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  • History

    Virtual tour launched at Pioneers Museum in response to pandemic

    'Renting the film helps our charity to reach a worldwide audience to spread the message of co-operation'

    1 year ago
  • History

    How a retail co-op weathered world trade

    Andrew Bibby reviews a history of the global trading efforts of the CWS

    1 year ago
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    Our Circle: ‘A magazine for young people’

    As part of our 150th anniversary celebrations, we look back at the co-operative children's magazine published between 1907-1960

    2 years ago
  • Development

    New exhibition celebrates story of Leicestershire co-ops

    Organiser CASE has collected material from across the county to tell more than 1,000 co-op stories

    2 years ago
  • History

    Co-op Group to preserve historic signage revealed during store refit

    The signage is a relic of the Royal Arsenal Co-op, a large consumer co-op founded in the 1870s

    2 years ago
  • Education

    Obituary: Johnston Birchall, a scholar and champion for the co-op movement

    The Stirling University professor spent 30 years studying the movement, including an important report on co-op governance

    2 years ago
  • Education

    Interview: Mark Drakeford on the legacy of Robert Owen

    The Welsh first minister discusses the impact of the pioneering reformer

    2 years ago
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    250 years of Robert Owen

    Rebecca Harvey looks back at the life of a leading light of the early co-op movement

    2 years ago
  • Democracy

    Co-op News: a tool of democracy

    'Co-op News is part of the co-operative movement but also an independent body and this is incredibly valuable'

    2 years ago
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    Hopes for rescue of Hull’s iconic Three Ships co-op mural

    Plans are being drawn up to rescue the historic artwork – and other co-op architecture in the UK is also being preserved

    2 years ago
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