Stuart Christie Papers

Period 1961-1982
Total size  7 microfilms
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Glasgow 1946; anarchist, activist, writer; hitchhiked to Madrid in August 1964 with a rucksack full of explosives meant for an attack on Franco; arrested by the Spanish police and sentenced to twenty years, but granted pardon in 1967; arrested again in London in 1970 for allegedly being a member of the Angry Brigade (a terrorist group) and charged with conspiracy to cause explosion, cleared after a long trial in 1972; editor of the Cienfuegos Press, Sanday, Orkney Islands.

Content

Correspondence 1981; file on his trial in Spain in 1964 and his imprisonment; files on the Angry Brigade trial in London 1970-1972; file on the arrest in Germany of his wife Brenda Earl Christie in connection with a fire in an Iberia airplane 1970; typescripts of his books `The Christie File', autobiography published in an abridged version, and `The Floodgates of Anarchy', written together with Albert Melzer; documents on trials and imprisonment of anarchists in Spain, Italy, etc., and some other subjects c. 1961-1974.

NB. Originals in private possession.

Arrangement

His papers were received by the IISH in 1981. The documents were microfilmed in 1997, with the exception of the previous inv.nos. 6, 15-17. The original papers were returned to Stuart Christie

Processing information

List made by Tiny de Boer in 1997