LMA visit plus the Guildhall

We went to the London Metropolitan Archives

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/london-metropolitan-archives/Pages/default.aspx

Where they have some document or picture about everything every bit of London.

This opened up a world of possibilities for research.

                                                 The conservation dept, they use a lot of 
                                  Japanese paper to stick together the crumbling documents.

                                     
                                      Maureen shows us the room with all the empty boxes.
                There is a guy at the LMA who makes boxes all day, every day. Of every size.

                                                                     Into the stacks.

 Maureen and Simon showed us a tiny skimming of the 6000+ items that the London Metropolitan Archive holds regarding Camberwell.

This is what the Book-room looked like back when Camberwell was a college of arts and crafts.

It was called the Embroidery Room. So that is what i will be calling it from now on.

Letterpress

Miss Camberwell 1885.

 Postmans Park

                                                                        Guildhall 

                                                          Modern Gothic Cloister.

             The most excellent tour-guide Tim shows us a picture at the Guildhall Art Gallery.

Kevin Brownlow

Could our Independent State project be better named 

"the world turned UPSIDE down"? 

Would making a fair society mean changing everything?

Kevin Brownlow came and screened his film 'Winstanley' 

about the Diggers during the English Civil War.

"Communism is a great idea that has yet to be tried out"- KB

INDEPENDENT STATE OF CAMBERWELL prt 1

Ken Garland speaks.

Ken Garland instigates a novel way of discussion.

BAS2 run with it.

Ministry of Ghosts directive.

Show of Hands - Peckham Square.

BANNER PARADE

Ministry of Borders (no borders).

Gender

Gender

Ghosts

Intergalactic communication

Nature

Nature

The Parade including Guild of (anarchists) Shadows.

and Freedom feathers.

Propaganda Ministry promise 100% happiness.

Shelter

YOU TUBE FILM IS HERE~

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-KwnND3pHY&feature=em-share_video_user

The End

Our territory to come?

EDITION FAIR 2015

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EDITION - PRIMAL EDITIONING METHODS 1.

FROM BRITISH LIBRARY~P.O.W MAP PRINTING.

These maps were created in secret by British prisoners of war,  in a camp at Querum near Brunswick in Germany in 1944. The maps are evidence of great courage and resourcefulness in the most trying of circumstances.

Thousands of the maps produced by the British during WWII were made on silk and rayon. These fabrics were stronger than paper, and more easily concealed. The games company Waddington possessed the technology to print on cloth, and printed many silk maps for supply to Allied servicemen. The company also concealed maps and tiny compasses inside Monopoly games and packs of cards; these were sent into the prison camps disguised as parcels from charities.

But these smuggled maps were too few in number to be of much use to the thousands of men inside the camps. Philip Evans, who created this map, was a printer by trade. Evans devised a method of printing maps while he was interned in a German prison camp during the war. The idea was to create enough maps for each of the British soldiers in the camp. That way, each man would be provided with some chance of finding his way to safety if the war ended in anarchy.

The idea of making the maps came to Evans when he realised that tiles from a bombed building in the camp could be used as printing plates. All the information on the maps was drawn by hand on to the plates. The ink was made from melted margarine mixed with pitch scraped from the pavement. The printing press was made of floorboards, and the ink roller was constructed from a window bar covered with leather. The resulting maps are an astonishing example of human skill and creativity.

Taken from: The Prisoner's Press Archive
Author / Creator: Evans, Philip
Date: 1944

EDITION - PRIMAL EDITIONING METHODS 2 - PROTEIN MAN

THIS POST IS ABOUT HAVING A MESSAGE AND THE DETERMINATION TO DELIVER IT.

Stanley Owen Green (22 February 1915 – 4 December 1993), known as the Protein Man, was a human billboard who became a well-known figure in central London in the latter half of the 20th century.

Green patrolled Oxford Street in the West End for 25 years, from 1968 until 1993. His placard advocating "Less Lust, By Less Protein: Meat Fish Bird; Egg Cheese; Peas Beans; Nuts. And Sitting" recommended "protein wisdom", a low-protein diet for "better, kinder, happier people". For a few pence passers-by could purchase his 14-page pamphlet, Eight Passion Proteins with Care, which sold 87,000 copies over 20 years. Its front cover observed, "This booklet would benefit more, if it were read occasionally."^[2]

Green's "campaign to suppress desire", as one commentator put it, was not always popular, but he became one of London's much-loved eccentrics and took great delight in his local fame. The Sunday Times interviewed him in 1985, and his "less passion, less protein" slogan was used by the fashion house Red or Dead.

When he died at the age of 78, the Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Times published his obituary, the Museum of London added his pamphlets, placards and letters to their collection, and in 2006 his biography was added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.^[1]

He printed his pamphlets on his own press that was installed in his flat in Northolt.

(WIKIPEDIA)