New Online: Senate House Library (U. of London) Makes Public a Sample of a Remarkable Archive of Radical Politics
Ron Heisler is a book collector, trade unionist, lifelong socialist and self-proclaimed “delinquent historian”.
Since 2004, he has been donating to the University of London’s Senate House Library a collection of material relating to the Chartists, the Independent Labour and Communist parties, Trotskyist groups, the Spanish Civil War, South Africa, the Caribbean, the former Soviet Union and much more.
As well as some 25,000 books, 20,000 pamphlets, 3,000 journals and newspaper titles, there are many examples of extremely rare and even unique political ephemera.
New Online: Covers From Some of the Materials in the Heisler Collection
Learn More About Cataloging this Collection
See Also: Ron Heisler Collection Finding Aid
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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