Kate Sharpley Library
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.jpg) The Kate Sharpley Library booth at a 2011 libertarian book fair in San Francisco , Barry Pateman at left
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| founding | 1979 |
| Library type | Special library |
| place | London , Berkeley |
| management | Barry Pateman |
| Website | www.katesharpleylibrary.net |
The Kate Sharpley Library (KSL) is a library in London , United Kingdom and Berkeley , United States that aims to preserve and make accessible materials on the history of anarchism . The KSL publishes texts on anarchism and the history of anarchism in English .
history
The Kate Sharpley Library was founded in 1979 as an archive by Brixton anarchists and reorganized in 1991. It was named after an anarchist and war opponent during the First World War .
Inventory and organization
The KSL owns over two thousand historical books, three thousand brochures and over two thousand periodicals in English, but also larger holdings in French , Italian and Spanish . It is entirely by volunteers volunteer operated. Donations and income are used to preserve the material.
Publications
The KSL publishes brochures and books on anarchism and the history of anarchism. Among other things, historical texts are reprinted from the library's holdings that would otherwise be difficult or inaccessible. Authors published by the KSL include: a. Abel Paz , Bartolomeo Vanzetti , Miguel Garcia , Albert Meltzer , David Nicholl and Antonio Téllez .
The activities of KSL are in a quarterly printed and online available Magazine KSL documented. The material published by the KSL is mostly under a Creative Commons license (by-nc-nd).
Kate Sharpley
The namesake of the KSL, Kate Sharpley , was a Deptford- born anarchist and war opponent whose father, brother and friend had perished in World War I. When she was supposed to receive the medals for her family from Queen Mary at the age of 22 , she threw the medals at the queen with the saying "If you like them so much you can have them." (Eng. "If you like them that much, you can have them.")
The queen's face was scratched. Kate Sharpley was beaten by police, arrested and released after a few days without charge. After their marriage in 1922, she withdrew from anarchist activities until a chance encounter with Albert Meltzer at a train station during an anti-fascist campaign . This led to encounters with younger activists .
See also
literature
- KSL. Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library . Kate Sharpley Library, ISSN 1475-0309 (magazine of the Kate Sharpley Library , published four times a year).
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Kate Sharpley Library Wiki (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Barry Pateman: The Kate Sharpley Library Then, Now and Next: An Interview with Barry Pateman. Kate Sharpley Library, accessed January 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Copyright / reuse. Kate Sharpley Library, accessed January 16, 2018 .