Spirit of Revolt Archive

{{Short description|Archive in Glasgow, Scotland}}

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The Spirit of Revolt Archive,{{cite web|title=Spirit of Revolt - Archives of Dissent|url=http://spiritofrevolt.info|accessdate=18 May 2013}} based in Glasgow (Scotland), is dedicated to collecting, managing and preserving multi-media records from Glasgow’s and Clydeside’s anarchist and libertarian-socialist movement. It is a ‘community archive’,{{cite book|last=Bastian, J.A.|title=Community Archives. The shaping of memory|year=2009|publisher=Facet|location=London|isbn=978-1856046398|pages=3–28|author2=Alexander, B. }} largely run by volunteers. It was constituted in August 2011 and today forms part of Glasgow City Archives’ collection{{cite web|title=Glasgow City Archives|url=http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/the-mitchell-library/archives/Pages/home.aspx|accessdate=18 May 2013}} whilst maintaining its organisational independence. Its catalogue will join the National Records of Scotland in 2013.{{cite web|title=National Records of Scotland|url=http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/|accessdate=18 May 2013}} The archive derives its name from the title of an 1880 pamphlet by the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin.{{cite book|last=Kropotkin|first=Peter|title=Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings|year=2003|publisher=Dover Publications|location=Dover|isbn=978-0486419558|pages=34–44}}

The archive’s digitised documents are hosted on www.archive.org.{{cite web|title=Archive.org|url=https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Spirit+of+Revolt.%22|accessdate=18 May 2013}}

For its initial scoping and start-up phase, Spirit of Revolt Archive was funded by the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust{{cite web|title=Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust|url=http://www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/trustinfo/grants.htm|accessdate=18 May 2013}} which seeks to ‘advance public education, learning and knowledge in all aspects of the philosophy of Marxism, the history of socialism, and the working-class movement’.{{cite web|title=Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust|url=http://www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/trustinfo/about%20the%20trust.htm}}

Material selected for retention in the archive provides one or more of the following: evidence of a campaign, movement, organisation, or individual’s activities; information pertinent to the anarchist movement, e.g., expositions of anarchist ideology, political positions, rationale behind activities; an insight into membership and associates of anarchist organisations; evidence of the impact of anarchism culturally and politically. Material from political parties is not collected, according to archival policy.{{cite web|title=Personal profile|last=Pautz|first=Hartwig|url=https://www.academia.edu/3139826|accessdate=18 May 2013}}

In January 2013, the archive organised an exhibition, called ‘Radical Presses Clydeside – 100 Years of Autonomous Protest Literature’ at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library.{{cite web|last=McGuire|first=Neil|title=Spirit of Revolt exhibition|url=http://gsavis.com/blog/2013/01/13/the-spirit-of-revolt-exhibition/|accessdate=17 March 2013}}{{cite web|last=Boyd|first=Cat|title=Spirit of Revolt: A Review|url=http://internationalsocialist.org.uk/index.php/blog/spirit-of-revolt-a-review/|publisher=International Socialist Group|accessdate=17 March 2013}}

In March 2013, Spirit of Revolt was represented at the 19th "Alternative Futures and Popular Protest" conference at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Spirit of Revolt Archive also works in conjunction with "[http://radicalglasgow.me.uk/strugglepedia/index.php?title=Main_Page Radical Glasgow's Strugglepedia]" which gives information about Glasgow's radical history.