Charlie Baird Finding Aid
Reference Code
GB243 T/SOR/6
Title
Charlie Baird Collection
Dates of Creation
1904-2007
Extent
4 archive boxes
Name of Creators
Material collected by Charlie Baird.
Level of Description
Fonds
Administrative History
Charlie Baird is the son of the prominent anarchist and one time secretary of the Glasgow Anarchist Group of the same name.
The Barrowfield Community School was set up in 1972 in the Barrowfield area of Glasgow. The school was developed by Brian Addison, a secondary school teacher, and John MacBeath, a lecturer in Jordanhill College of Education. When the school first opened there were seven children, one full-time teacher and four part-time teachers along with a number of volunteer student teachers. Barrowfield was developed according to the ‘free school’ philosophy which envisages a more equal relationship between pupil and teacher and a broader understanding of what education can involve. The school closed after a boy who had been banned from a trip by his fellow pupils for stealing burned the building the school occupied down.
Scope and Content
This collection includes: material relating to Barrowfield Community School, including administrative papers, correspondence, and reports; publications by Freedom Press, the Industrial Workers of the World, Bratach Dubh; books written by Emma Goldman and Guy Aldred; books on education; and a range of publications relating to anarchism and libertarian communism.
System of Arrangement
Items are arranged according to their original order where possible.
Custodial History
Material collected and held by Charlie Baird.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Charlie Baird
Appraisal, Destruction, Scheduling
Appraised according to the Spirit of Revolt appraisal policy.
Accruals
No further accruals expected.
Access Conditions
Open
Copyright Reproduction
Application for reproduction should be made to the Spirit of Revolt group.
Existence of Copies
No known copies.
Finding Aids
Descriptive list available at Glasgow City Archives and on the Spirit of Revolt website.
Publication Note
No known publications.
Related collections
Other Spirit of Revolt (Ref: T/SOR) collections held at Glasgow City Archives.
Date(s) of Description
Compiled by Christopher Cassells (Project Archivist), November 2012.
| 1 | Barrowfield Free School | |||||
| 1 | Administrative papers | |||||
| 1 | Constitution of Barrowfield Community School. Read on line. | n.d. | ||||
| 2 | Document detailing budget, staff, curriculum, patrons and ethos of Barrowfield Community School. Read on line. PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 3 | A request for financial assistance to the Gulbenkian Foundation. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 2 | Correspondence | |||||
| 1 | Letter to Dr. T. R. Bone, Principal of Jordanhill College of Education, requesting support for Barrowfield Community School. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 2 | Correspondence sent by John McLeod from the Contemporary Violence Research Centre, Oxford University, to John MacBeath from Jordanhill College of Education and community leaders in Barrowfield about conducting research in Barrowfield. Includes photocopy of an article titled Towards a Radical Reform of Education by Jack Goody from New Society, 30 March 1978. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1978 | ||||
| 3 | Reports and papers | |||||
| 1 | Scotland Road Community Trust: Our lives in our hands. | 1973 | ||||
| 2 | Barrowfield Community School Progress Report. | n.d. | ||||
| 3 | Free School Handbook. Second Edition. | n.d. | ||||
| 4 | Our Education Must Be For Liberation: The Dag Hammarskjold Seminar on Education and Training and Alternatives in Education in African Countries. President Nyerers’s speech to the Dag Hammarskjold seminar on education. | 1974 | ||||
| 5 | Scottish Council for Civil Liberties. Discussion Paper – Children’s Rights Conference. | 1978 | ||||
