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Show filtersBook review: Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain 1918-1939
Edinburgh University Press, 2018
How immigrants built Britain’s community businesses
From Jewish immigrants through to African-Caribbean radicals, there have been waves of inspirational people who have…
How Georgia’s forgotten revolution pointed the way to a co-operative economy
'A Marxist party carrying out a democratic socialist revolution in an entire country? I know of…
Snapshots in time: Looking back at 12 early examples of co-operation
Ed Mayo from Co-operatives UK has just published a history of co-operation – and finds cases…
What do Quaker and co-operative businesses have in common?
'The Rochdale Principles bear more than a passing resemblance to the Quaker testimonies, which are equality,…
Distribution of white poppies in schools causes controversy
White poppies, first worn by the Women’s Co-operative Guild in 1933, are a symbol of peace…
Call goes out for records of UK worker co-ops for new archive of the movement
The Co-operative Heritage Trust wants to create an archive of upsurge in the movement that took…
Book recalls the co-op wartime chapter in the career of cartoonist Giles
The much-loved cartoonist honed his style with his wartime work for Reynold’s News, the Sunday paper…
Manchester mayor pledges to ‘put co-op ideas into practice’ at Party exhibition
'People are ready for something different', Manchester’s Labour/Co-op mayor Andy Burnham told a gathering at the…
How co-operative architecture has shaped Britain’s skylines
On World Architecture Day, we take a look at some of the brick-and-mortar icons of the…
Here are some of the leading lights from the Co-op Party’s first 100 years
Including the blacksmith's son who served in Churchill's war cabinet and the first woman to serve…
