Library update (Aug. 2025)

Juan Peiro ‘one of the most outstanding anarcho-syndicalists of the first four decades of the 20th century’ is the subject of an expanded biography by his son, José. Three related articles listed at: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/kprt93 

London Anarchist Bookfair 2025 is on Saturday 20 September in the Waterloo Graffiti Tunnel. See https://anarchistbookfair.london/ and https://www.leakestreetarches.london/ 

Sparrows’ Nest ‘Unlike the grand halls of university libraries or the neatly organized shelves of museum archives, the Sparrows Nest is tucked away in the living room of a house, a space that reflects the grassroots nature of the project.’    
https://anarchistnews.org/content/sparrows-nest-preserving-anarchist-history-nottingham 

Black Flag Anarchist Review (Summer 2025) is out. Top piece: ‘John Couzin, in Memoriam’ by James Kelman See https://www.blackflag.org.uk/ 

Alan MacSimóin Collection – ‘a wonderful collection for researchers interested in left wing activism in Dublin over the past few decades’ now held in Dublin City Library and Archive https://www.dublincity.ie/library/blog/alan-macsimoin-collection-dublin-city-library-and-archive 

Klemenčič An Anarchist In Honolulu: The Hawaiian Writings of Andrej Klemenčič ‘Aside from a few outdated conceptions, generalizations, and poor turns of phrase, Andrej was fully anti-colonial, anti-racist, and unrepentantly anarchist.’ https://thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/an-anarchist-in-honolulu-the-hawaiian-writings-of-andrej-klemencic/ 

Expropriators Imanol’s researches continue: two pieces on ‘MLE Expropriator Groups and Their Activities in France’; ‘Fresh Information about the Underground in France, plus MLE Dirty Linen’ and an account of the most spectacular expropriation – ‘or so it seems to me at any rate – mounted by Spanish libertarians on French soil’: ‘Robbing the Belgian Royal Family’ available via https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/wwq18c 

Scanned treasures Too much to fit in here but you can see the latest ones via https://archive.org/details/@kate_sharpley 
Our full list of scanned ephemera is at: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/9320sp 
The full list of scanned books and pamphlets is at: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/bzkjs6 

Libraries Recent feedback on the Georges Pilotelle [KSL 117] and Freedom Press Library [KSL 116] articles, asked what we think are ‘the wider purposes of an anarchistic library’. Anyone read good historic accounts of what other anarchist libraries aimed to do? https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/8pk132