'To have an international conference was a big thing, and people were getting really excited about…
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Show filtersVirtual 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…
How a retail co-op weathered world trade
Andrew Bibby reviews a history of the global trading efforts of the CWS
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…
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
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…
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…
Interview: Mark Drakeford on the legacy of Robert Owen
The Welsh first minister discusses the impact of the pioneering reformer
250 years of Robert Owen
Rebecca Harvey looks back at the life of a leading light of the early co-op movement
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…
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…
Back pages from the movement’s radical past
A fascinating collection of sources putting the 19th century co-op movement in the context of the…
