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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's a great little exhibition about 400 years of #LeedsHistory on at @leedslibraries.bsky.social at the moment - and it's really good to see the role of the local alternative press properly acknowledged. #Leeds400 #LeedsOtherPaper #ChapeltownNews

Copies of Leeds Other Paper and The Other Paper on display at Leeds Central Library as part of the exhibition - Leodis: 400 years of Leeds in the Leeds Libraries Collection (on until 11 Nov 2026)

Copy of Chapeltown News on display at Leeds Central Library as part of the exhibition - Leodis: 400 years of Leeds in the Leeds Libraries Collection (on until 11 Nov 2026)

Copies of Leeds Mercury and Leeds Other Paper on display at Leeds Central Library as part of the exhibition - Leodis: 400 years of Leeds in the Leeds Libraries Collection (on until 11 Nov 2026)

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Interesting read from @braddeasjourno.bsky.social here ⬇️

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Glad to hear Leeds Other Paper's role in covering the local music scene being acknowledged in this audio trail.

Cover of flyer/map for the Alternative Music in Leeds audio trail by Leeds Nomad - image of a City Square statue holding a microphone in the air.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Glad to hear Leeds Other Paper's role in covering the local music scene being acknowledged in this audio trail.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The wall of sound - it's good to see former Leeds Other Paper photographer #TonyWoolgar being remembered with a whole wall of his Leeds music scene pics, on now at #NorthernGuitars on Call Lane in the city (just around the corner from LOP's last premises). #LeedsHistory

Sign on wall inside Northern Guitars cafe bar reading: Photos in this section by legendary Leeds photographer Tony Woolgar

Some of Tony Woolgar's photos on display at Northern Guitars cafe bar in Leeds

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Fifty years ago... Here's the 1976 #ChapeltownCarnival as covered at the time by Leeds Other Paper.

Photo of revellers from LOP 38, captioned: Leeds West Indian Carnival - back page

LOP 38 (4 Sept 1976) front page, main headline: FEARS FOR SAFETY OF LEEDS BUSES. Also pic from Chapeltown Carnival in Leeds.

Back page of LOP 38 (4 Sept 1976) with report and 2 more pics from Leeds West Indian Carnival.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Fifty years ago... Here's the 1976 #ChapeltownCarnival as covered at the time by Leeds Other Paper.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

PLUS...even better news for northerners..If you missed the Voice of the Fans exhibition last year, here's another chance to see some of the panels. They are on the 3rd floor at Leeds Central Library, on display until the autumn. bsky.app/profile/vfta...

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Copes of the book are now being distributed free across Leeds - see here ⬇️

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Copes of the book are now being distributed free across Leeds - see here ⬇️

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The Exchange @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In other news last night saw the launch of a book including my latest attempt to properly record the rich history of self publishing in the People’s History of Leeds volume 2. Brilliant evening, event and people. You can read about this wonderful project here www.peopleshistoryofleeds.com

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's great to see Leeds Other Paper remembered in the People's History of Leeds, volume 2 of which was launched last night (@peopleshistorylds.bsky.social, @leedsopf.bsky.social, @leedsmuseums.bsky.social).

Display stand featuring 3 front pages of Leeds Other Paper plus quotes from Gordon Wilson and Tony Harcup.

Display stand for the People's History of Leeds chapter on the DIY Revolution, introduced by Peter Slater.

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The Exchange @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is the Old Red Lion, one of the Smith's pubs in Leeds, closed since Covid. @miajankowicz.bsky.social gives a beautiful description of the "eerie sense of the uncanny" generated when looking through its window.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

With #LeedsPride coming up this weekend, here's a reminder that Leeds Other Paper was doing this stuff long before many of today's revellers were born. As well as relevant news and features, LOP launched its 'Out in the North' column back in 1987. Long gone, never forgotten.

LOP 497 (18 Sept 1987) front page piece announcing: 'Out in Leeds: new section starts this week - your guide to lesbian and gay activities and entertainments in the city'

LOP 497 (18 Sept 1987) 'Out in the North' listings

LOP 404 (22 Nov 1985) front page headline: Taking the lid off AIDS

LOP/Northern Star 794 (8 July 1993) front page headline: Heterosexuality - can it be cured? what causes it?

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Rachel 🛼 @raegun.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Leeds Other Paper closed down the year after we moved up north but it makes me happy that we had a popular radical paper here for a while. And my workplace maintains a complete archive - would be wonderful to see it fully catalogued or even digitised some day: tinyurl.com/mrksnddm

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Leeds Other Paper and alternative voices in local journalism

Lane Osborne, LAW Collections Assistant, writes: Leeds Other Paper, later known as Northern Star in 1991, was a local alternative newspaper that ran from 1974-1994. It was formed by a group of anar…

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James Lewis @jam-esl-ewis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

wish it was before I was born … same week as my 10tn birthday

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Simon Pirani @simonpirani.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I am at the 140th Durham miners gala today, along with I'd guess 150,000+ others. One of the world's greatest celebrations of working class identity

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The Exchange @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our editor @djstimms.bsky.social in conversation with Media North mag:

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

An exhibition has just opened at the @peacemuseumuk.bsky.social at Salts Mill in Saltaire about the anti-fascist carnival and sit-down protest that took place in Bradford 50 years ago this month - here's how Leeds Other Paper covered it at the time.

LOP 33 (26 June 1976) headline: Anti-fascist carnival in Bradford.
Plus photo of sit-down protest surrounded by police officers in Bradford city centre; and photo of York Shoestring Theatre in Manningham Park.

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Louis Kasatkin @louiskasatkin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

As #TheManInTheStand #RugbyLeague raconteur, #LeedsOtherPaper published 245 match reports from 1983/84 to 89/90.Then another 4 seasons of match previews which I will post once this project reaches its apotheosis. Here's a progress report.A year ago it was 89 now 192. @rememberlop.bsky.social

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

On this day in 1984 striking miner Joe Green died on a Yorkshire picket line. I'm pretty sure this portrait was produced in tribute by Brian Lewis of Yorkshire Art Circus, who passed it on for publication in Leeds Other Paper. #MinersStrike #JoeGreen #BrianLewis

LOP 331 (22 June 1984): In Memoriam Joe Green 15th June 1984

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Here's some of Leeds Other Paper's coverage from the time. #LeedsHistory #Chapeltown

LOP 23 (December 1975): Fireworks in Chapeltown

LOP 35 (24 July 1976): Chapeltown trial report.
Plus photo of protest on Town Hall steps, placards include: 'Blame the system not the youth'

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Here's some of Leeds Other Paper's coverage from the time. #LeedsHistory #Chapeltown

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