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Photographs
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Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Brenda Christie and Branwen Christie, Sanday, Orkney (1980)
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Stuart Christie
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1980
Branwen
Brenda Christie
Orkney
Over The Water
Sanday
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Photographs
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Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Spanish exile, José Vicente Ortuño, Sanday (1980)
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Stuart Christie: 'José Vicente Ortuño, comrade, author of 'Bitter Roots' and 'Legion of the Lost', former French Legionnaire, sword cane master and an all-round Renaissance Man you could rely on in a tight corner. Even the 'kye' were impressed ('Over the Water' in the background).'
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Stuart Christie
Anti-Franco
Exile
Jose Vicente Ortuno
Orkney
Over The Water
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Photographs
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Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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'The Book Shop', Over The Water, Orkney (1979)
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Stuart Christie: ''The Bookshop', 'Over the Water', 1979: as far as the 'Wee Free' minister of Papa Westray was concerned this was Orkney's equivalent of the caves in the Bora Bora Mountains...'
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Stuart Christie
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1979
Orkney
Over The Water
Radical publishing
Sanday
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Photographs
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Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Stuart Christie, Over The Water (1980)
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Stuart Christie: '‘Over the Water’: making sure the polis had gone! A sergeant and a constable had just delivered a letter from the Chief Constable of Grampian Police notifying me that my application for a shotgun licence had been rejected. One argument was that I could then purchase an untold number of shotguns with which I could provision the Orcadian Citizens’ Militia — which was then very much in the news over a proposed SAS exercise linked to possible uranium mining on the island. The sergeant and constable studiously ignored the empty shotgun cartridges scattered around the yard and driveway.'
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Stuart Christie
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1980
Free Winged Eagle
Orkney
Over The Water
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Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Stuart Christie, Over The Water (1980)
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Stuart Christie: 'Over the Water, Sanday, Orkney (Dec 1980): with Megan (left) and Mirk (right). Megan is looking slightly cowed as she's just been told off for chasing sheep. Mirk, on the other hand couldn't give a toss. The original owner of 'Over the Water', built sometime in the 18th Century I believe, was a sneaky Jacobite by the name of King ... ('The King — over the water!')...
It was around that time the the Chief Constable of the Grampian Police sent me a letter (hand delivered by a Sergeant and Constable specially flown up to Sanday — from Inverness via Kirkwall) to say that he was refusing my application for a shotgun licence (because of my conviction by a Francoist Council of War) and that if I wanted to challenge his decision I would have to deposit £1,000 with the High Court in Edinburgh. All this happened at the time we (a loose conglomeration of anarchists and libertarians in Orkney) successfully halted (among other things) a major SAS manoeuvre to secure Orkney's uranium deposits. A letter to 'The Orcadian' from Ross McGilchrist (an anarchist lightkeeper at Cantick Head, Longhope, How) spoke of an Orcadian 'Citizens' Militia' waiting for them with shotguns to shoot them out of the sky if they decided to drop in. Our local (alternative) paper, 'The Free-Winged Eagle' (published from 'Over the Water') was also responsible for exposing the role of Brigadier Malcolm Dennison, Lord Lieutenant of Orkney, as MI6's 'surrogate' security 'adviser' to Sultan Qaboos of Oman (after having helped overthrow his father!); we also played a small part in helping to halt the proposed major seal cull at the time (a large and ongoing part, of course, being played by Ross Flett). Not really surprised the Chief Constable opposed my shotgun licence application. I learned later that the argument was in fact that with a licence I could purchase multiple shotguns and rifles and, possible, arm a militia! As he handed me the letter in the gravel-ash yard outside 'Over the Water', the sergeant studiously avoided referring to the empty, discarded shotgun cartridges strewn around the place....'
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Stuart Christie
Cienfuegos Press
Exile
Free Winged Eagle
Orkney
Over The Water
Police
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Photographs
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An account of the resource
Photographs of Stuart's friends, comrades, and acquaintances over the years.
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Stuart Christie
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Stuart Christie in the editorial office of Cienfuegos Press, Orkney (1980)
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Stuart Christie: '1980, (the Steading) ‘Over the Water’, Sanday, Orkney: the then editorial address of Cienfuegos Press, ‘Black Flag’ and ‘The Free-Winged Eagle’, monthly scourge of Northern Isles’ malfeasors, the Orkney Islands Council, the agents of Hyperborean reaction and all the rest of Satan’s little helpers in the region. This photo was taken soon after the nationwide hoo-ha that followed the publication of our guerrilla warfare manual, ‘Towards A Citizens’ Militia. Anarchist alternatives to NATO and the Warsaw Pact’. Apart from ‘questions being asked in the House’ we were anathematized from the pulpit by the then ‘Wee Free’ minister of Papa Westray who warned his congregation not to subscribe to — or read — ‘The Free-Winged Eagle’ as it was the provenance of the Devil (who had taken up residence and was running a children’s bookshop on Sanday, me!).
* As a matter of historical interest, or next-door neighbour, Davie Matches, was not only the last Norn-speaker on the island, but also the last surviving member of the island’s once thriving ‘Society of the Horseman's Grip and Word’.
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Stuart Christie
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1980
Cienfuegos Press
Exile
Free Winged Eagle
Orkney
Over The Water
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Cienfuegos Press
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Various
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After Stuart was acquitted by jury in the Angry Brigade trial, he made the decision, following a ‘tip off’ from a special branch officer, to leave London. In 1974, after a judicious period of exile in rural Yorkshire, Stuart and Brenda headed to Orkney, where their daughter, Branwen, was born. Here, with the help of Brenda, Meltzer and others, he set up the ‘Cienfuegos’ Publishing House, where he translated and published a number of elusive Spanish texts. Prisoner solidarity work with the Black Cross would also continue. By the mid-1970s, the Anarchist Black Cross and Cienfuegos Press had taken on a much broader internationalist remit, aiding political prisoners with parcels, letters and donations not only in Spain, but in France, West Germany, Italy, and Northern Ireland.
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'Have You Seen the Writing on the Wall?' Cienfuegos Press Advert, New Statesman (1979)
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19 November 1979
Cienfuegos
Orkney
Over The Water
Sanday
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Cienfuegos Press
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Various
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An account of the resource
After Stuart was acquitted by jury in the Angry Brigade trial, he made the decision, following a ‘tip off’ from a special branch officer, to leave London. In 1974, after a judicious period of exile in rural Yorkshire, Stuart and Brenda headed to Orkney, where their daughter, Branwen, was born. Here, with the help of Brenda, Meltzer and others, he set up the ‘Cienfuegos’ Publishing House, where he translated and published a number of elusive Spanish texts. Prisoner solidarity work with the Black Cross would also continue. By the mid-1970s, the Anarchist Black Cross and Cienfuegos Press had taken on a much broader internationalist remit, aiding political prisoners with parcels, letters and donations not only in Spain, but in France, West Germany, Italy, and Northern Ireland.
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Cienfuegos Press Advert, New Statesman, 1979
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12 October 1979
Cienfuegos
Orkney
Over The Water
Zapata