The title is a little misleading as I also will be listing articles written by anarchists in non-anarchist publications and publications available through the British anarchist press but published elsewhere.
In his Recollections and Reflections (Carl Slienger; London,1976) first printed in Freedom in 1912 Frank Kitz writes that in 1878 or shortly afterwards the Socialist "sections" in London published the pamphlet The Principles of Social Democracy by John Sketchley and the "English section undertook the reissue of two pamphlets on Communism by Henry Glasse" (p13). ( E P Thompson in William Morris:From Romantic to Revolutionary calls " Principles.." a book.) I am presuming it is the 1879 edition published firstly by J.D Stocker in Birmingham and then by The Social Democratic Party in London which they both refer to.The London edition adds An exposition and Vindication to the title. Kitz appears to be more accurate here as the pamphlet has 36pp
1881 The Cambridge Review ( March 30) has an article on "Anarchy" by Karl Pearson who claims that there is a small party of anarchists in the UK and their organ "Anarchist" has thousands of copies "scattered broadcast throughout the factories and workshops of this country"
N. Walter, in his discussion of John Quail's book,(Freedom 2nd, 16th, 30th September 1978) suggests that this is the paper published by Edward Nathan-Ganz in Boston in January 1881
1882
Dan Chatterton The Commune of England London, self published.
Peter Kropotkin The Russian Revolutionary Party Newcastle Chronicle October 12th 1882
Peter Kropotkin The Russian Revolutionary Party ( revised and expanded) Fortnightly Review December (?) 1882
1883
Peter Kropotkin Russian Prisons The Nineteenth Century January
Peter Kropotkin The Fortress Prison of St Petersburg The Nineteenth Century June
Peter Kropotkin Outcast Russia :the journey to Siberia. The Nineteenth Century December
Dan Chatterton Babies and Bunny Rabbits; A Popular Educator London, self published
Michael Bakunin God and The State Science Library;Tunbridge Wells.
(reprint of Tuckers edition )
Manifesto of the Socialists and Anarchists tried in Lyons by the French government in January 1883 Apparently produced by a group of revolutionaries including Kitz and Lane.( according to Thomas -"Anarchists Ideas and Countercultures in Britain")The only thing I have seen that could be this is a one page sheet published by The International Socialist Federation, 15,Poland St, London W January 23 1883. However this version is entitled Manifesto of the Socialists tried in Lyon by the French republican Government The same,perhaps?
1884
Peter Kropotkin The Exile In Siberia The Nineteenth Century, March
November-December Long essay on anarchism in four issues of "Justice" (SDF paper) by "An English Anarchist" ( Charlotte Wilson)
W. Donisthorpe Liberty or Law? Liberty and Property Defence League, 1884
1885
Peter Kropotkin Finland: A Rising Nationality The Nineteenth Century, March
Peter Kropotkin The Coming War(on Afghan frontier}. The Nineteenth Century, May
Peter Kropotkin What Geography Ought To Be The Nineteenth Century, December
Elisee Reclus Evolution and Revolution trans. Seymour. International Publishing Co
(A second, revised edition is advertised in July 1885 "The Anarchist" as ready " this week")
A third edition is advertised in 1886
Peter Kropotkin An Appeal To The Young (Modern Press)
Arbeiter Fraint July 1885 some anarchist material but the paper did not become primarily anarchist until April 1891
Henry Seymour P J Proudhon (reprinted from 'The Anarchist")
Henry Appleton What Is Anarchism (leaflet- published by Seymour)
Henry Seymour Labor and Capital ( leaflet published by Seymour) both mentioned in "The Anarchist" Sept. 1885
Albert Tarn The State: It's Origin, It's Nature and It's Abolition C. Stocker, Birmingham ( 1895 is a best guess)
1886
Peter Kropotkin In French Prisons The Nineteenth Century, March
P J Proudhon The Malthusians (prefatory note Henry Seymour and translated by Benjamin Tucker) International Publishing Co. reprinted from "The Anarchist" (December 1885)
Second edition July 1886
P J Proudhon What Is Property? advertised in the October 1886 "Anarchist" as available.I presume this was the Benjamin Tucker published 1876 edition( Princeton).Seymour had, throughout 1886, said this work was " in the press" but I can't see any evidence of it ever appearing.
An English Anarchist (Charlotte Wilson) The Criminal Law Amendment Act (reprinted from "The Anarchist")
Peter Kropotkin Expropriation (International Publishing Co,) trans. Henry Glasse
Peter Kropotkin War (International Publishing Co.)
Peter Kropotkin Law and Authority (International Publishing Co.)
E. C Walker Love and Law (International Publishing Co.?) I rather think this edition for sale may well be the Lucifer edition. The only edition I could find was published by Lucifer in 1887 by Worldcat.Mmmm. More to do, methinks
Peter Kropotkin The Place of Anarchism In Socialistic Evolution (International Publishing Co. Sept 1886. First published in "The Anarchist" 1st July 1886
2nd edition 1887 (William Reeves)
N. Cherneyshevsky What Is To Be Done transl. and published By Benjamin Tucker.This edition available through 'The Anarchist" ( July 1886)
Stephen Pearl Andrews The Labor Dollar
E. H Heywood Cupid's Yokes
E.H Heywood Natural Law
W. B. Greene Mutual Banking
E.Belfort Bax, Victor Dave and William Morris A Short Account of the Commune of Paris of 1871( Socialist League)
1887
Peter Kropotkin The Scientific Basis of Anarchy The Nineteenth Century, February
J.K Ingalls Work and Wealth: An Essay On The Economics of Socialism International Publishing Co.
Dan Chatterton Blood, Bullets and Bayonets c.
