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Platform

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Administrative/biographical history

Platform combines art, activism, education and research in one organisation to drive for social and ecological justice.

Established in Cambridge in 1983, Platform was initially a radical theatre group that united art and politics to effect real change.

Platform moved to London in 1986 and made London the focal point of its work. Since then, Platform has continued to develop projects and campaigns with campaigners, grassroots movements, artists and researchers to challenge environmental and social inequalities in the UK and elsewhere, and to envision new futures. Find out more about current work at platformlondon.org

NB. Until around 2009, Platform capitalised its name as PLATFORM.

Scope and content

Papers of Platform, (including PLATFORM Cambridge and PLATFORM London) covering campaigns, educational and cultural activism, and funding (1983-2015). Content includes London’s rivers and renewable energy (1987 - 1995), challenging the oil industry and climate change, specifically BP and Shell (1995 to …), solidarity campaigns with oil-affected communities, including Iraq, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Canada, educational art-activist programmes with young people and adults.

Quantity

207 boxes, 15 oversized items, 13 rolled items.

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Protest and Campaigning Go to this category page.

Steve Kitson Archive

1976 - 1992

A landscape image of Frank Crichlow

Frank Crichlow Archive

1950-2014

An image of Tony Smythe.

Tony Smythe Archive

1957-2003

Grattan Puxon Archive

Mondcivitan Republic

Middleton, Mavis

1922-1999

Lester, Muriel

1883-1968

Hunot, Peter

1914-1989

Freedom Press Library

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Stop the War Coalition

Freedom Press Archive

Committee for Freedom in Mozambique, Angola and Guine (CFMAG)

Some Friends Community

Republic

Community Matters

Advisory Service for Squatters Archive

Public Utilities Access Forum

Platform

Shelter: The National Campaign for Homeless People

English Collective of Prostitutes

City of London Anti-Apartheid Group (CAAG)

Protest Against Donald Trump's Visit to London

Armstrong, Keith

1950-2017

Anti-Racist Alliance

Harper, Clifford

Campaigners, Christian Youth Movement

Clays Lane Live Archive

Cambodia Compassion

Hands Up For Peace

Mondcivitan Republic, South East

Nirmul Committee UK Branch

No to Greenwich Olympic Equestrian Events

Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Save Leyton Marsh

Unite Against Fascism / Rock Against Racism

Troops Out Movement

#FROMTHE ARCHIVES

Married in 1950, Chris and Betty Birch have been involved in political, trade union, and LGBTQ+ activism for over 60 years. Sharing similar interests, they were both Communist Party Members and involved with organisations such as the Aid to Spanish Youth Committee. After the death of his friend, Mark Ashton, Chris became involved in forming the Mark Ashton Memorial Trust, which was created to raise money for individuals living with HIV. The archive includes the truncheon taken from the police by Mark Ashton, correspondence, personal scrapbooks, press cuttings, and various other papers relating to the couples activism.
Find out more about the Chris and Betty Birch Archive

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