| 6 | Report on Barrowfield. | n.d. | ||||
| 7 | Report on field research in Barrowfield, Glasgow. John McLeod, Contemporary Violence Research Centre, University of Oxford. | 1978 | ||||
| 8 | The Barrowfield Alternative. John MacBeath. | n.d. | ||||
| 9 | Barrowfield Community School… its philosophy, history and operation. Brian Addison and Margaret Graham. | n.d. | ||||
| 10 | Barrowfield Community School, Glasgow: an alternative for education in a multi-deprived community. J E C MacBeath. | 1976 | ||||
| 11 | Barrowfield Community School: Is there a need for such a school in Barrowfield? | n.d. | ||||
| 12 | Goodbye Free School, Hello Special Unit. | 1977 | ||||
| 4 | News cuttings | |||||
| 1 | Article from the Daily Record about Barrowfield titled ‘Pupils in a class of their own – for making history.’ Read on line. | 1973 | ||||
| 2 | Handmade booklet about local and community political decision making containing news cuttings from various sources. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | c.1973 | ||||
| 3 | Article from the Scottish Educational Journal which mentions Barrowfield Community School. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1973 | ||||
| 5 | Photographs
One photograph from the Glasgow Herald of children and teacher in a classroom at Barrowfield Community School. View on line. |
n.d. | ||||
| 6 | Ephemera
Print out of posts to the Hidden Glasgow Discussion Forum regarding Barrowfield Community School. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. |
2007 | ||||
| 2 | IWW publications | |||||
| 1 | Preamble to the Industrial Workers of the World. | n.d. | ||||
| 2 | Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology. Edited by Joyce L. Kornbluh. | 1988 | ||||
| 3 | The Industrial Unionist. No. 2. | n.d. | ||||
| 4 | Industrial Worker: Official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World. Nos. 1527-1528, 1697-1698. | 1990-2007 | ||||
| 5 | The General Strike For Industrial Freedom. Pamphlet. | 1946 | ||||
| 6 | Proceedings of the First Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World. | 1905 | ||||
| 7 | A Union For All Workers: Industrial Workers of the World. Pamphlet. | n.d. | ||||
| 8 | What Is The IWW? Pamphlet. | n.d. | ||||
| 9 | Unemployment and the Machine. Pamphlet. | n.d. | ||||
| 10 | Coal Mines and Coal Miners: The Story of a Great Industry and the Men Who Work in It. | n.d. | ||||
| 3 | Bratach Dubh Pulications | |||||
| 1 | The Angry Brigade. Bratach Dubh Documents no. 1. | 1978 | ||||
| 2 | Critique of Syndicalist Methods: Trade-unionism to anarcho-syndicalism. Alfredo M. Bonanno. Bratach Dubh Anarchist Pamphlets no. 2. | n.d | ||||
| 4 | Emma Goldman | |||||
| 1 | Trotsky Protests Too Much. Emma Goldman. Published by The Anarchist Communist Federation. | n.d. | ||||
| 2 | Anarchism and other essays. Emma Goldman. Dover Publications. | 1969 | ||||
| 5 | Freedom Press | |||||
| 1 | Max Stirner’s Egoism. John P. Clark. | 1976 | ||||
| 2 | ABC of Anarchism. Alexander Berkman. | 1942 | ||||
| 3 | The Wilhelmshaven Revolt. Icarus. | 1944 | ||||
| 4 | The Two Communisms. R. Corn. Freedom Publications no. 2. | n.d. | ||||
| 5 | The May Days Barcelona 1937. | 1987 | ||||
| 6 | Workers In Stalin’s Russia. M. L. Berneri | 1949 | ||||
| 7 | About Anarchism. Nicolas Walter. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1977 | ||||
| 8 | The Raven: Anarchist Quarterly. Nos. 1, 33. | c.1987-c.1996 | ||||
| 9 | Anarchism and Selfishness. Donald Rooum. An offprint from The Raven Volume 1 (1987) 251-259. | 1987 | ||||
| 10 | Wildcat: ABC of Bosses. Anarchist comics by Donald Rooum. | 1991 | ||||
| 6 | Guy Aldred | |||||
| 1 | Michel Bakunin Communist. Guy Aldred. Published by The Bakunin Press, Glasgow. | 1920 | ||||
| 2 | Communism: Story of the Communist Party. Guy A. Aldred. Published by The Strickland Press. | 1943 | ||||
| 3 | A Call to Manhood and other studies in social struggle. 26 essays by Guy A. Aldred. Published by The Strickland Press. | 1944 | ||||
