Site News February 2019

Only a couple of new articles during January as the main focus has been on uploading new documents to the archive. ALmost all of the Steve Lambert archive is now available, although indexing is, as always, far from complete. Descriptions and Contents need adding for almost all items, but initial tagging is complete.

You can find a list of the Steve Lambert material here https://green-history.uk/library/doc-archive/category/tag?tagid=68. It starts with a 1975 "Statement of Aims" document from the Ecology Party and moves through a lot of material relating to the foundation and early days of the London Ecology Party which Steve and Jean were highly involved in. 

This includes some material from the successful long term campaign against transporting nuclear waste from Dungeness by train through the capital on its way to storage in Cumbria.

Also included is a leaflet for Paul Tyler's 1976 by-election campaign in Walsall - the first national election entered by the EP and where many early activists were drafted in to help including Steve as a brand new member and David Taylor.

Undoubtably this material will generate several interesting articles. As well as London, the documents awaiting processing include some on the early days of Oxford and Bristol Eco/Green parties.

Preparing the next tranche of material has generated a short piece on the development of the party newsletter - from "Alliance" through various iterations of "Eco News" to "Green Activist" and "Green World". See articles/publications/econews-greenworld

We would also like to draw your attention to the articles on our Future Plans and the related Fundraising Appeal appeal. There is a lot of work to do and you can help very easily by using the Donate button on the left. 

 

Site News December 2018

Three new articles and a couple of blog posts to draw your attention to this month.

David Taylor has published a major piece on the The Green Collective - a different way of doing things.

Andrew Pearman has contributed a detailed article looking at the reasons behind the rise of the Green Party in 1989 and including some interesting reflections on lessons for today. A synopsis is available here: Out of the Blue - The Politics of the Green Party, and the full paper can be downloaded from the Document Library.

Both of these are grist to the mill of the Green School in February. A suggested reading list for the school will be published here before the Christmas holiday.

Another topic that will form background for the school is the relationship between environmentalism and ecology - David has provided a brief blog post this month as a starter for the discussion. Roger's blog for November is concerned with the problems of organising and cataloging material on the site. 

We would also like to draw your attention to the articles on our Future Plans and the related Fundraising Appeal appeal. There is a lot of work to do and you can help very easily by using the Donate button on the left. 

New documents in the Library this month include the first tranche of Steve Lambert's documents which he donated at the fundraising launch. Now the dark evenings and wet days have well set in Roger is hoping to get a lot more published before the New Year...

 

Support our Autumn Appeal

Thanks to your generous response to our Crowdfunder in March 2018 we raised enough money to put the website on a secure footing for the next two years. 

Now we are starting to focus on the running costs and future development costs.

Our Autumn Appeal has two primary objectives -

• upgrading to a A3 flatbed scanner to enable us to bring larger format items into the library. Specifically we have a set of 1980s Econews and many local newsheets which were produced on A3 newspaper style and we would like to make these available to you
• We now have a significant backlog of material needing scanning and we would like to hire some help with this work. We will be offering £8 cash per hour to recruit a student in in NE Cornwall to do the work and we need to fund this.

There are also some further extensions to the project which we would like to move forward with - full details of these and the above items are on the main fundraiser page - but you could simply donate now with the button below - our target is a modest £600 for the basic costs and a stretch goal of a further £1300 to cover further developments over the coming year.

Thank you for your support

You might also be interested in our future plans for taking the project to the next level.