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From the Archives: Week 12

We’ve now reached the end of the twelfth week of lockdown – here are most recent selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. Cosmo China: 20th Anniversary Exhibition by Josie Firmin (2010)
  2. It’s Nice to Make by Mah Rana (2013)
  3. The UK Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef How-To booklet by Crafts Council (2011)
  4. No Words by David Key (2006)
  5. Whisker: Issue Two by Hazem Tagiuri et al (2013)
  6. The True Levellers Standard Advanced (1649) & Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2000) by Gerard Winstanley et al & the EU (2015)
  7. Knowing Where You Are by Sarah Butler (2011)

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From the Archives: Week 11

Latest selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. Reflections on the city from a post-flâneur by Ruth Maclennan (2011)
  2. Le Corbeau / The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe tr. Stéphane Mallarmé (1875/2009)
  3. Atomic Scientists News by Gair Dunlop (2014)
  4. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729/2008)
  5. Sole Rights by Roshini Kempadoo (2002)
  6. I Feel Different by LACE (2009)
  7. Tales of Things: Objects, Stories & Voices from the BME Communities in Greenwich by Chris Speed et al (2010)
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From the Archives: Week 10

Our 10th week of lockdown selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. The Octuplet: Story of Our Lives by Babette Wagenvoort (2009)
  2. The Island Bell by Katherine Meynell (2000)
  3. Pride Of The Moor – a song to Dartmoor’s tin by Jim Causley & Simon Pope (2010)
  4. Marseille Mix – turn down the heat by William Firebrace (2008)
  5. The Petition of Right (1628), Grand Remonstrance (1641) & Charter88 (1988) by various (2015)
  6. Canyon Flow by Joyce Majiski & Zea Morvitz (2014)
  7. A London Childhood 1926-1939 by Henry Long (2014)
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From the Archives : Week 9

More selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. H2O by Alejandra Canales, Anne Ransquin & Juan F. Salazar (2009)
  2. An Agreement of the Free People of England (1649) & The People’s Charter (1838) by John Lilburne et al & The Chartists (2015)
  3. The Anthropofferjist Charles Dickens: “Wapping Ghost Ship” by Steve Beard (2002)
  4. Code by Gair Dunlop (2012)
  5. Sea Shanties collated by Francis McKee (2008).
  6. He Who Sleeps Dines by London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchsrist & Jo Joelson, 2011)
  7. The Thetford Travelling Menagerie by DodoLab (Andrew Hunter & Lisa Hirmer, 2011)

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From the Archives: Week 8

Another serving of selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. The Fact of the Matter by Anne Tallentire & Monica Ross (2000)
  2. Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein – 4 books (1914/2008)
  3. Play Guide – Outside The Box by Proboscis (2013)
  4. Phantom Shifts: Performance Notations by Aaron Williamson (2000)
  5. Recollections of Geo. Benford & O’Shea by Alf & Nance Wood (2014)
  6. Landscape 3 Acts: Return • Dispersal • Circulation by Kathryn Yusoff (2006)
  7. The New Wizard of the West by Chauncy Montgomery M’Govern (1899/2013)
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From the Archives: Week 7

More selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. River Gap by Ben Eastop (2011)
  2. State of the Union by Robert Ransick (2009)
  3. Landscapes In Dialogue: reflections by Alice Angus (2010)
  4. A Manual for Maverick Machines by Karen Martin (2007)
  5. – – – – by Michael Atavar (2002)
  6. The Show by desperate optimists (2011)
  7. Skyline & Sightlines by Simon Pope (2011)

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From the Archives: Week 6

This week’s selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776/2008)
  2. Hard Hearted Hannah: Classics from Nowhere (Part 1 of 6) by Cartoon de Salvo (2010)
  3. The 36 Stratagems by anonymous (c.1600s/2009)
  4. Seven Days in Seven Dials: A Week in the Life of London’s Cultural Quarters (1 of 3) by Dan Thompson et al (2010)
  5. Remix Reconvex Reconvexo by Karla Brunet (2010)
  6. Towards Psychonutrition by John Hartley (2011)
  7. Layered City As Material: Underside by Alex Deschamps-Sonsino et al (2010)
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From the Archives: Week 5

