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- 1. 1960s 70s 80s 90s Alternative/Left/ Freak/Radical/ Hippie etc., local papers
- 2. Alternative papers in 60s and 70s re-framed personal experience via public discourse and effected massive social change.
- 4. TheMovementandMimeograph John Spiers Underground and Alternative Press in Britain
- 5. Brighton’slocalpapers Datr Mole Attila 1971 Bright Times Fleabite Black Flame Head and Freak 1971 Brighton Voice A Woman’s Place 1973 Aphrodite ECA Preston Circus Association 81 Outreach (Student Union) 83 Varndeen 6th Form school paper NAC (Brighton National Abortion Campaign) 79 Rubicon 81
- 6. Brighton’slocalpapers Rubicon really is a paper of the people. Not just because people can buy it and read it but more importantly the people can write and produce it. We welcome contributions for writers artists poets and almost anyone with anything they feel they want to communicate to the people of Brighton via this medium… We hope it will play some part in driving away the wet fog of apathy that dissipates the spark of life in the motor of our consciousness.
- 8. Gay Liberation Front Women’s Liberation Front Preston Community Queens Park Royal Spa Fotodirect Brighton Technical College UFO Club A.S. Gonczar 100 Bonchurch Rd. Busts – little red schoolbook Infinity Foods Queens Road Biba Queens Road 7th Sun Silk Screen Ed Bell Smoothie publications 67 Vere Road BN1 4NQ Brighton combination Free Masons Festival Worthing Festival Sussex 2 Powis Road Pre-festival frolics Freer Streets cyclists 81 Hannover Terrace & at Churchill Sq Revolutionary Festival at the Uni Allotments Open Sect Veg restaurant 7 Victoria rd Waggle Taggle consignments 27 George st NCL legal Advice 37 Park Crescent Macrobiotic 54 Church St Hot Mana Arts Lab 57 South St. Rehab 68 Milner Road
- 9. 131 titles (each one several issues) 900 microfiche 41 35mm microfilm reels UndergroundandAlternativePress newspapers journals pamphlets Leaflets open letters conference reports duplicated memoranda annual reports press releases manifestos verbatim transcripts of speeches and public broadcasts special statements private minute books of single-interest pressure group, political and social movement. -- John Spiers
- 10. Radical Press Archive To build an Open Access collection of materials relevant to radical press culture circa 1960-1990. Preservation Public/Community Undergraduate pedagogy Research scholarship
- 11. Digitisation Selecting Images vs. writing Accessibility Copyright HTML PDFs (£2000) Data protection Pornography Drugs Liable Violence
- 12. UK CDPA and Permitted Acts Permitted Acts for criticism, review, and quotation Permitted Acts and copies for text and data analysis for non-commercial research Ss. 40b CDPA 1998 allows the University to digitise content and to make that content available either through a computer terminal in the University, or where copyright permits as content to publish online. Public Sector Information regulations require the University to supply digital copies of materials where possible to ANY person asking for supply (including commercial requests). US Fair Use 1.00min USFairUse
- 13. permissions “Respondents tend to grant permission and they often do without seeking a fee.” Lessons Learned, Victoria Stobo Create
- 14. RequestforPermissionsGale <snip> digitise all or parts of your microfilm collection entitled The Underground and Alternative Press Collection <snip> to make that digitised full text collection, together with any indexes, available for the lifetime of copyright in the contents of the collection <snip> will not use any brand or trade marks owned by you except as required to do so by you. My client shall not be deemed to acquire any right, title or interest in any such brand names or trade marks. My client also undertakes to include appropriate copyright notices acknowledging your rights in the original materials, as directed by you. My client shall at all times act on its own account and shall not act, or purport to act, as your agent. <snip> My client is, of course, interested to know what restrictions, if any, Gale might wish to place on the use of said materials, and whether Gale would be happy for the entire collection to be digitised, or just parts of it – and in which case, which parts. My client also needs confirmation that Gale does indeed hold the rights to this material, or, if not, who it should approach for these permissions.
- 15. GaleReplies In regards to the Underground and Alternative Press Collection, we are not in a position to grant the rights requested, and you will need to contact the respective copyright owners of each of the individual publications concerned. Although our legal review has determined that Gale owns the rights in the microfilm itself, we believe that the rights in the original content – and consequently the right to digitise the publications – rests with the copyright owners. As you are probably aware, this collection was active from the 1970s- 1990s, and our records from this period are poor – it was published by companies that were subsequently acquired by Gale, and I believe many useful files may have been lost in the process of office moves etc. Unfortunately, I therefore do not have the contact details for the current copyright owners. If you do clear the necessary rights, and wish to digitise from the Gale microfilm, you will need clearance from our Permissions department to do so: http://www.cengage.com/permissions/
- 20. Win! Crèche not Casino.
