The Kate Sharpley Library, or KSL, is a library dedicated to anarchist texts and history. Started in 1979 and reorganized in 1991, it currently holds around ten thousand English language volumes, pamphlets and periodicals. The library is maintained by donations and money made from sales. Modern-style library In the traditional sense of the word, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. ... Anarchism derives from the Greek αναρχία (without archons (rulers)). Thus anarchism, in its most general meaning, is the belief that rulership is unnecessary and should be abolished. ... One of the most famous quotations about history and the value of studying history by Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, reads: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

In addition to English texts, the library has foreign language texts and near complete collections of several anarchist newspapers, and collections of reports and literature from various anarchist organisations. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Kate Sharpley

The Kate Sharpley Library was named after a first world war anarchist and anti-war activist, Kate Sharpley. At the age of 22, while collecting medals from Queen Mary (wife of George V) for her dead father, brother, and boyfriend, she threw the medals back at the Queen, scratching her face. Kate Sharpley was beaten by police, and released from prison a few days later, although no charges were brought against her. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ... A Medal can mean three things: a wearable medal awarded by a government for services to a country (such as Armed force service); strictly speaking this only refers to a medal of coin-like appearance, but informally the word also refers to an Order (decoration); a table medal awarded by... Mary of Teck Princess Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) (26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953), later Queen Mary, was the Queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom. ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert) (3 June 1865–20 January 1936) was the last British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, changing the name to the House of Windsor in 1917. ... A father is traditionaly the male parent of a child. ... A family of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups, typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships including domestic partnership, adoption, surname and in some cases ownership (as was the case in the Roman... A boyfriend is a male partner in a non-marital romantic relationship with either a woman or a man. ... This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. ...

Publications

The library also publishes books on anarchism and anarchist history. [1]#redirect Book ... Anarchism derives from the Greek αναρχία (without archons (rulers)). Thus anarchism, in its most general meaning, is the belief that rulership is unnecessary and should be abolished. ...

Authors it has published or re-published include:

• Miguel Garcia
• Albert Meltzer
• David Nicoll
• Antonio Téllez
• Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Miguel García (1908-1981) was a Spanish anarchist activist, forger, and writer, and was a political prisoner under the regime of Francisco Franco. ... Albert Meltzer (born January 7, 1920 _ died May 7, 1996) was an anarchist activist and writer. ... Antonio Téllez Solá (1921-2005) was a Spanish anarchist, journalist and historian. ... Sacco (right) and Vanzetti Nicola Sacco (1891 - August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888 - August 23, 1927) were two Italian anarchists, who were arrested, tried, and executed in Massachusetts in the 1920s on charges of murder of a shoe factory paymaster named Frederick Parmenter and a security guard named Alesandro...

External Links

• The Kate Sharpley Library homepage