Here are the latest treasures surfaced from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library. Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. Double culpability/ double subjectivity: Thomson & Craighead’s A Short Film about War by Lisa Le Feuvre (2010)
  2. Dal Riata – A Little Tactile History Of A Scottish Kingdom by Alastair Somerville (2014)
  3. A Conversation Between Trees by Active Ingredient (2011)
  4. Excavations in the Temple Precinct of Dangeil, Sudan by Julie Anderson & Salah Mohamed Ahmed (2010)
  5. Beasts and Super Beasts by Saki [H H Munro] (1914/2008)
  6. Recollections by Harold Lun (2014)
  7. Trail Song by Julie Myers (2009)
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Inspiration From the Archives

Over the past four weeks I have been making selections from our archives of some of the most wonderful publications I have had the privilege of commissioning, supporting or creating. Here is the first batch of selections, spanning both diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library, added to each day on our Twitter account and searchable by the hashtag #makingreading. All are free to download, print out and make up, and some can be read online in their bookreader form:

  1. Dispersals by Gair Dunlop (2013)
  2. making/do by Jane Prophet (2011)
  3. The New Worker’s Songbook Songwriters’ Workbook for New Worksongs! by Tor Lukasik-Foss (2011)
  4. If London Were Like Venice Oh! That It Were!” by Somers L. Summers (1899/2012)
  5. Phantom Tomes from an imaginary library by Clara Angus Lane & Giles Lane (2017)
  6. Blakewalk 3 by Tim Wright (2009)
  7. Spaces and Places of Convergence by Anne Galloway (2006)
  8. Dominion Dundas by Seth (2009)
  9. Whisker Issue One by Hazem Tagiuri et al (2013)
  10. Aerial Stories: notes about gravity, bodies and the view out the window by Louise K Wilson (2005)
  11. Out of it, Into It by Deborah Levy (2002)
  12. Bottle Orchestra by Tony White (2007)
  13. Hackney Rebel by Dawes Gray (2014)
  14. An A-Z of The Ting: Theatre of Mistakes – A by Marie-Anne Mancio (Part 1 of a 16 book set, 2009)
  15. The Robinson Institute by Patrick Keiller (2002) 
  16. The Cabinet of Alchemical Curiosities by Joyce MajiskiZea Morvitz (2019)
  17. Waiting For Crisis by Will Davies (2009)
  18. The Psychogeography of Zeros and Ones by Stewart Home (2002)
  19. Picnic: order, ambiguity and community by Kevin Harris (2011)
  20. Voiceover by Mohini Chandra (2002)
  21. Poets from the Horizon: Scrapbook of Words by Poets of New Horizons Centre, Peter Baxter & Rosie Knight (2015)
  22. Single Step Guide to Success – Day Planning by Heath Bunting (2006)
  23. The Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Walking Stewart: including his travels in the East Indies, Turkey, Germany, and America by a Relative (1822/2010)
  24. specious spacious by William Firebrace (2002)
  25. Travelling Through Layers by Alice Angus, Giles Lane & Orlagh Woods (2009)
  26. Systems/Layers by Nurri Kim & Adam Greenfield (2011)
  27. Areopagitica by John Milton (1644/2013)
  28. Professor Starling’s Thetford-London-Oxford Expedition by Professor William Starling (Andrew T Hunter), Lisa Hirmer, Leila Armstrong, Josie Mills, Hazem Tagiuri & Giles Lane (3 books, 2012)

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A Field Guide to People Centric Practices

A booklet of personal reflections, by Giles Lane, on what a set of principles for working from a people-centric perspective might be.

People centric practice implies not just a human centred approach, but one which encompasses the whole context in which we live and work, and impacts on other creatures and lifeforms that are part of such environments – the more-than-human world. It addresses the whole ecologies of which we are part, on upon which we depend for our very existence. People does not have to mean exclusively human – we might consider other species (trees, birds, mammals etc) as peoples, as some indigenous humans have done, since they constitute their own societies and ways of being in the world. All have as much right to life as each other, it is only human hubris which champions our right to own and exploit everything else as paramount.

The booklet brings together, in a simple way, a set of principles and guides for working based on empathy, common sense, trust and agency. It is centred on establishing and following an ethos – through listening and responding, trusting and being trusted; anticipating consequences and reflecting on what you do. It adds into the mix principles for building trust borrowed from Baroness Onora O’Neill’s 2002 Reith Lectures, as well as the Precautionary Principle, Duty of Care and the Nolan Principles of Public Life. It also includes personal values: passion, intensity, intimacy, pleasure, obligation, responsibility, culpability.

Download on bookleteer, or read the online version.