| 7 | Publications | |||||
| 1 | Bolshevism Promises and Reality: An Appraisal of the Results of the Marxist Dictatorship over Russia. G. Maximov. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1937 | ||||
| 2 | Does God Exist? Twelve Proofs of the Inexistance of God as Presented in a Lecture by Sebastien Faure. | n.d. | ||||
| 3 | Flashlights of the Amsterdam Congress. Daniel De Leon. | 1904 | ||||
| 4 | Anarchism and Formal Organizations. Research Group One. No. 23. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1977 | ||||
| 5 | Selected Writings. Errico Malatesta. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 6 | Anarchism & Law. Alexei Borovoi. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 7 | Catechism of the Revolutionist. Sergei Nechayev. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1989 | ||||
| 8 | Message of a Wise Kabouter. Roel Van Duyn. | 1972 | ||||
| 9 | Marx Engels Lenin: Anarchism and Anarco-syndicalism. Progress Publishers, Moscow. | 1972 | ||||
| 10 | Anarchism: arguments for and against. Albert Meltzer. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1981 | ||||
| 11 | Mutual Aid. Petr Kropotkin. | n.d. | ||||
| 12 | Ten days that shook the university. On the poverty of student life. Situationist International. | 1973 | ||||
| 13 | Introduction to the Anarchist Communist Association. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1979 | ||||
| 14 | Anarchist Economics: an alternative for a world in crisis. Abraham Guillen. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 15 | God and the State. Michael Bakunin. | n.d. | ||||
| 16 | Workers’ Councils. Published by Southern Advocate for Workers’ Councils, Melbourne. | 1948 | ||||
| 17 | Ethics and American Unionism. Sam Weiner. A Libertarian League Publication. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1958 | ||||
| 18 | Underdogs vs. Upperdogs: A picture-story of the struggle against social injustice. Jim peck. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1951 | ||||
| 19 | Evolution and Revolution. Elisee Reclus. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 20 | Poll Tax Rebellion. Danny Burns. | 1992 | ||||
| 21 | Of Man and Revolution: An Anarchist Vision. Michael Tobin. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 22 | Origenes Del Movimiento Anarquista En China por Albert Meltzer. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 23 | Under the Fifth Rib. H.T. Derrett. Published by Anarchist Communist Federation, Glasgow. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 24 | Why I Won’t Vote: arguments for abstention from Anarchy 27. Introduction by R. Lynn. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 25 | The Source: Independent Monthly Magazine. No. 1. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 26 | Glasgow Peoples Press: Clydeside Alternative Monthly. Nos. 4-5. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1977-1978 | ||||
| 27 | Hammer and Tongs: Bulletin of the Lower Clyde Shipyard Workers. No. 10. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 28 | Women of the Gestapo. Richard Baxter. | 1943 | ||||
| 29 | Jail Journal and other writings. Richard Carlile. Edited and arranged by Guy Aldred. | 1942 | ||||
| 30 | Education: an anarchist approach. Farquhar McLay. Autonomy Press. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1983 | ||||
| 31 | Manifesto of the Communist Party. Karl Marx and Frecerick Engels. | 1942 | ||||
| 32 | The Case for Socialism. Socialist Party of Great Britain. | 1962 | ||||
| 33 | Marxism and Modern Art: An approach to social realism. F. D. Klingender. Marxism Today series no. 3. | 1943 | ||||
| 34 | Karl Marx: His life and teaching. Zelda Kahan-Coates. British Socialist Party. | 1918 | ||||
| 35 | The Socialist Reconstruction of Society. Daniel De Leon. Photocopy. | 1980 | ||||
| 36 | Milestones in Working Class History. Norman Longmate. | 1975 | ||||
