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New in August 2023: 1970s Women’s Liberation Movement articles from Catcall.

‘Strength will not come through hiding or minimizing our differences.’ Two articles originally published in the nineteen-seventies give an insight into some of the developments and political debates in the UK Women’s Liberation Movement at the time, while raising some issues still relevant to feminist and other social movements today. Censorship and Self-oppression (1976) by … Continue reading New in August 2023: 1970s Women’s Liberation Movement articles from Catcall.

New in April 2016: Poets and War

‘War is a business of innumerable personal tragedies’: Wilfrid Gibson, Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne, and the First World War, published earlier this year in the Journal of the Friends of the Dymock Poets,  has now been uploaded and is also available for download in Word and pdf formats.

New in February 2016: Wilfrid Gibson’s ‘Devilswater’

Wilfrid Gibson’s poem ‘Devilswater’,  set to music by James Gillespie, appears on the recently launched Brothers Gillespie CD, Songs from the Outlands. The poem, which refers  to places near Hexham, Gibson’s Northumberland hometown, was influenced by the regional folk tales and Border Ballads he heard from childhood; I think Gibson would have loved the Gillespies’ … Continue reading New in February 2016: Wilfrid Gibson’s ‘Devilswater’

New in July 2015: Michael Gibson article from ‘Eagle Times’. Work in progress: dissenting poets in the First World War

New Upload: ‘Eagle Art Editor’:  Michael Gibson’s 1998 illustrated account of his time working for Eagle and associated comics and annuals in the nineteen-fifties. My previous upload of Michael Gibson’s unfinished memoir of his time at Eagle in the nineteen-fifties has been attracting interest from comics fans, so I’m pleased to have located and got … Continue reading New in July 2015: Michael Gibson article from ‘Eagle Times’. Work in progress: dissenting poets in the First World War

New in April 2015: Michael Gibson remembers teenage authorship, bomb disposal, and Eagle comics

Michael Gibson (1918-2000), a prolific children’s author, was the art editor of the Eagle comic during the 1950s.  As his niece, I became the lucky recipient of a gift subscription which, arriving earlier than the copies in the shops, made me the envy of my schoolmates (especially the boys). Towards the end of his life, … Continue reading New in April 2015: Michael Gibson remembers teenage authorship, bomb disposal, and Eagle comics

New in March 2015: additional resources on Wilfrid Gibson

Last summer the Sunday Mirror,  in an issue commemorating the outbreak of the First World War, printed one of Wilfrid Gibson’s war poems. The accompanying one-paragraph biography  contained seven factual errors. Though I managed to get these corrected in Mirror Online,  other misinformation about Gibson persists on the internet and in print.  He did not … Continue reading New in March 2015: additional resources on Wilfrid Gibson

New in November 2014: collages for Remembrance Day, and book chapter about Helen Lowe.

New Uploads:  For Remembrance Day, I have added links to collages I have made using two of  Wilfrid Gibson’s antiwar poems , Armistice Day 1932, and The Victors. Text only versions of the poems here. The Spirit of Resistance: Helen Lowe, 1944-2011 is now available on this site. This short chapter from  Women Against Fundamentalism: … Continue reading New in November 2014: collages for Remembrance Day, and book chapter about Helen Lowe.

New in September 2014: Anarchism and Feminism in the 1970s, plus new publication.

New Upload: Women activists discuss anarchism, feminism, and the relationship between the personal and the political, in extracts from interviews carried out in 1977. Part One of Anarchism and Feminism: voices from the seventies includes: Notes towards an introduction Susan:  I really believe in a basic anarchism in all women, because of their experiences. Rose:  … Continue reading New in September 2014: Anarchism and Feminism in the 1970s, plus new publication.

New in August 2014: Nonviolence and Antimilitarism

The new section on Nonviolence and Antimilitarism  launches with a small selection of links and resources relating specifically to antimilitarism, including poems, photographs, and interviews. The section will gradually be expanded, so watch this space!