Underground and Alternative Press Collection

*Titles in the Underground Alternative Press [Filed under ‘U’ in Microform cabinets]

This collection of underground magazines written in the sixties, seventies and eighties in the UK, including Brighton, is available on microform as a primary resource into subcultural movements such as New Age, Punk, Feminism, alternative comics, and other delights.

Action (South East London): Index 1976,

The Alternative (The) (Human politics): Index 1972,
Arts Labs Newsletter (Collective of artists, writers and printers): Index 1972,
Catonsville Roadrunner (The) (Revolutionary Christian action): Index 1972, 1973, 1974,
The Cornish Banner (The) (Quarterly Journal of the Cornish Nationalist Party: Index 1988,1989/90

Arse (Architects for a Really Socialist Environment): Index 1972,

Attila (Based around the Unicorn bookshop Brighton): Index 1972, 1973,
Barnsley Metropolitan
Bath Arts Workshop: Index 1976,
Big flame (Merseyside’s Socialist Newspaper): Index 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983,
Big Print (local libertarian socialist magazine, Aberdeen): Index 1979, 1980,
Birmingham Broadside: Index 1978,
Birmingham Street Press: Index 1972, 1973,
Black box news service (The first of the alternative news agencies in Britain)Index: 1972,
Brain damage (Anarchist graphic format for cartoonists and writers): Index 1989/90
Bright Times (Brighton magazine on the politics of liberation): Index 1976, 1977,
Bromley Broadsheet (1960-1970): Index 1974,
Cable Street Beat: Index 1989/90
Cardiff Peoples paper (Cardiff People’s Press): Index 1972,1973, 1976,
Case-Con (Alternative forum for Social workers): Index 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977,
Catalyst (Also related to White Panthers): Index 1972,1989/90

China-Cat Sunflower (Birmingham’s alternative newspaper): Index 1972,
Circus (also related to Bath Arts Workshop): Index 1976,
City Enquirer: Index 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981,
Cleveland wrecking yard info sheet (Free and independent information): Index 1972,
Common Ground (also related to Filthy lies): Index 1974,
Commune Movement (Formerly Ahimsa progress/communities): Index 1972,1974,
Communes Network: Index 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988,1989/90
Community Action (Radical professional journal): Index 1972,1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982,
Community Mirror (1970’s attempt to bridge divided Northern Irish communities): Index 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983,

