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28th January 1996: News from Nowhere bookshop avoid eviction by Frensons developers and move to present building

News from Nowhere is Liverpool’s longest-standing radical bookshop. It was first set up on 1 May 1974 in premises on Manchester Street. It moved to nearby Whitechapel in 1977 and to 112 Bold Street in 1989. It takes its name from the utopian novel of socialist William Morris and is run as a women’s co-operative committed to social change.
In 1995 property developers Frensons, who own large swathes of property in the area, threatened to evict News from Nowhere. The bookshop mounted a vigorous campaign to go alongside the legal action and succeeded in staying put until 29 January 1996 when it moved to its present location of 96 Bold Street.
The bookshop is a good friend of Nerve magazine and all sections of the left. It sells books you will not easily find elsewhere and will order anything in print.
The shop’s website, which includes a facility to order books, is www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk.