Although we're in lockdown, you can still shop at many independent retailers online. So we asked some bookshop friends to share the titles they’re most excited about this Christmas.
Favourite books for Christmas
This Christmas, we're offering 10% off our Irregulars books – plus we'll gift wrap each one in our special Eyeball Cards wrapping paper. The discount will be applied automatically when you checkout. Ends 12 December, while stocks last.
Irregulars series
A new book surveying the manuals, pamphlets, posters and ephemera from the Cold War about Britain’s readiness — or not — for nuclear attack.
Nuclear War In The UK
Written by See Red members, detailing the group’s history, the book features their brilliant screenprints from the 1970s and 1980s.
See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974-1990
Some of the most striking – and joyful – American art of the 60s, made while the artist was living as a Catholic nun in California.
Come Alive! The Spirited Art Of Sister Corita
A new book bringing together a wonderful group of posters made in the 1970s and 1980s for housing campaigns, political protests, festivals and gigs.
Posters from Paddington Printshop
The first major study of the design, production, and distribution of postcards from the 1905 Revolution in Russia, featuring over 200 images. Together, they form a rich body of political art that illustrates the danger of opposing the regime during this turbulent era.
Greetings From The Barricades
Marking 50 years since May '68, this book presents posters from the British collective Poster Workshop. Their work, made in Camden from 1968 onwards, give a unique perspective on the key political issues in 1960s and 1970s Britain - many of which still resonate today.
Poster Workshop 1968-1971
For the second book in the Irregulars series, David Clarke has selected material from the Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk, now held at The National Archives, to present the remarkable stories behind these images, including alien craft on the A1, flying saucers over Hampstead, and a spaceship landing at a primary school.
UFO Drawings From The National Archives
We asked William Hogan and David Titlow about their experience of Citizens Band Radio Culture of the 1980s, and more specifically the Eyeball Cards: the business cards of ‘breakers’ exchanged when meeting up in person after chatting on the airwaves.
A CB Radio Q&A
We’re proud to introduce our newest project, one that we’ve been beavering away at for over a year now: Four Corners Irregulars, a series of books presenting a new look at the history of modern British visual culture.
We have chosen a wide range of different subjects, ranging from politics to hobbies, and stretching from 1945 to the present day. All are linked by the remarkable visual creativity in Britain beyond art galleries and museums. Some of the work we feature is by artists working outside of the gallery context and some was made by people who didn’t consider themselves artists at all.
The first volume is by William Hogan and David Titlow, about Eyeball Cards, the mysterious business cards created by CB radio enthusiasts in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ‘Breakers’ would chat over the airwaves at a time when the technology was yet to be legalised and would create handles for themselves to help keep their identity a secret. The result is a window into an outpouring of creativity that prefigures online identities – social media personas from before the internet.
Read about Irregular #1, Eyeball CardsBooks
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