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Unpopular Books

London publisher of leaflets, pamphlets and books

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ7897306
Source-derived summary

Unpopular Books is a publisher in London's East End, producing leaflets, pamphlets, and books.

Published work

Leaflets, pamphlets and booklets

Jean Barrot - What is Communism (1984)

Jean Barrot - Fascism/Antifascism

Jean Barrot - What is Situationism (1986)

Ruins of Glamour, Glamour of Ruins (1986)

Jacques Camatte - The Echo of Time (1988)

Alan Cohen - Decadence of the Shamans: Or Shamanism as a Key to the Secrets of Communism (1992) ISBN 1-871593-00-X

Class Struggle in a German Town by Temp workers on the construction site of the nuclear power plant Philippsburg

London Psychogeographical Association and the Archaeogeodetic Association - The Great Conjunction: The Symbols of a College, the Death of a King and the Maze on the Hill (1993) ISBN 1-871593-05-0

Asger Jorn - Open Creation and its Enemies (1994) ISBN 1-871593-20-4

Luther Blissett & Stewart Home - Green Apocalypse (1995).

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“Unpopular Books” enters the record as london publisher of leaflets, pamphlets and books. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Unpopular, Books and London can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 1986, 1988, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Unpopular, Books and London.
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“Unpopular Books” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Unpopular, Books and London provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7897306. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1984, 1986, 1988 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from Unpopular Books” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.