| 37 | The Scottish People 1840-1940: A social and economic history. Published by the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum. CD-ROM containing resources including images, essays and statistical evidence. | 1997 | ||||
| 38 | Is Labour Government the way to Socialism? Published by the Socialist Party of Great Britain. | 1946 | ||||
| 39 | Wage Labout and Capital. Karl Marx. | 1952 | ||||
| 40 | The Hell Myth. Dr. Walter Walsh. Free Religious Addresses No. 221. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1923 | ||||
| 41 | The Communist Movement. A Personal Investigation by Dr. A. Shadwell. | 1925 | ||||
| 42 | An Introduction to the Philosophy of Herbert Spencer. Professor W. H. Hudson. | 1904 | ||||
| 43 | Trade Unionism and Political Action. Joe McDonald. | 1955 | ||||
| 44 | I Appeal Unto Caesar: The case of the conscientous objector. Mrs Henry Hobhouse. | n.d. | ||||
| 45 | What is Morality? George Whithead. | 1925 | ||||
| 46 | The Slave Farm: being letters from Alf Budden to a fellow farm slave and comrade in revolt. Socialist Party of Canada. | 1914 | ||||
| 47 | The Commune of Paris: Its Story and Meaning. James Leatham. | n.d. | ||||
| 48 | Workers’ Control. Direct Action Pamphlets no. 4. | n.d. | ||||
| 49 | The Commune. Vol. II, no. 13. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1929 | ||||
| 50 | Preparing for Non-Violent Direct Action. A Peace News/CND Publication. | 1984 | ||||
| 51 | The Silent Killers: New developments in gas and germ weapons. David Bays. | n.d. | ||||
| 52 | Anarchist Communism: Its basis and principles. Freedom Pamphlets. | n.d. | ||||
| 53 | Spain’s Civil War. Harry Browne. Seminar Studies in History. | 1984 | ||||
| 54 | John Maclean: Educator of the Working Class. James D. Young. Clydeside Press. | 1988 | ||||
| 55 | Poll Tax Handbook. Co-produced by Scottish Trades Union Congress; Scottish Council for Civil Liberties; Scottish Local Government Information Unit. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1989 | ||||
| 56 | Trades Councils. Joe McDonald. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1930 | ||||
| 57 | The Rights of Labour according to John Ruskin. Arranged by Thomas Barclay. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 58 | A Public Nuisance: Tales of adventure & a spirit of revolt, Glasgow Anarchists 1974 to 1986. Jim McFarlane. Photocopy from the Edinburgh Review. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 59 | The Working Class Against Fascism. G. Dimitrov. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1935 | ||||
| 60 | New Beacon Review. No. 1. | 1985 | ||||
| 61 | Killed on the picket line 1984: The Story of David Gareth Jones. Mark Jones. | 1985 | ||||
| 62 | Two Pages from Roman History. Daniel De Leon. Socialist Labour Party. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 63 | The Origin of Madness. Dr M. E. Elsarrag. | 1985 | ||||
| 64 | Asylum to Anarchy. Claire Baron. | 1987 | ||||
| 65 | Anarchism: Arguments for and against. Albert Meltzer. Read on line. | 1986 | ||||
| 66 | As We Don’t See It. Solidarity London. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 67 | Rent Strike! The Clydebank Rent Struggles of the 1920s. Sean Damer. A Clydebank People’s History Pamphlet. Read on line and download options. |
1982 | ||||
| 68 | Fighting Back Against Unemployment. Produced by Clyde Action. | n.d. | ||||
| 69 | Class Health and Profit. Ian Gibson. | n.d. | ||||
| 70 | The Singer Strike, Clydebank, 1911. Glasgow Labour History Workshop. | 1989 | ||||
| 71 | Workers City: The Real Glasgow Stands Up. Edited by Farquhar McLay. Clydeside Press. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1988 | ||||
| 72 | The Clydebank Blitz. I. M. M. MacPhail. | 1995 | ||||
| 73 | Severely Dealt With: Growing up in Belfast and Glasgow. John Taylor Caldwell. | 1993 | ||||
| 74 | Windscale: A summary of the evidence and the argument. The Guardian. | 1970s | ||||
| 75 | News From Nowhere. William Morris. Edited by James Redmond. | 1976 | ||||