Dan Chatterton The Franchise Swindle London, self published
Henry Seymour The Philosophy of Anarchism International Publishing Co? (March?)
First appeared in The Anarchist Jan-Feb 1887
Joseph Lane Anti Statist Communist Manifesto W.J. Ramsey; London (June)
Peter Kropotkin The Place of Anarchism In Socialistic Evolution International Publishing co.some have another edition in 1886.It did appear in "The Anarchist", No 17 July 1886.It was reprinted in 1887 by William Reeves.
Peter Kropotkin In Russian and French Prisons Ward and Downey,London
Peter Kropotkin The Coming Anarchy Nineteenth Century, August.
(revised as the first chapter of Anarchist Communism:It's Basis and Principles 1891))
L.S. Guggenberger ( L.S. Bevington) Dogs in Germany Nineteenth Century, August ( actually the article is about what it says it is, with some discussion of Dogs in England )!!!
Lothrop Withington Constructive Murder: a speech delivered at a meeting to denounce the judicial assassination of the Chicago anarchists, held at the Communist Club, Tottenham Street on Friday evening October 7th 1887 International Publishers, 1887
First printed in "The Anarchist" Nov.1st 1887
David Andrade Free-Love Defined and Defended (four page propaganda leaflet) Henry Seymour (August?)
August Spies Autobiography Chicago: Nina Van Spies, 1887
Charles Theodore Reuss The Matrimonial Question: From an Anarchistic Point of View Henry Seymour (October?)
Chicago Anarchists The Accused The Accusers Chicago : Socialistic Publishing Society, 1886?
1888
John Most The Accusation; a speech delivered by John Most, at Kramers Hall, New York, on November 13th 1887, in denunciation of the judicial butchery of the Chicago anarchists: for delivering which, he has been sentenced to twelve months imprisonment by Judge Cowling
H. Seymour (January )
Albert Parsons Anarchism: It's Philosophy and Scientific Basis
(available through "The Anarchist" from February 1888
Peter Kropotkin The Breakdown of Our Industrial System The Nineteenth Century, April
Peter Kropotkin The Coming Reign of Plenty The Nineteenth Century, June
Dan Chatterton Merry England, so called London, self published
Henry Seymour Michael Bakounine :A biographical sketch self published, London
Henry Seymour The Anarchy of Love self published, London
(serialized in the July and August issues of "The Anarchist".Advertised as a pamphlet in the August issue
Henry Seymour Anarchy,Theory and Practice self published, London
Peter Kropotkin The Industrial Village of the Future The Nineteenth Century, October
Proudhon System of Economical Contradictions or The Philosophy of Misery Tucker, Boston
Victor Yarros Anarchism:It's Aims and Methods.
available in "The Anarchist"( July)
1889
Edward Carpenter Civilization:Its cause and cure Swann Sonnenschein, London
Peter Kropotkin The Wage System Freedom Press
Peter Kropotkin The Great French Revolution and It's Lesson The Nineteenth Century, June
H B Samuels A Straight Talk to Working Men Socialist League February( 4pp)
David Nicoll The Chicago Martyrs Socialist League November(3pp)
Henry Seymour The Malthusian Theory
Albert Tarn A Free Currency:What It means,How It Can Be Established,What It Can Accomplish Labour Press
Some publication details.In the June 1887 The Anarchist Seymour wrote:
"The International Publishing Co. as it stood has been dissolved, but will be carried on as an anarchistic publishing house by myself" I am inclined to think that what came from Newington Green after June 1887 was not published by International Publishing Co.but by Henry Seymour.More later.
Not sure just how much of Chatterton is anarchist.Perhaps by 1887? I have added the Carpenter because it is considered one of his most anarchist texts...Also date of Expropriation by Kropotkin.Presumably Proudhon's What is Property? transl. by Benjamin Tucker in 1876 was circulating through Seymour.Need to check the date of the W. Reeves edition.The copy KSL has is part of Reeves' Bellamy Library-as are all other copies I have hunted for.If this is the only Reeves edition from this period the Bellamy Library was begun in 1890.That would rule it out of this particular chronology.
Not listing Kropotkin's writing in Freedom for the time being.More interested in those that were written for other publications.Oh- and Oliver (p44) states that Hyndman had, in 1885, translated some parts of Paroles d'un revolte Presumably in Justice??
There is, of course, other Carpenter from this period but......
Newspapers
La Revolution sociale 1880-81.( helped organize the 1881 Conference in London and fostered links with the French anarchists in London)
Le Travail (ed Brocher) Fr. 1880-81
Freheit (English language) 1881 edited by Frank Kitz.English section of the Rose St,Club.Published as the organ of a Defence Committee ( London)
Die Autonomie ( London) November 1886-1893
Der Rebell (London) October 1883-October 1886
Le Bulletin du Congres de Londres 1881 (June-) ed Brocher under the name Rechorb
We know Le Revolte was being sold in London before 1885 (eg Trunk selling it in Stanhope St)
Commonweal Feb. 1885-Sept.1892, May 1893-May 1894
The Anarchist (March 1885-magazine format from March 1887 -1888?
Freedom October 1886-
The Revolutionary Review ( ed. Henry Seymour) January-September 1889
Lucifer, the Lightbearer available through The Anarchist from 1885
The Practical Socialist (January 1886) had a piece by An English Anarchist ( Charlotte Wilson)
Italian newspapers in London
La Guerre Sociale, journal socialiste-revolutionnaire ( October 1878- November 1878) London. Four issues Zanardelli instrumental in it's publication
According to Diapola the paper oscillated between socialism and anarchism.4pp. Two in French, two in Italian
Bollettino Socialista Rivoluzionario March-May 1879 London
Zanardelli
L'Associazone ( ed Malatesta et al) 30/11/89
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