Remember LOP
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Posting random bits & bobs here to help keep alive the memory of Leeds Other Paper (1974-1994), possibly the greatest little newspaper in the world. This account is maintained, after a fashion, by @writerlytone.bsky.social
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Remember LOP
@rememberlop.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Half a century has passed since the birth of Leeds Other Paper, an alternative local newspaper that uncovered many of the city’s less told stories. LOP lasted from 1974 to 1994, during which time it reported on social, political, economic and cultural life in Leeds from an alternative perspective.
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Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures 2026!
🦉 Lecture 4 - A City Transformed 1965-2025’: Leeds Civic Trust and 60 Years of Change in Leeds
👉 Wednesday 25 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster
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🦉 Lecture 4 - A City Transformed 1965-2025’: Leeds Civic Trust and 60 Years of Change in Leeds
👉 Wednesday 25 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster
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January 24, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures 2026!
🦉 Lecture 4 - A City Transformed 1965-2025’: Leeds Civic Trust and 60 Years of Change in Leeds
👉 Wednesday 25 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster
🔗 zurl.co/WavUG
🦉 Lecture 4 - A City Transformed 1965-2025’: Leeds Civic Trust and 60 Years of Change in Leeds
👉 Wednesday 25 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster
🔗 zurl.co/WavUG
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Not so much local news reporting going on these days, unless you are lucky enough to live somewhere covered by the likes of @thebristolcable.bsky.social, @liverpoolpost.bsky.social, @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social...
Support your local independent news outlet - you'll miss it when it's gone.
Support your local independent news outlet - you'll miss it when it's gone.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Not so much local news reporting going on these days, unless you are lucky enough to live somewhere covered by the likes of @thebristolcable.bsky.social, @liverpoolpost.bsky.social, @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social...
Support your local independent news outlet - you'll miss it when it's gone.
Support your local independent news outlet - you'll miss it when it's gone.
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Love @nowthenmag.bsky.social and this thoughtful callout for contributors, storytellers, is perfectly pitched
#Sheffield #Independent #journalism
nowthenmagazine.com/write-for-us
#Sheffield #Independent #journalism
nowthenmagazine.com/write-for-us
Write for Now Then
Now Then is dedicated to exploring exciting new ideas to make Sheffield and the wider world a better place – and our door is always open.
nowthenmagazine.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Love @nowthenmag.bsky.social and this thoughtful callout for contributors, storytellers, is perfectly pitched
#Sheffield #Independent #journalism
nowthenmagazine.com/write-for-us
#Sheffield #Independent #journalism
nowthenmagazine.com/write-for-us
January 20, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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'The Phlegm Cut Challenge Cup...'
ON THIS DAY :JANUARY 15 1989
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was at the Slough of Despond. Compare & contrast with the Yorkshire Post contemporaneous match report!!
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#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was at the Slough of Despond. Compare & contrast with the Yorkshire Post contemporaneous match report!!
@rememberlop.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 1:03 PM
'The Phlegm Cut Challenge Cup...'
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'There's nothing like people for making a place human' - 50 years ago this month the future of Kirkgate Market following a big fire was concerning Leeds Other Paper and its readers.
January 15, 2026 at 10:11 AM
'The Phlegm Cut Challenge Cup...'
ON THIS DAY :JANUARY 15 1989
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was at the Slough of Despond. Compare & contrast with the Yorkshire Post contemporaneous match report!!
@rememberlop.bsky.social
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was at the Slough of Despond. Compare & contrast with the Yorkshire Post contemporaneous match report!!
@rememberlop.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 1:03 PM
'The Phlegm Cut Challenge Cup...'
'There's nothing like people for making a place human' - 50 years ago this month the future of Kirkgate Market following a big fire was concerning Leeds Other Paper and its readers.
January 15, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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🎤Our annual series of FREE lunchtime lectures returns for its 19th year! As part of the Leeds 400 celebrations, the lectures focus on anniversaries marking the history Leeds.
📍 Leeds Minster. Every Wednesday in February. 13:00 🔗zurl.co/WavUG
#leeds400
📍 Leeds Minster. Every Wednesday in February. 13:00 🔗zurl.co/WavUG
#leeds400
January 13, 2026 at 11:40 AM
🎤Our annual series of FREE lunchtime lectures returns for its 19th year! As part of the Leeds 400 celebrations, the lectures focus on anniversaries marking the history Leeds.
📍 Leeds Minster. Every Wednesday in February. 13:00 🔗zurl.co/WavUG
#leeds400
📍 Leeds Minster. Every Wednesday in February. 13:00 🔗zurl.co/WavUG
#leeds400
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It's Thursday and that can mean only one thing; a new blog is up. This week we consider the purest form of art, fanzine covers. Renaissance, impressionism, cubism..none of that muck here but surrealism & abstract expressionism were never far away in zines.
