Commons image By John Pateman My first article, Decolonising Public Libraries, explained the history and context of public libraries. This second article, Building a Library Campaign, covers... Continue reading
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The book will be available here By John Pateman Public libraries are not what they appear to be. The public library is often presented as a safe,... Continue reading
Continuing the Our Culture series, John Pateman exposes the hidden class politics of Britain’s public libraries. Far from being neutral spaces of learning, he argues they were... Continue reading
Libraries and communism are like Marx and Engels – you can’t have one without the other. Marx did some of his most important work in the British... Continue reading