Anarchist Archive Collection

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About this collection:

The Anarchist Archive Collection contains select digitized material from the Anarchist Archive.

The Anarchist Archive is devoted to the study of anarchism, with a special focus on the history of the movement in Canada.

History and mandate:

Founded in 2005 by Director Allan Antliff, the Anarchist Archive has a special mandate to collect and preserve anarchist-related materials, including posters, photographs, art work, videos, audio recordings, journals, pamphlets and zines, books, oral histories, correspondence (written and digital), organizational records, and other items.

Holdings include the papers of:

British anarchist and art critic Herbert Read
Activist and prison abolitionist Jim Campbell
Keith McHenry, founder of the international activist organization Food Not Bombs
Ann Hansen, author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla

Issues relevant to the collection include:

Indigenous struggles
Anti-war activism
Ecological militancy
Prison abolition
Decolonization
Feminism
Queer politics
Radicalism in the arts

Image from cover of Mob Against the State in the David Barbarash collection.

Resource type

Collection

Subject

Location

Canada, , Canada

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Collection Details

: Items 711
: Last Updated 2023-09-08

Subcollections (5)

There are no visible subcollections.

Works (701)

List of items in this collection
Title	Date Created	Date Added	Visibility
Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Herbert Read, May 14 [1944?] This work also belongs to: Barbara Hepworth Letters to Herbert Read - University of Leeds and University of Victoria, Herbert Read Collection	1944?-05-14	2022-03-29	Public
Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Herbert Read, May 17, 1944 This work also belongs to: Barbara Hepworth Letters to Herbert Read - University of Leeds and University of Victoria, Herbert Read Collection	1944-05-17	2022-03-29	Public
Letter from Montgomery Belgion to Herbert Read, August 22, 1944 This work also belongs to: Herbert Read Collection	1944-08-22	2023-05-19	Public
Letter from Lilian Bowes Lyon to Herbert Read, August 29, 1944 This work also belongs to: Herbert Read Collection	1944-08-29	2023-05-19	Public
Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Herbert Read, September 30, 1944 This work also belongs to: Barbara Hepworth Letters to Herbert Read - University of Leeds and University of Victoria, Herbert Read Collection	1944-09-30	2022-03-29	Public
Letter from J.R. Ackerley to Herbert Read, [November, 1944?] This work also belongs to: Herbert Read Collection	1944-11?	2022-12-08	Public
Postcard from Peggy Guggenheim [to Herbert Read], [between 1945 and 1961] This work also belongs to: Herbert Read Collection	1945/1961	2023-10-18	Public
Letter from E. M. Forster to Herbert Read, February 15, 1945 This work also belongs to: Herbert Read Collection	1945-02-15	2022-11-10	Public
Letter from Lilian Bowes Lyon to Herbert Read, May 13, 1948 This work also belongs to: Herbert Read Collection	1945-05-13	2023-05-19	Public
Letter from Peggy Guggenheim to Herbert Read, November 12, 1945 This work also belongs to: Herbert Read Collection	1945-11-12	2023-10-18	Public