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COUNTER-CULTURE / 
UNDERGROUND

Extensive collection of UK / US undergroundand alternative books, papers, magazines, comics, clippings, photos 
Original programmes, tickets, posters, photos of UK festivals 1967-1980
Black Power clippings and papers
Politics and culture clippings (1964-1970s)
Squatting, youth culture, cults, riots (1970s / 1980s)
Clippings and ephemera from IRA, Angry Brigade, Red Army Faction, SLA, Baader Meinhof
Arts Labs/Communes
Only known archive for the underground newspaper Friends (then Frendz) 1969-1972  

BEAT MOVEMENT

Fine collection of original beat books, journals, magazines, clippings, audio.
Dylan / Guthrie / Ramlin’ Jack Elliott
Bukowski
Henry Miller / Anais Nin
Outsider / Cult European fiction: Celine, Genet, Jan Cremer
Liverpool Poets

BACK TO THE LAND

Whole Earth Catalogues / Survival Scrapbook / Shelter
Alternative Technology Books & Magazines: Undercurrents, Vole, AD
Buckminster Fuller / Domebook

DRUGS

Extensive collection of clippings (1973-2016)
Collection of books and magazines 
Material on the Cannabis Liberation Movement

AN INDEX OF POSSIBILITIES/
WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS

An Index of Possibilities: An encyclopaedia for the New Enlightenment
Extensive archive of letters, memos, clippings, photos, promo materials + two packs of unopened books
Worlds Within Worlds: First popular book on scientific imagery

POSTER MAGAZINES

TV-Sci Fi Monthly
Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back
Additional collection of rare Star Wars material

NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS

Complete files of material written under pen name of Dick Tracy (1975-1982)
Collection of books by other NME writers 
Clippings files of significant NME articles plus some complete issues

MUSIC

Extensive collection of clippings, books and magazines
Extensive collection of vinyl, cds and tapes

1980s JOURNALISM

Journalism and correspondence: Sunday Times, Observer, The Guardian.
Environmental journalism for BBC Wildlife, Pluto Press, Cosmopolitan.

THE BEAST /
ANIMAL BOOKS

The Beast: Archive of one of the first animal liberation magazines (1979-1981)
Extensive correspondence files, books clippings
Weird & Wonderful Wildlife / The Book of Beasts: Material linked to these two illustrated books published in the 1980s

GREENPEACE BOOKS

History of work as global publishing for Greenpeace (1985-1992)
Collection of published books, records, poster mags, annual reports + extensive other material.

TREE NEWS

History of work on international magazine on Trees
Complete set of 11 issues (2000-2005)
Fine collection of tree books and other publications.

ENVIRONMENTAL ART

Books, journals, clippings and correspondence and material from the Life Arts project
Material on leading environment artists: Christo, Smithson, Beuys.

OCEANS

Commissioned by UN & Mario Soares Foundation in Lisbon to produce and edit global report on oceans for publication around the world by Cambridge University Press (1999)
Books, background material, library of ocean books and clippings

CREATIVE PROTEST

Extensive collection of material relating to creative forms of protest in three main areas: anti-nuclear, animal issues and environment
Also material in general files on Live Aid

DIGITAL REVOLUTION

Archive of major 15pp-article for The Telegraph magazine (Sept 1994) – first major article on digital revolution in UK and material published in the Telegraph’s digital supplement ‘Connected’.
Extensive material from key project: A History of Communications (1747-2000), with the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation and funded by Cable & Wireless. Books and clippings associated. Complete print-out of now-defunct website.
Extensive collection of early computer mags/cyberpunk books & clippings documenting birth of internet.
Historical material on early computer graphics. Archive and complete set of pictures of computer graphics book produced for Secker & Warburg in the early 80s.
Archive material from Cequel Plus (C++), an internet company in the mid-1990s.

CURIOUS FACTS

Archive material from four published books and set of six magazines ‘Curious Facts Monthly’. Extensive correspondence and contracts.
Archive material for Jonathan Ross tv series ‘Fantastic Facts’ based on CF. Complete set of original story ideas for the series.
Substantial collection of books of previous collections / collectors of curiosities and curious facts + history of curiousity (Charles Fort / Robert Ripley). 
Collection of Fortean Times.Sets of encyclopaedias 
Huge collection of Curious Facts clippings yet to be archived.

VERNACULAR 
ARCHITECTURE

Substantial library of books + material related to book project 
‘Handmade Houses: The World of Vernacular Architecture
Includes material on Disaster Housing and Eco-building

SCULPTURE / 
THE RODIN PROJECT

Material relating to book project ‘Garden of Heroes & Villains’, produced for Felix Dennis
Extensive collection of books on sculpture and sculptors: Moore, Brancusi • Full documentation of the ‘Rodin in Lewes’ exhibition and project (1990-1999).  Includes correspondence files, publicity material, proposals, documents, press coverage, photos, films, tv material. 
Extensive collection of books on Rodin, Camille Claudel , the Edwardian period and the Aesthetic Movement with material on Oscar Wilde, gay culture of the time, Greek sculpture, scenes in Paris and Boston and the history of E.P. Warren & John Marshall.

ART / PHOTOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATION

Extensive collection of books on history of both photography, art, illustration and allied arts + magazines and clippings

FILM

Extensive collection of books on history of cinema + magazines and clippings.
Collection of original press packs for major cult films including Apocalypse Now, Close Encounters, Star Wars, Superman, Quadrophenia.
Collection of several hundred VHS cassettes and DVDs • Collection of film posters

FICTION /
NEW JOURNALISM /
TRAVEL BOOKS

Extensive collection of novels from around the world • Big collection of American fiction + New Journalism including Ken Kesey, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote + numerous folders of clippings+ many books on writing, collections of interviews.
Books and clippings on the history of printing, the book, diaries, magazines, newspapers et al .
Collection of travel books and guides

SCIENCE FICTION
COMICS / GRAPHIC NOVELS

Extensive collection

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