News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

25/07/2026

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24/07/2026

24/07/2026

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️ We're all ready for Liverpool Pride tomorrow! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

And we have loads of Pride flags in stock, so do come and grab yours for the march -

The list below shows all 5ft x 3ft flag designs we have in stock (£7.99 each) and we also have the following small handwaving flags in stock (£4.99): rainbow pride, progress pride, bi, ace, pan, trans, gender-fluid, & rainbow hearts.

What's more, we also have a brilliant little book in stock, which is a pocket guide to pride flags: https://www.newsfromnowhere.co.uk/page/detail/?sf1=cindex&st1=9781648415746

We're open till 5.30pm today and 10 till 5.30 tomorrow, so do come by!

24/07/2026

☀🏳️‍🌈 It's Liverpool Pride tomorrow! 🏳️‍🌈☀

Click the link below for full info about this year's Liverpool Pride events - timings, venues, march info and more

Divas, dolls, and allies alike, it’s time for one of the city's most exciting and unforgettable weekends of the year: Liverpool Pride!

18/07/2026

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF) has begun!

The UK’s longest running annual festival of Arab arts and culture, returns for its 24th year this July!

Grab your tickets via arabartsfestival.com 🎟✨️

Founded in 1998, LAAF exists to support and champion creatives from across the Arab region and its diaspora, in the belief that art and creativity have the power to express a shared humanity.

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF) LAUNCHES TODAY!

The UK’s longest running annual festival of Arab arts and culture, returns for its 24th year this July!

Join us for the official festival launch TONIGHT (Friday 17th July) with LAAF favourites, the Al-Awhadel Band, returning to Liverpool to perform in the iconic St George's Hall Liverpool Concert Room.

Spotlighting the evocative sounds of the oud, expect a celebration of Yemeni music, with the mesmerising Al-Awhadel Band.

Grab your tickets via arabartsfestival.com 🎟✨️

Founded in 1998, LAAF exists to support and champion creatives from across the Arab region and its diaspora, in the belief that art and creativity have the power to express a shared humanity.

18/07/2026

FREE graphic novel! Pick up a copy from us here at the shop 👍

P**s on Pity is a graphic novel that gives a condensed history of the disability rights movement, from its original theory to its victory with the enshrinement of the Disability Discrimination Act:

"Through the lends of photographer David Hevey, take a whistlestop tour of the fight for disabled rights in the UK. Learn about the formation of its theories, its iconic protests, and its compromised victory.

P**s on Pity holds the blueprint to any successful political battle. These crip fights for civil rights in the past hold lessons for the campaigns of the present."

P**s on Pity is part of the National Disability Movement Archive & Collection, a Shape Arts project.

You can read more about the work of Shape Arts here: https://www.shapearts.org.uk and the National Disability Movement Archive & Collection here: https://ndmac.org/
- and you can download a free copy of the graphic novel here: https://ndmac.org/piss-on-pity-the-graphic-novel/ - or pick up a copy from us here at NfN.

11/07/2026

✨️ New in stock! ✨️

Black Liverpool, by Stephen Small

This book describes the Black community in Liverpool and the arrival, embrace and transformation of waves of transnational Black culture from Africa, the West Indies and the United States in the final three decades of the twentieth century. Transnational cultural influences were spread via the media, brought first-hand by visitors to Liverpool, and through Liverpool residents who travelled internationally.

Liverpool’s Black community was fundamentally different from Black communities in other cities in the 1970s because of the city's unique history. There were far more Africans than West Indians, more long-term citizens than recent immigrants, the highest proportion of inter-racial marriages and people of mixed race in the nation, and a far more vivid collective memory of imperialism in West Africa than in any other city. One important difference is the far greater salience of African cultural patterns, revealed in African family names, the largest concentration of African clubs in the nation, and the emergence of African-inspired organizations like Delado African Drum and Dance company, the Steve Biko Housing Association, and Amadudu women’s refuge.

Black Liverpool closely examines the role of gender ideologies, institutional practices and the experiences of Black women, alongside music and nightlife, social and political ideologies, Black Studies courses, language and dialect, and personal fashion, dress and hairstyles. The religious and secular aspects of Rastafarian beliefs and practices are also foregrounded. Drawing on more than seventy first-hand interviews with Black community residents, workers, activists and celebrities, as well as private and public organizational documents and newspapers, this illuminating book is essential reading for anyone interested in Black culture and the history of Liverpool.

Black Liverpool is £25.00 (hardback) and is available to order from us here: http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/books/DisplayBookInfo.php?ISBN=9781805967521

20/06/2026

Today (Saturday 20th June) at 2pm! Do come and join us. ❤️🕊🌿🌏

Poems for Peace was a community writing project that invited participants to respond to the topic of peace, using poetry as a vehicle for discussion and writing:

"Throughout the project, participants found ways of exploring ideas of peace, whether by workshopping a poem over a couple of sessions, or simply adding a line to the communal poetry wall in Liverpool’s radical bookshop, ‘News from Nowhere’.

Participants included the Ukrainian Storytelling Group, participants from the News from Nowhere bookshop, and the University of the Third Age (Liverpool) Creative Writing group. Participants wrote in various ways: by using 'broken' extracts from poems which had been specially commissioned by The University of Liverpool, by responding more generally to a particular piece of writing, or by writing collaborative and individual poems purely based on their own experiences and reflections on peace.

Writing about peace at a time when we see the devastating impacts of war on our timelines and in the news daily has been a thought-provoking and humbling experience.

The Poems for Peace workshops were funded by the University of Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing and the University of Liverpool. It was facilitated by The Windows Project writer Alison Down, and University of Liverpool Creative Writers postgraduate, Emily Turnbull. We are grateful to the five poets published by Pavilion Poetry -- Mona Arshi, Bhanu Kapil, Anita Pati, Denise Saul and Martha Sprackland -- who provided poems on the theme of peace as prompts for the project’s writing and thinking.
We are now launching the zine produced during the project. This free zine will be distributed on Saturday, the 20th of June at 2 pm, to coincide with the International Conference Against War being held in London.

We are really pleased to be back at New from Nowhere for the launch. Participants and those interested in this work are invited to drop in to pick up a copy of the zine and contribute to a final communal poem.

We hope to see you there."

12/06/2026