- 21. Potential for researchers • Intersection of progressive arguments and reform measures • Networks of people – what was the reach • Materiality – production and its imprint on the content • Mapping places and papers over time • Timeline of papers starting and closing • Government regulations • City development • Networking social groups / timelines of shelf life • Different types of representations of progressive values • Metaphors and their use by progressives in Britain & Europe • Mobility within the middle class (evidence of it) • Primary Resources – where are they and who can access them • How are the actual archives framed (how do we present archives and cultural memory) • Not strategic but coordinated • Sexual dissidence
- 22. Potential for undergraduates Teach audience, genre, collaboration Primary research Censorship Cultural appropriation Sociology – formative discourses Performance Text and image mining Digital archaeology Linking facets – paper indexes and citations to other papers Evaluating sources of information and sources within news stories; identifying news and opinion; and understanding and identifying media bias as well as understanding how the biases of news consumers influence how they decode media texts (Press 2011). -- requires students to create news media. In this way, news literacy becomes a combination of critical reception and critical production (Schwarz 2011).
- 23. Bill Butler, Unicorn bookshop, Attila 'What alternative? Where is the much talked about "community"? Is the community your clique or ours? Was there any action last summer/were there any actual alternatives which weren't purely for the coffee-table freaks? 'If you're quick to blame the " average freak in the street", a safe well-used assumption, bear in mind that the real apathy has its source not in the streets but in the . .. half-a- dozen so-called "community shops", none of which provide an alternative service ...
- 24. Thanks to these gruntowny people (radical, profound, thorough) Charles Oppenheim Tracy Moore One Archives and Outspoken lgbtq.org Siobhan Britton Josef Cabey John Spiers John Noyce Francis Jarmin Ben Stephens (editor extraordinaire) Cherie Wieble at UofI Library Annette Moore at Sussex Denice Penrose John Wrighton The Keep Milo at QZAP Robin Englebright
- 25. Bibliography Online list of books and archives
Editor's Notes
- Log into CourseEra Open OutLoud to load The Radical Brighton project started in the summer of 2016 as a means of preserving a perishable archive of grassroots publications created in the sixties, seventies and eighties in the UK, including Brighton. Handmade zine-y publications, these are time capsules of those youth generations who leave us a primary resource of formative democratic and countercultural movements. This collection of local papers is among the first examples of subcultures speaking to themselves and shares their diaries, calendars, illustrations, poetry and much more. The phenomenon of reflexivity teaches us that our personal reality of our city is a physical manifestation of how we see the world. In this sense, radical press built new states out of statements. The readership built their places out of the material of the shared experience with the others.
- http://www.nlcaonline.org.uk/page_id__867_path__0p18p95p.aspx UK population 1960 52,372 (thousands) #books issued 460,504 1962/63 HE 118,000 un; 55,000 teacher training; 43,000 FE; 12:7 20-29 1970 55,421 # book issued 114,472 1970 HE 279,000 uni; 246,000FE/teacher training; 1970 14:3 20-29 South East 16,271 ( thousands) 1971 17,143
- Much of Brighton’s local press has been lost but some issues are available
- The production of Rubicon in Brighton is itself a decisive step and there’s no presumption about it, in the right direction. Rubicon really is a paper of the people. Not just because people can buy it and read it but more importantly the people can write and produce it. We welcome contributions for writers artists poets and almost anyone with anything they feel they want to communicate to the people of Brighton via this medium… We hope it will play some part in driving away the wet fog of apathy that dissipates the spark of life in the motor of our consciousness.
- Like receiving an invitation to a party. The phenomenon of reflexivity teaches us that our personal reality of our city is a physical manifestation of how we see the world. In this sense, radical press built new states out of statements. The readership built their places out of the material of the shared experience with the others.
