As you may be aware with less than 24 hours notice London was put into tier four restrictions this then morphed into a full national lockdown. This means the shop is now shut. While you cannot come to the shop in person we are still fulfilling online orders (twice a week) so you should get […]
December Opening Hours
Hi everyone. In December we are attempting to return to as near to normal as we can with opening hours. We reopen the shop (after national lockdown) on Wednesday the 2nd December and our last day in December will be the 23rd, and then we take our annual week and a bit break for the […]
Important Lockdown Update
On Thursday, 5th November, the shop will be closing in line with the national lockdown rules until the last day of November. We shall still be fulfilling online orders and any support you can give us during this time would be much appreciated. We will be going back to our twice a week schedule so […]
Current shop opening hours

Hi everyone. With the uncertainty around Covid people are understandably uncertain when the shop is open. Currently our hours are; Monday – 12 to 6pm Wednesday – 12 to 6pm Friday – 12 to 6pm Saturday – 12 to 6pm Sunday – 12 to 4pm And we are closed on Tuesday and Thursday. This is […]
Bookshop re-opening Friday 21st August

Yes. It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Freedom Bookshop’s grand re-opening. We’ll be opening next week for an initial long weekend of Friday 21st August to Monday 24th (12 noon to 6pm). We’ve re-organised the shop, are asking everyone to “mask up” and will be limiting numbers to four customers at a time. […]
Update
Hi everyone. Just a quick update. The shop is obviously still closed and it’s unlikely to reopen for at least a few weeks. We’ll keep you updated, but rest assured when we re-open it will be when we think it is safe for our staff and customers rather than when the government decrees we […]
Books and journals from Freedom Press in 2019

Now that our latest journal and Anarchism is Movement have arrived that’s our publishing done for 2019! Over the last three years we’ve published nine titles with a really broad spectrum of topics, from our updated titles like Why Work? (which will hopefully be out in another new edition again next year) and deep ecology […]
Angel Alley: Summer update

Thanks to an extremely busy spring at Freedom, which has included the launch of our new book, the latest Freedom Journal and being core organisers of an entire festival, the summer update is a bit behind schedule but worry not! Below is all the Alley anarcho-news that’s fit to print. In the Bookshop Thanks to […]
Angel Alley’s sprightly Spring

Time for one of our infrequent updates from the (new!) desk at Angel Alley, so strap in and gird those loins for a taste of the fabled anarchist work ethic. In the shop The bookshop has hosted a multitude of events this month, in particular a successful fundraising quiz for Queer Care compered by one […]
Fixing up the Freedom archives

When an unknown attacker tried to burn Freedom Press down in 2013 they very nearly destroyed archives of our newspaper which go back to the 1920s – so now we’re working on restoring them. The Freedom Newspaper archive is one of the most important for British anarchism. Not necessarily because it always had the […]