Country Bizarre (All the lovely things that once enriched folks lives in the past): Index 1972,1973,
Covent Garden Community Association (community news sheet): Index 1979,
Cozmic Comics: Index 1972, 1973, 1974,
Cracker (Social issues in Edinburgh): Index 1972, 1973, 1974,
Dwarf News (Paper of the Dwarf movement also related to Whole Earth News): Index 1972, 1973
Encyclopaedia Psychedelica (Documenting a “consciousness craze” to “sweep the planet just in time to save it”: Index 1989/90
Everywoman (Feminist Journal): Index 1987, 1988,1989/90
Exeter Flying Post (Campaigning Community Newspaper): Index 1983, 1984,1985, 1986, 1987, 1988,
Fapto (Margate Kent, alternative culture): Index 1972,
Filthy lies (Merton, London community newspaper also related to Common Ground): Index 1972, 1973, 1974,
Foul (radical alternative to the mainstream football press): Index 1976,
Four the wardrobe (Edinburgh advocate for a non-violent society): Index 1972,
Freefone: Index 1972,
Friends/Frendz (Originally an alternative to Rolling stone magazine): Index 1972,
Gandalf’s garden (Seeking the sun in you): Index 1972,
Gateshead Street Press (community magazine 1974-5): Index 1976,
Genesis (also related to Bath Arts Workshop): Index 1976,
Glasgow News: Index 1972, 1974,
Global Tapestry (Anarcultural community magazine) : Index 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989/90
Grapevine: Index 1978,
Grass Eye (Manchester local culture/politics): Index 1972,
Grass Roots (also related to Birmingham Broadside): Index 1978,
Grass Roots (Nottingham community paper also related to Nottingham voice): Index 1978,
Green Anarchist: Index 1984,1985, 1986, 1987, 1988,
Hackney & Stoke Newington People’s Paper (First ‘People’s Paper’ for the London Borough of Hackney): Index 1980,
Hackney Action (also related to Hackney People’s Press): Index 1972, 1973, 1976,
Hackney Gasbag (also related to Hackney People’s Press): Index 1977, 1978,
Hackney Gutter Press (1970’s): Index 1980,
Hackney People’s Press (Amalgamation of Hackney Gutter Press and Hackney Action): Index 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985,
Home Grown (Europe’s first Dope magazine, London): Index 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982,
Horse feathers (Clydeside revolutionary left newspaper): Index 1972,
Image (The) (1971-4 a free forum for photographers and illustrators): Index 1974,
Ink. The other newspaper ( 1971-2 acting between guerrilla and the mainstream press): Index 1974,
Inside Out
Inside Story (Investigative politics/social issues): Index 1972, 1973,
International Times/IT (Pioneer in British underground press): Index 1972,1973,
In the making (A directory of proposed productive projects in self-management of alternative technology): Index 1983, 1984, 1985,
It Can’t Be (North London community paper): Index 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976,
Kite (Community paper for Kentish Town/Gospel Oak): Index 1972,1973,1974,1976,
Lancaster (and Morecombe) Free Press: Index 1972, 1973,
Leeds Other Paper (Community paper): Index 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984,1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989/90
Librarians for Social Change (Progressive political view of libraries): Index1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983,
Liverpool Free Press (Peoples paper): Index 1972, 1973, 1976, 1977,
Lower Down (Wandsworth and Battersea community paper 1974-7) : Index 1977,
Making Out (also related to Bath Arts Workshop): Index 1976,
Manchester Free Press (Community paper): Index 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980,
Manchester Left: Index 1988, 1989/90
Mantra (A non-sectarian alternative magazine, Southampton): Index 1972,
Mole (The) (Brighton based agitator & socialist forum): Index 1972
Mole Express (Politics, poetry, music, art Manchester also related to City Enquirer): Index 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978,
Muther Grumble (Alternative paper for North East England): Index 1972, 1973,
Nasty tales (The British parallel to West Coast US freak comic books): Index 1972,
Newswave (Journal of the British Independent Radio Movement): Index 1972,
North Devon Snail (The Snail): Index 1972, 1973,
Nottingham Voice (Community paper): Index 1978, 1979,
Open Secret (Journal of the Free Communications Group): Index 1972,
Ops Veda (First alternative paper in Sheffield): Index 1972,
Ostrich: Index 1976,
Pak-O-Lies (Media underground paper of the Liverpool Free Communications Group): Index 1972,
Paper Tiger (Alternative paper for Harrow and district): Index 1972, 1973,
Pavement (Militant community paper, London): Index 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988,
Press-Ups (Political activism, Scotland): Index 1972,
Preview (Bristol entertainment magazine 1971-3): Index 1977,
Private Eye: Index 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984,1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989/90
Project London Free (Free approach magazine): Index 1972,
RAP (Alternative paper, Rochdale): Index 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983,
Red Rat: The Journal of Abnormal Psychologists (Radical Psychology): Index 1972,
Re-Sister (Feminist Anarchist magazine): Index 1987, 1988, 1989/90
Resistance Comix (1970’s Northern Irish national liberation cartoons): Index 1980,
Response: (Earls Court community action) Index 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984,1985, 1986, 1987, 1989/90
Romano Drom (Newspaper of the National Gypsy Council): Index 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981,
Roots (Peace, information, ecology, action, poetry, activism, Edinburgh): Index 1972, 1973,
S.E.1 (South London community paper): Index 1977,
Seeds (Bristol’s new street press 1970-71): Index 1972,
Shocking Pink: Index 1988, 1989/90
Skelf (Glasgow, revolutionary writing between 1971-2): Index 1972,
Snail (The) (Co founded by Artist Peter Blake, regional paper of North Devon): Index 1972,
South West Newspaper: Index 1976,
SPAM (Baptist Mills community paper Bristol): Index 1972, 1973, 1974,
Spike (1972 Glasgow based agitation newspaper): Index 1972,
SPLIT (Offshoot of alternative rag International Times) Index: 1986,
Street Aid (Planning and urban environment collective, London): Index 1972, 1976,
Street Comix (‘Dealing death-blows to rational thinking’ 1971-2): Index 1972,
Street Press (Birmingham politics and community): Index 1972, 1973,
Styng (1971 Yorkshire arts and underground culture): Index 1972,
Titus Groan (People’s paper of Staffordshire potteries, 1971-2)
TORC (Glastonbury occult/psychic/subconscious): Index 1972, 1973, 1974,
Tower Hamlets Voice (community newspaper 1975-6): Index 1979,
Tuebrook Bugle (Liverpool local affairs): Index 1972,
Tyneside Street Press: Index 1976, 1977,
Undercurrents (Alternative viewpoint on science, technology and politics): Index 1986,
Unhinged: Index 1988, 1989/90
Vegan Action Newspaper: Index 1972, 1976,
Vassal Neighbourhood Newsletter (also related to Action): Index 1976,
Viz (Parody, Satirical observation on current affairs): Index 1987, 1988, 1989/90
Walcot News (also related to Bath Arts Workshop): Index 1976,
Well Red: Index 1988,1989/90
When Saturday comes: Index 1988, 1989/90
White Panthers UK (Freedom for all political prisoners): Index 1972,
Whole Earth News (also related to Dwarf News): Index 1973,
ZIP (Lancashire alternative poetry and performance): Index 1983, 1984,