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The Strickland Press Glasgow
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IdentifierUMA-AG-000001732HistoryThe Strickland Press was an anarchist publishing house in George Street, Glasgow which was established in 1939 by prominent member of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation (APCF) Guy Aldred.
In 1938 Guy Aldred's friend, socialist and liberalist Sir Walter Strickland, died leaving Aldred a fortune "for socialist and atheist propaganda". Aldred began work straight away buying premises and machinery and proceeded to reprint all his old pamphlets, before he had actually secured the money. Strickland's family then contested the will citing the fact that socialist and atheist propaganda was illegal under Czech law (Strickland had become a naturalised Czech subject after the creation of the state of Czechoslovakia). After a protracted legal battle, Aldred was left out of pocket only to be saved, financially, by the Marquis of Tavistock. Through Tavistock's support, Aldred was able to begin work on his monthly The Word - periodical of the United Socialist Movement which was one of the key publications produced by the Strickland Press
Source: Wikipedia
IdentifierUMA-AG-000001732HistoryThe Strickland Press was an anarchist publishing house in George Street, Glasgow which was established in 1939 by prominent member of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation (APCF) Guy Aldred.In 1938 Guy Aldred's friend, socialist and liberalist Sir Walter Strickland, died leaving Aldred a fortune "for socialist and atheist propaganda". Aldred began work straight away buying premises and machinery and proceeded to reprint all his old pamphlets, before he had actually secured the money. Strickland's family then contested the will citing the fact that socialist and atheist propaganda was illegal under Czech law (Strickland had become a naturalised Czech subject after the creation of the state of Czechoslovakia). After a protracted legal battle, Aldred was left out of pocket only to be saved, financially, by the Marquis of Tavistock. Through Tavistock's support, Aldred was able to begin work on his monthly The Word - periodical of the United Socialist Movement which was one of the key publications produced by the Strickland Press
Source: Wikipedia
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Date1938
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Source of DescriptionThe Strickland Press
The Strickland Press Glasgow (1938), [UMA-AG-000001732]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 30/05/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/656445