/further info text/html 2009-07-16T01:11:53+01:00 http://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://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://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 2009-03-31T12:22:17+01:00 http://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 2009-05-02T10:04:08+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=red_lion_setters&rev=1241255048&do=diff background images narratives sources/links/further info text/html 2009-08-12T12:42:18+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=rye_express&rev=1250077338&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. images narratives sources/links/further info text/html 2009-05-23T13:54:04+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=see_red_women_s_workshop&rev=1243083244&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 2009-05-02T10:04:39+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=spiderweb&rev=1241255079&do=diff background images narratives sources/links/further info text/html 2010-08-12T23:24:10+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start&rev=1281651850&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 chain: 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 and independent bookshops distributed them. And today? Still activi… text/html 2009-06-11T23:27:58+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=suburban_press&rev=1244759278&do=diff background images narratives sources/links/further info text/html 2009-10-13T19:48:04+01:00 http://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 2009-10-12T20:40:12+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=trojan_press&rev=1255376412&do=diff background There are a collection of photos from Trojan Press on the web site of Tony Swash who was one of the founders of the Trojan Co-op. The photos are here <http://tonyswash.com/Tony/wpg2?g2_itemId=14544> images narratives sources/links/further info text/html 2009-08-10T13:35:01+01:00 http://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://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 2009-07-05T09:12:52+01:00 http://radicalprintshops.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=women_in_print&rev=1246781572&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…