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This month we have yet again added a sizeable stash of materials, a mix of journals and pamphlets from three decades, including another lot of excellent fanzines.

Please make sure to also check our Spotlight on: Anarchy Journals. After almost a decade of searching and processing documents we now have a complete set of first series Anarchy journals (and almost a full digital set - wait till next month for the final three!).

On a different matter, does anyone have a copy of Citywise #06 to donate or to loan for digitisation? We are working on our sets of local radical/alternative newspapers and that gap keeps bugging us.

Papers, Journals, etc.

Anarchy (First Series) 003 Vol:01 #03 (1961)
Anarchy (First Series) 004 Vol:01 #04 (1961)
Anarchy (First Series) 005 Vol:01 #05 (1961)
Anarchy (First Series) 006 Vol:01 #06 (1961)
Anarchy (First Series) 010 Vol:01 #10 (1962)
Anarchy (First Series) 013 Vol:02 #03 (1962)
Anarchy (First Series) 014 Vol:02 #04 (1962)
Anarchy (First Series) 023 Vol:03 #01 (1963)
Anarchy (First Series) 026 Vol:03 #04 (1963)
Anarchy (First Series) 036 Vol:04 #02 (1964)
Anarchy (First Series) 037 Vol:04 #03 (1964)
Anarchy (First Series) 047 Vol:05 #01 (1965)
Anarchy (First Series) 051 Vol:05 #05 (1965)
Anarchy (First Series) 102 Vol:09 #08 (1969)

Black Autonomy Vol:03 #05

Fleabite #01
Fleabite #02
Fleabite #03
Fleabite #04

G.E.M. Gay East Midlands #03 (1983)
G.E.M. Gay East Midlands #06 (1983)
G.E.M. Gay East Midlands #07 (1983)
G.E.M. Gay East Midlands #08 (1984)
G.E.M. Gay East Midlands #09 (1984)

Gutter Press #03
Gutter Press #04
Gutter Press #05 (1972)
Gutter Press #07 (1972)
Gutter Press #08 (1972)

Grass Roots #03 (1974)
Grass Roots #04 (1974)

The Hockler #01 (1991)

News from Nowhere #?? 1980/11
News from Nowhere #?? 1981/10

News of War and Revolution #03 (1981)
News of War and Revolution #04 (1982)

No Limits #01 - The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing - The new Leeds Fanzine

Not In the Public Interest #01

New Crimes #05
New Crimes #07

Nihilist Vices Communique #02

No Alternative #01
No Alternative #04

No Cure #04 (1978)

Noises #02 - The Fanzine Disaster

NWAF North West Anarchist Federation 1978/05

Paroxysm Fear #01

Paper Tiger #01
Paper Tiger #02

Pax Fax #03

Pigs Will Fly #01

The Poser #05 - The Photozine

Printed Noises #04

Reality Attack #01

Reverse Order #06

Revolutionary & Radical Feminist Newsletter #08

Shocking Pink #02
Shocking Pink #06

Stability Ink #06

Stuff It Vol:01 #03 (1985)
Stuff It Vol:01 #04 (1985)
Stuff It Vol:01 #05 (1986)
Stuff It Vol:02 #01 (1986)
Stuff It Vol:02 #02 (1987)

Pamphlets

But, Mr. Speaker, in an anarchist Society 'Who will do the Dirty Work?' (1952), Freedom Press

Foulser, George: Unholy Alliance - The 1966 Seamen's Strike: An Analysis, SWF Syndicalist Workers' Federation

Gibson, Tony (1952): Food Production and Population, Freedom Press

Goldman, Emma (1941): The Place of the Individual in Society, Free Society Forum

Goldman, Emma: Trotsky Protests Too Much, Virus

Persons Unknown (1979)

Psychiatry and the Homosexual - A brief analysis of oppresson (1973)

The Realities of Society - The Horrifying Truth for those of you who turn a Blind Eye

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