| 76 | Authority and Delinquency: a study in the psychology of power. Alex Comfort. | 1970 | ||||
| 77 | Feminism As Anarchism. Lynne Farrow. Black Bear Pamphlet No. 2. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | n.d. | ||||
| 8 | Books on Education | |||||
| 1 | The Child’s Discovery of Space. Jean and Simonne Sauvy. Read on line, PDF and other downloads, cover pages. | 1974 | ||||
| 2 | Education and the Working Class. Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden. Read on line, PDF and other downloads, cover pages. | 1966 | ||||
| 3 | English Progressive Schools. Robert Skidelsky. Read on line, PDF and other downloads, cover pages. | 1969 | ||||
| 4 | Reading, How To. Herbert Kohl. Read on line, PDF and other downloads, cover pages. | 1976 | ||||
| 5 | The Comprehensive School. Robin Pedley. Read on line, PDF and other downloads, cover pages. | 1970 | ||||
| 6 | Children in Distress. Alec Clegg and Barbara Megson. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1971 | ||||
| 7 | State School. R. F. Mackenzie. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1973 | ||||
| 8 | The Little Red School Book. Soren Hansen and Jesper Jensen. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1971 | ||||
| 9 | Compulsory Miseducation. Paul Goodman. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover page only. | 1972 | ||||
| 10 | Teaching as a Subversive Activity. Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1983 | ||||
| 11 | Teaching Controversial Issues. Robert Stradling, Michael Noctor, Bridget Baines. | 1984 | ||||
| 12 | A Dominie’s Log: The story of a Scottish teacher. A.S. Neill. | 1986 | ||||
| 13 | The Progress of Education: a searching discussion of school education opening new paths to learning and teaching. Jerome S. Bruner. | 1960 | ||||
| 14 | Learning. J. Charles Jones. | 1967 | ||||
| 15 | The Home and the School: a study of ability and attainment in the Primary School. J.W.B. Douglas. | 1973 | ||||
| 16 | Free Way to Learning: Educational Alternatives in Action. Edited by David Head. | 1974 | ||||
| 17 | Nurseries Now: a fair deal for parents and children. Hughes, Mayall, Moss, Perry, Petrie, and Pinkerton. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. | 1980 | ||||
| 18 | Patterns of Infant Care in an Urban Community. John and Elizabeth Newson. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1966 | ||||
| 19 | Soviet Education. Nigel Grant. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1968 | ||||
| 20 | How Children Fail. John Holt. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1975 | ||||
| 21 | Educating the Intelligent. Michael Hutchinson and Christopher Young. | 1962 | ||||
| 22 | The Impact of Robbins. Richard Layard, John King and Claus Moser. Read on Line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1969 | ||||
| 23 | Priority Education: an account of the Liverpool project. Eric Midwinter. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1972 | ||||
| 24 | The Burnston School Strike. B. Edwards. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1974 | ||||
| 25 | The Growth of Understanding in the Young Child: a brief introduction to Piaget’s Work. Nathan Isaacs. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1969 | ||||
| 26 | Starting School. A Citizen 2000 Booklet. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1988 | ||||
| 27 | Freedom – Not License!: the world famous author of Summerhill answers important questions about the everyday problems of child rearing. A. S. Neill. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1966 | ||||
| 28 | The Free School. W. Kenneth Richmond. | 1973 | ||||
| 29 | Childrens Rights – Extinction or Rebirth. Scottish Council for Civil Liberties. Read on line, PDF and other downloads. Cover pages. | 1978 | ||||
| 9 | Ephemera
Includes Charlie Baird’s Community Worker business card and a postcard from John Jnr. sent from an anarchist conference in Barcelona. |
c.1993 | ||||