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The Art of Fanzine Cover Art
Art is famously very subjective; “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated …
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January 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM
It's Thursday and that can mean only one thing; a new blog is up. This week we consider the purest form of art, fanzine covers. Renaissance, impressionism, cubism..none of that muck here but surrealism & abstract expressionism were never far away in zines.
footballfanzineculture.blog/2026/01/08/t...
footballfanzineculture.blog/2026/01/08/t...
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#FallFriday from January 1983, as reviewed by @jamesjamesbrown.bsky.social in Leeds Other Paper ⬇️
Just spotted this reference to #LeedsOtherPaper in @jamesjamesbrown.bsky.social's memoir Animal House, so I've dug out the review of #TheFall he mentions (from January 1983). LOP cuttings helped quite a few people get onto the music press back when there was such a thing.
January 9, 2026 at 11:27 AM
#FallFriday from January 1983, as reviewed by @jamesjamesbrown.bsky.social in Leeds Other Paper ⬇️
#FallFriday from January 1983, as reviewed by @jamesjamesbrown.bsky.social in Leeds Other Paper ⬇️
Just spotted this reference to #LeedsOtherPaper in @jamesjamesbrown.bsky.social's memoir Animal House, so I've dug out the review of #TheFall he mentions (from January 1983). LOP cuttings helped quite a few people get onto the music press back when there was such a thing.
January 9, 2026 at 11:27 AM
#FallFriday from January 1983, as reviewed by @jamesjamesbrown.bsky.social in Leeds Other Paper ⬇️
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'There's nothing like people for making a place human' - 50 years ago this month the future of Kirkgate Market following a big fire was concerning Leeds Other Paper and its readers.
January 5, 2026 at 9:56 AM
'There's nothing like people for making a place human' - 50 years ago this month the future of Kirkgate Market following a big fire was concerning Leeds Other Paper and its readers.
'There's nothing like people for making a place human' - 50 years ago this month the future of Kirkgate Market following a big fire was concerning Leeds Other Paper and its readers.
January 5, 2026 at 9:56 AM
'There's nothing like people for making a place human' - 50 years ago this month the future of Kirkgate Market following a big fire was concerning Leeds Other Paper and its readers.
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Letter in the Guardian by Sue O’Sullivan and Miriam David. On being part of the women’s liberation movement, in response to a long read by Susanna Rustin on the Sex Discrimination Act. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Collecting memories and stories of feminists | Letters
Letters: Sue O’Sullivan and Miriam David on being part of the women’s liberation movement, in response to a long read by Susanna Rustin on the Sex Discrimination Act. Plus a letter from Paul F Faupel
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December 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Letter in the Guardian by Sue O’Sullivan and Miriam David. On being part of the women’s liberation movement, in response to a long read by Susanna Rustin on the Sex Discrimination Act. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅
December 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅
December 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅
December 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅
Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅
December 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅
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Here's the first issue of York Stop Press!, a paper produced by striking @nujofficial.bsky.social members during the #WinterOfDiscontent in Dec 1978. We at Leeds Other Paper helped with production - as a workers' co-op we were not part of the provincial newspapers dispute.
December 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Here's the first issue of York Stop Press!, a paper produced by striking @nujofficial.bsky.social members during the #WinterOfDiscontent in Dec 1978. We at Leeds Other Paper helped with production - as a workers' co-op we were not part of the provincial newspapers dispute.
Here's the first issue of York Stop Press!, a paper produced by striking @nujofficial.bsky.social members during the #WinterOfDiscontent in Dec 1978. We at Leeds Other Paper helped with production - as a workers' co-op we were not part of the provincial newspapers dispute.
December 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Here's the first issue of York Stop Press!, a paper produced by striking @nujofficial.bsky.social members during the #WinterOfDiscontent in Dec 1978. We at Leeds Other Paper helped with production - as a workers' co-op we were not part of the provincial newspapers dispute.
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Continuing our series on places of significance in labour history, Kathy Davies introduces Coney Street in York, where in 1978 striking journalists picketed the offices of the Yorkshire Evening Press
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Coney Street, York: a place in labour history
Continuing our series on places of significance in labour history, Kathy Davies introduces Coney Street in York. As a resident of York, I frequently walk down Coney Street, one of the city’s oldest…
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December 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Continuing our series on places of significance in labour history, Kathy Davies introduces Coney Street in York, where in 1978 striking journalists picketed the offices of the Yorkshire Evening Press
sslh.org.uk/2025/12/10/c...
sslh.org.uk/2025/12/10/c...
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And in that issue #TheManInTheStand match report from the heartland of Miners'Strike - Castleford v Widnes
December 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
And in that issue #TheManInTheStand match report from the heartland of Miners'Strike - Castleford v Widnes
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Here's Leeds Other Paper's coverage of that for you.
@greenhamwomen.bsky.social
@greenhamwomen.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Here's Leeds Other Paper's coverage of that for you.
@greenhamwomen.bsky.social
@greenhamwomen.bsky.social