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""the bookshop was started in 1974 (...) we were seen as very subversive for years and during the early eighties we had a lot of fascist attacks" Mandy recalls of a fairly turbulent time, where Liverpool seemed to be a stage where the country's social upheavals played out on a magnified scale. "It was after the Toxteth Uprisings, the Falklands War, the Miner's strike; there was trouble on the streets all the time and a lot of hostility towards any activists, and we were being targeted by really nasty right-wing fascist groups. They were targeting a lot of bookshops around the country. We had literally ten to twelve arson attacks at night.""



40 years of an independent booskshop in Liverpool
Bookshop "news from nowhere", Bold Street, Liverpool 
excerpt from "Bido Lito", June 2014, newspaper about Liverpool's music scene