Kate Sharpley Library

Kate Sharpley Library prior to a libertarian Book Fair 2011 in San Francisco, Barry Pateman left

The Kate Sharpley Library ( KSL ) is a library in London, United Kingdom, and Berkeley, USA, to keep the material on the history of anarchism and make it accessible. The KSL are texts out to anarchism and the history of anarchism in English.

History

The Kate Sharpley Library was founded in 1979 as an archive of anarchists from Brixton in 1991 and reorganized. Namesake was an anarchist and antiwar in the time of the First World War.

Inventory and organization

The KSL has over two thousand historical books, three thousand brochures and more than two thousand periodicals in English, but larger holdings in French, Italian and Spanish. It is run entirely by volunteers volunteer. Donations and income are used to maintain the material.

Publications

The KSL publishes brochures and books on anarchism and the history of anarchism. Inter alia historical texts from the collection of the library to be reprinted, which otherwise would be difficult or inaccessible. From the KSL laid authors are, inter alia, Abel Paz, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Miguel Garcia, Albert Meltzer, David Nicholl and Antonio Téllez.

The activities of the KSL be in a quarterly, printed and documented online magazine available KSL. Published by the KSL material is mostly under a Creative Commons license ( by-nc - nd).

Kate Sharpley

The eponym of the KSL, Kate Sharpley, was a native of Deptford anarchist and antiwar, whose father, brother and friend were killed in the First World War. When they should receive the Medal for her family at the age of 22 from Queen Mary, she threw the Order of the Queen with the saying "If you like them so much you can have them. " Counter. (Eng. "If you so like, you can have it. " )

The face of the queen was scratched. Kate Sharpley was beaten by police, arrested and released after a few days without charge. After her marriage in 1922 she withdrew from anarchist activities back to a chance meeting with Albert Meltzer at a train station during an anti-fascist action. This led to encounters with younger activists.