- Dynamic reflection of the content in the paper Green Party formed in the 70s Women in Media 1975 National Women’s Aid Federation 1975 Women’s Liberation Workshop 1969
- John E. Pemberton National Council on Printed Ephemera in the Social Science a Report 1973
- Copyright is a form of a monopoly right
- For those who own nothing but their labour and who often live in humble conditions, it’s difficult to accept that the owners of capital – some of whom have inherited part of their wealth are able to appropriate so much of the wealth produced. Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015 (ROPSI)
- Reused content Everything really in copyright – writing and images Some of it’s at The Keep Neil Ascherson Rights Management System or Assets Management System Everything should be available as HTML with linked data in the background
- "Fair Use" under the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107:
- "Fair Use" under the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107:
- Effecting massive social change is a difficult thing. … in those days creativity was semi-permeable, and poets took a more active part in culture wars than book signings. Regarding the Combination, search on "Brighton Combination" ... there you'll also find Jenny Harris who I mentioned to you as having started a digitisation project around radical movements in Deptford in the 70's, including the Albany Empire & radical theatre. Like receiving an invitation
- http://www.nlcaonline.org.uk/page_id__867_path__0p18p95p.aspx Gained permissions for LFSC; Alternative Brighton; Dave Mercer bibliography The UK playwright David Mercer was a newly emerged writer in the sixties; represented by agent Peggy Ramsay his plays were dramatised for the BBC as well as theatre, with his most successful work A Suitable Case for Treatment considered “a ground-breaking television play” when it aired October 21st, 1962 on BBC television. Its influence among the counterculture soared when in 1966 Karel Riesz directed its film adaptation and in doing so leapfrogs popular culture into a new place where “British social realism moves into a surrealistic depiction of inner psychological states.” (Savage) This bibliography of Mercer’s works compiles the titles of Mercer’s plays, reviews of his works, his autobiographical articles, and related writing. Between the indexes and bibliographies you have… We know this thanks to cognitive scientist George Lakoff. He writes "frames are mental structures that shape the way we see the world. As a result, they shape the goals we seek, the plans we make, the way we act, and what counts as a good or bad outcome of our actions. In politics our frames shape our social policies and the institutions we form to carry out policies. To change our frames is to change all of this. Reframing is social change."
- The catalogue conformed to a style that was typical of conceptual art; austere, no colour, lots of white paper; pages of text and logical formulae; few images (the contrast with underground magazines such as Oz exemplifying the colourful psychedelic, ornamental style could not have been sharper. The Suburban Press was only 1 of many such small alternative painting presses, photography and poster workshops. Community art of course was defined by and limited by its local character. Left Shift/John A Walker
- Effecting massive social change is difficult which is why the Radical Press movement is so impressive. What brought people into the movement differed by individual but by and large, a shared scepticism towards the dominant commercial culture fuelled their commitment. Largely interested in personal freedom and happiness, the radical press movement was essentially progressive. 1970s Brighton underwent a surge of development threatening to built a new commercialism over financially-mediocre but socially-significant culture. City planning also underwrote the already established class divisions between neighbourhoods and so underinvested in poor areas and enhanced the wealthy ones. In grassroots publications we see how people took offense to this treatment and led fights against market-driven planning. Local papers in Brighton had a hand in keeping the Hanover neighbourhood intact. At one point, developers proposed locating a casino in Queens Park, in the heart of Hanover and walking distance from two primary schools and a pre-school. After a surge of community action, communicated through radical press, the city ensured that a creche (nursery) was established at the park and the casino was moved over by the pier and so grouped with the other adult nightlife attractions. The impact of radical press is all the more impressive because, as it gave voice to the youth generation, it also put power into a progressive social movement. Local papers didn’t set out to do this strategically, but a movement of local press fans did successfully coordinated a new communications channel. News was passed through a network of distributors who received papers from around the city, country or further afield, and in turn sent papers to local bookshops, cafes, subscribers, as well as (informal) news agents who would hand out copies on the streets where they could engage in conversations. This often led to disparate groups joining together to fight for a common cause, such as keeping a park a playful place for children. The movement literally put power into people’s hands and the political ‘wins’ are with us today.
- http://ryersonjournalism.ca/toward-2020-a-campus-wide-j-school-news-literacy-as-an-avenue-for-journalism-schools-to-connect-with-new-students-and-a-new-generation/
- UK population 1960 52,372 (thousands) #books issued 460,504 1962/63 HE 118,000 uni; 55,000 teacher training; 43,000 FE; 12:7 20-29 1970 55,421 # book issued 114,472 1970 HE 279,000 uni; 246,000FE/teacher training; 1970 14:3 20-29 South East 16,271 ( thousands) 1971 17,143 Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/10/morgan-suitable-case-for-treatment-dvd?CMP=share_btn_tw Technologies are enhancements of our own senses that can enable us to tell stories about the world. Dave Mercer, RD Lang, Alan Ginsburg and Bill Butler – insane by itself isn’t a state worthy of condign treatment but a rebellion the only act of sanity