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Free CD and booklet, “Writers for Miners”.

Spirit of Revolt is anarchist/libertarian-socialist archive dedicated to preserving and making easily accessible to the public at large, Glasgow/Clydeside grass-roots history of struggle. We are not connected to any political party or trade union nor do we receive any funding from any of these organisation. We are a volunteer group who give our time freely, […]

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Conscientious Objectors Success.

Our Show and Tell event for November, conscientious objectors, was a great success. Lots more attended than at other Show and Tell events, after our archivist Paula’s introduction and group member Eric’s opening talk, there were lots of contributions from the floor. Obviously the subject matter was of tremendous interest to a lot of people, […]

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Show and Tell, Conscientious Objectors.

Spirit of Revolt continues its outreach program with another Show and Tell event, again in conjunction with The Mitchell Library. Once more Spirit of Revolt brings the archive to the people and the people to their history. This event is on Conscientious Objectors from WW1 and WW2. It will take the form of an open […]

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New Read On Line Additions.

We continue to add  digitised material from our collections as often as possible. It is a long on-going process, have a look at the latest additions and enjoy some very interesting reading material, form the past and the not so distant past. This material is from our KM Collection. However, keep coming back to the […]

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May Day and Show and Tell.

Two new videos added to our “Audio and Video” section. First we have one from Spirit of Revolt outreach program, Show and Tell. This one was on the Hetherington occupation at Glasgow University. https://youtu.be/Vwb90Nz5eQY The other was part of our May Day week celebrations, and was a Radical Walk through parts of Glasgow city centre. […]

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Call-Out To Faslane Peace Camp Members, Past And Present.

Spirit of Revolt is always working hard to record, catalogue and make accessible to the public at large, the history and struggles of the ordinary people. Recently we have been in touch with members, past and present, of the Faslane Peace Camp, in an attempt to archive the history of this world renown struggle for […]

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Spirit of Revolt Progress Report.

Progress report for 2017. We had the first meeting of 2018 on, Sunday 28th. January, and audited the past year’s activity by the Spirit of Revolt archive. We had a busy year as usual which brings the SoR Archive to 6 years old! We are delighted to continue to work with the Archivist Paula Larkin […]

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Support Spirit of Revolt.

A wee bit of info about Spirit of Revolt Archive and how you might get involved and support  the growth of this unique archive of dissent. If you wish to donate to Spirit of Revolt, no matter how little, it will be very much appreciated. You can do so by  visiting our DONATE page. Thank […]

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The Natives Are Revolting.

Spirit of Revolt in its continuing process of making the history of the ordinary people’s struggles accessible to the public at large, is working in conjunction with The Mitchell Library, on putting on a free event. This event should be of interest to everyone who lives, or has lived in Glasgow or has connections with […]

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Fund-raiser and raffle results.

As those who attended the Spirit of Revolt fund-raiser, Revolt in Songs, will know the event was a great success with positive responses from audience and performers, a big thank you to all involved. Also sales of Trump toilet rolls, Radical Glasgow book and Spirit of Revolt calendar went very well. For those who didn’t […]

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