August 2026 Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin online
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 121, August 2026 has just been posted on our site: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/b5mnpm. The pdf is up at https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/mgqqw4.Contents
Agnes’s Candle by N. O. Bonzo (and Agnes Inglis) "And they will peruse these old records of voices and they will repeat your words and speak your names" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/xwdf99.
Clara Gilbert Cole: brief notes "Parliament is used to keep the rich rich, and the poor poor, and the Labour Party is impotent to alter this." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/95x893.
Prison Knitting by Clara Gilbert Cole "With the click of my needles I knit, knit, knit, / Not like Madame Defarge for heads to be cut" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/s4mzn2.
María Bruguera Pérez (1915-1992) by Joan Pinyana Mormeneo "She is and will remain identified as one of the many who fought from within the Libertarian Movement for the much-needed emancipation and comprehensive equality of all women." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/q83dwq.
Albert Meltzer, Our Comrade – Thirty Years On by the KSL Collective "he still influences how we think about anarchism and history, and what the Kate Sharpley Library does." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/z8wczj.
Ariane Gransac is dead: a life that was intense, rebellious and anarchist by Tomás Ibáñez "For upwards of ten years, she threw herself body and soul into the libertarian struggle against Francoism, alongside Octavio Alberola, taking part in nearly every action mounted by the FIJL, many of them under the aegis of the First of May Group." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/mpg6nj.
Anarchist solidarity with the Miners' Strike : call for interviews [2026] "Were you involved ... Would you be up for talking about it?" https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/83bn2g.
Notes on the Cologne anarcho-syndicalists and the Miners’ Strike by Ralph Aurand "Cologne has only a million inhabitants. And we always made sure, we were not just moving around in our own bubble." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/s4mzmw.
Into The Valley… by A Bristol Miners Support Group "The culture-shock when we refused the meat sandwiches led onto a discussion about veganism and we managed to explain why we weren’t dying of malnutrition. This was quite amazing, as before the strike we would have been run outta town for being deviants…." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/3ffdd2.
Some Sources on the Spanish Revolution of 1936 [Digitised accounts by Augustin Souchy, Gaston Leval and (Glasgow's) Workers’ Free Press; Cipriano Mera, Suceso Portales and Mika Etchebéhère; and 'Versus the State : Theses on War, Revolution and Proletariat', a new book of essays by Agustín Guillamón] https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/c868x9.
Library update (July 2026) [Suceso Portales (again), The Libertarian Maquis in Catalonia, free pamphlets for subscribers, Stuart Christie profiled by the BBC in 1981, and thoughts on libraries: "Luigi Balsamini […] has some interesting thoughts on why materials might not be preserved: ‘The troubled history of many activists […] fear of falling into a web of repression […] a general distrust must be recorded towards anything with a hint of “museumification”’"]. https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/gqnngx.