Inside the Cunliffe Collection: The Revolutionary Aesthetics of Black Mask Magazine.
Bruce Wilkinson discusses the set of Black Mask magazine, produced by the 1960s New York anarchist group of the same name, in the Dave Cunliffe Collection.
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The Golden Tango: Ernest Wilson and his Most Varied Musical Career
Researched and written by Bruce Wilkinson and Dave Goulding Donated to the John Rylands Library Special Collections in September 2019,Continue Reading
Global Tapestry and Vegan Action: Environmental activism in the 1960s
From the early 1960s Dave Cunliffe and Tina Morris ran a small press which they used to produce poetry publicationsContinue Reading
The Golden Tango: Ernest Wilson’s Life in Music
Researched and written by Bruce Wilkinson and Dave Goulding Donated to the John Rylands Library Special Collections in September 2019,Continue Reading
Demanding the Impossible: Jeff Nuttall, Alexander Trocchi and the Situationist International
This is the second in a series of blogs outlining my research on Jeff Nuttall with a particular (but notContinue Reading
Stop the Tour: Two Protests One Ideal
In November 1969 the touring Springboks rugby union team visited Manchester inspiring two very different but interconnected anti-racism protests which this blog celebrates as part of Black History Month.
Hustler: Black Power, Mangrove and the Notting Hill Carnival
The Dave Cunliffe Archive held at the John Rylands Library is currently uncatalogued but holds approximately 5000 radical 1960s andContinue Reading
The Clitheroe Kid: Jeff Nuttall and All That Jazz
This blog highlights my initial PhD research constructing a brief biography of Jeff Nuttall. Poet, artist, musician and the authorContinue Reading
Cum on Feel the Noize: The Student Ephemera Collection as Musical Time Capsule
From 1969 to 1976 a University of Manchester Library initiative collected flyers, posters, letters and handbills distributed around the campusContinue Reading
The Dave Cunliffe Trial and the AS Byatt Conundrum
One of the joys of the John Rylands Library is working alongside clever colleagues happy to share their knowledge inContinue Reading