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List of self-managed social centres in the United Kingdom

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Coverage

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Also

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  • Expand individual projects eg Star and Shadow
  • Whats This Place?

List

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  • Maybe better as list?

Current projects

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Name Location Established Reference
1 in 12 Club Bradford 1988 [2]
56a Infoshop London 1991 [3]
Aberdeen Social Centre Aberdeen 2019 [4]
Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh Edinburgh 1997 [5]
BASE Bristol 1995 (squatted), 2006 (owned) [3]
Blackcurrent Centre Northampton 1989 [3]
Casa Liverpool 2000 [6]
Common House London 2013 [3]
Cowley Club Brighton 2002 [7]
DeCentre at Freedom Press London 2016 [3]
DIY Space For London London Collective 2012, opened 2015 [8]
Feminist Library London 1975 [9]
Field London 2010s [4]
Focus E15 Sylvia's Corner London 2010s [4]
Gentileza Cardiff 2019 [10]
Glasgow Autonomous Space Glasgow 2016 [4]
Ground Hull 2010s [4]
London Action Resource Centre London 1999 bought, 2002 opened [11]
MayDay Rooms London 2013 [3][4]
Next from Nowhere Liverpool 2010s [3][4]
Oxford Action Resource Centre Oxford 2005 [3][4]
Partisan Manchester 2017 [12]
Star and Shadow Newcastle upon Tyne 2006, new location 2018 [3]
Sumac Centre Nottingham Current building since 2001 [13]
Warehouse Café Birmingham 2010s [3][4]
Wharf Chambers Leeds 2010 [3][4]

Past projects

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Name Location Established Reference
121 Centre London 1989 - 1999 [14]
491 Gallery London 2001 - 2013 [15]
Aardvark Centre Birmingham 1990s [16]
Bank of Ideas London 2011 - 2012 [17]
Basement Manchester 2005 - [18]
BIT London 1968 - 1970s [19]
Bloomsbury Social Centre London 2011 - 2011 [20]
Button Factory London ? - 2001 [21]
Centro Iberico London 1982 - ? [22]
Ex-Grand Banks London 2004 - 2004 [23]
Focus E15 Open House London 2014 - 2014 [24]
George's X Chalkboard Glasgow 1990s [16]
Heartcure Sheffield 2018-2019 [25]
Hive London 2015 - 2017 [26]
Medina House Brighton 2001 [27]
Radical Dairy London 2001 - 2003 [22]
rampART London 2004 [28]
Red and Black Umbrella Cardiff 2011-2015 [29]
Really Free School London 2011 - 2011 [30]
Sabotaj Brighton 2011 - 2011 [31]
Spike Surplus Scheme London 1999 [15]
Square London 2000s [22]
Subrosa Manchester 2013 [18]
Wapping Autonomy Centre London 1981 - 1982 [32]
Warzone Centre Belfast 1986-2003, 2011-2018 [33]

References

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  2. ^ Wakefield S., 2003, Not for Rent: Conversations with Creative Activists in the U.K., Evil Twin Publications, ISBN 0-9712972-9-0
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "The social centres roundup". Freedom. London. 2018-09-23. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Social Centres Map". Organise Magazine. Organise!. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
  5. ^ Lacey, Anita (2005). "Networked Communities". Space and Culture. 8 (3): 286–301. doi:10.1177/1206331205277350.
  6. ^ "Keeping the spirit of solidarity alive 20 years after Robbie Fowler backed Liverpool dockers". The Mirror. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  7. ^ "The Guv'nor's spirit lives on". The Argus. 7 January 2003. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007.
  8. ^ "DIY Space For London finds venue - The Wire". The Wire Magazine. 18 June 2015. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  9. ^ Sizemore (26 February 2007). "Your Feminist Library Needs You!". Londonist. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference SCB1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ Katzeff,Steen & Hoogenhuijze, (eds) (2014). The City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present. PM PRESS. p. 167. ISBN 978-1-60486-683-4. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  12. ^ "Welcome to Partisa". Freedom. London. 2018-11-29. Archived from the original on 2019-03-24. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
  13. ^ Pusey, Andre. "Social Centres and the New Cooperativism of the Common". Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action. 4 (1). OCLC 744314571.
  14. ^ McHenry, Keith; Bufe, Chaz (2015). The Anarchist Cookbook. Tucson, Arizona: See Sharp Press. ISBN 9781937276782.
  15. ^ a b Diane Taylor (2008-08-27). "Positive occupation". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
  16. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference N4R was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  17. ^ Lizzy Davies and Peter Walker (30 January 2012). "Occupy London: evicted protesters criticise bailiffs' 'heavy-handed' tactics". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
  18. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference ManchesterAgain was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  19. ^ Harris, Jonathan; Grunenberg, Christopher (2005). Summer of love: psychedelic art, social crisis and counterculture in the 1960s. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0853239291.
  20. ^ Finchett-Maddock, Lucy (2017-10-12). Protest, Property and the Commons: Performances of Law and Resistance. Routledge. ISBN 9781138570450.
  21. ^ "Police raid 'anarchist' base". 1 April 2001. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  22. ^ a b c Chatterton, P; Hodkinson, S (2006). "Autonomy in the city". City. 10 (3): 305–315. doi:10.1080/13604810600982222.
  23. ^ "Today in London's squatting history: Ex-Grand Banks social centre opens, 2004". past tense. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  24. ^ Watt (2016). "A Nomadic War Machine in the Metropolis: En/Countering London's 21st Century Housing Crisis with Focus E15". City. 20 (2): 297–320.
  25. ^ Newsroom (4 December 2018). "New vegan centre in Sheffield is the first of its kind". Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020. {{cite news}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  26. ^ Bartholomew, Emma (20 September 2017). "The Hive shares its 'secret': Founders of radical Hackney cultural experiment want to change planning law - and the world". Hackney Gazette. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  27. ^ Fitch, Rachel (21 October 2006). "Squatters are finally evicted". Argus. Archived from the original on 24 April 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  28. ^ "Social centre squatters finally evicted after five year battle". East London advertiser. 19 October 2009. Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  29. ^ Cite error: The named reference Cardiffpub was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  30. ^ Jamieson, Alastair; Leach, Ben (6 March 2011). "The middle class serial squatters exploiting the law". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  31. ^ "Court evicts Brighton Taj squatters". Argus. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  32. ^ Meltzer, Albert (January 1996), I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels: Sixty Years of Commonplace Life and Anarchist Agitation, AK Press, ISBN 9781873176931, retrieved Dec 28, 2013
  33. ^ "The Future Was (AND IS) Punk – The Warzone Dialectogram Exhibition". Queen's University Belfast. The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Retrieved 27 May 2019.