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Porcelain

Submitted by Jacques Roux on Mar 16 2013 17:50

A jug commemorating the Peterloo Massacre

Since I visited the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell I have been harbouring an interest in porcelain, pots, ceramics and such folk, craft, popular art objects which commemorate radical moments in history.

So I thought I would have a little look at what else I can find online.

First place I found was a listings website in Manchester which brought my attention to the People's History Museum (itself very interesting and perhaps more in another post).

Urban renewal in Barcelona

Submitted by Jacques Roux on Mar 6 2013 11:13

Resisting "urban renewal" in Barcelona in the context of larger economic struggle

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The Marx Memorial Library

Submitted by Jacques Roux on Feb 12 2013 18:08

A short visit to the Library.

This afternoon I paid a visit to the Marx Memorial Library on Clerkenwell Green. I'd always wondered what was behind the red door, its a library. Full of interesting bits and pieces apparently they get a majority of their visits to see a room which Lenin worked in for a bit at the start of the 20th century.

Design As Politics

Submitted by Jacques Roux on Feb 4 2013 22:40

New online publication of opinion pieces originally published in UK Building Design magazine from Dutch Design As Politics.

I thought this new collection of texts may be interesting to some, all originally published in BD as opinion pieces and now brought togther online. Design as Politics defines itself as...

HMV worker takes over official Twitter during sackings

Submitted by Jacques Roux on Jan 31 2013 17:53

HMV official Twitter turned against itself.

The Guardian is reporting how a worker at HMV's HR department (allegedly Poppy Rose) briefly hijacked ([url=https://twitter.com/poppy_powers/status/297032073976373249]a term she contests on her Twitter page as she was meant to be in charge of HMW Twitter at the tim

The Past, Present and Future of Radical Pamphleteering, 6/2/13, London

Submitted by Jacques Roux on Jan 31 2013 17:30

In the age of the internet, does the printed pamphlet have any kind of future? With self-publishing so easy online, could the pamphlet soon be obsolete? With a short talk on some of the history of the pamphlet, and an open discussion on where it's going...

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Past Tense with the Radical History Network of Haringey, London (RaHN)
The Past, Present and Future of Radical Pamphleteering
Wed 6th February 2013, 7.30pm

Wood Green Social Club. 3 Stuart Crescent, (off the High Road) Wood Green, London N22 5NJ