Squatting the real story
ISBN 0-9507259-1-9 | |
Squatting the real story is a 1980 compendium of articles about squatting in the United Kingdom, mainly based on projects in London. It was edited by Nick Wates and Christian Wolmar, and written by among others Piers Corbyn, Ann Pettitt, Steve Platt and Colin Ward. Contemporaneous reviews praised the detailed knowledge it presented and later scholars have acknowledged it as a useful historical document.
Background
Writing about the book forty years later, Nick Wates (one of the two named editors alongside Christian Wolmar) stated that the book was self-published by a collective of 19 people. The publishing name of Bay Leaf Books was a play on the word bailiff.[5]
Reception
Reviews of the book in the 1980s praised its detailed insider knowledge of the London squatter movement.[2][3][6] The London Journal called it a "hearteningly extensive survey of direct action on homelessness".[3] The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research review judged the book "valuable" whilst also noting it was "written by squatters for squatters with a backward-looking slightly nostalgic feel".[2] Contemporary scholars working on squatting have acknowledged it as a useful historical document.[7][8]
References
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- ISBN 0-9507259-1-9.
- ^ Wates, Nick. "Learning from the street, sharing globally". www.routledge.com. Routledge. Archived from the original on 19 February 2023. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
- ^ Rety, John (1981). "Great Squats of Our Time". Freedom. 42 (1).
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- ISBN 978-1-78168-788-8.)
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