Other lives: Managing director of the publishing company New English Library in the 1970s
February 2019
Spare Rib digital archive faces closure in event of no-deal Brexit
EU copyright exception would no longer protect British Library scans of pioneering feminist magazine
June 2018
Matchgirls, Spare Rib and the struggles of women composers
Letters: Graham Johnson hails the matchgirls’ strike of 1888, while Carole Underwood celebrates Spare Rib magazine, plus views on women in music from Nicola LeFanu and Diana Ambache
July 2015
A book that changed me
How a feminist anthology taught me that outsiders can pull together
Mark Haddon
I grew up on a diet of Carry On films, Benny Hill and my parents’ Daily Telegraph. The Spare Rib Reader helped me articulate an unease that I had felt for as long as I could remember
As the British Library’s collection of Spare Rib magazines launches online, we look back its legacy – and ask the archive’s curator to pick the articles revealing the magazine at its sharp, irreverent, revolutionary best
Spare Rib goes digital: 21 years of radical feminist magazine put online
British Library project succeeds in publishing digital archive of all 239 editions, charting grassroots movement, after callout to contributors
Archive copies of the iconic feminist magazine Spare Rib have been digitised, giving researchers and activists around the world the chance to delve into its back copies. The British Library will host a curated Spare Rib website featuring 300 selected pages from the magazine, alongside articles written by academics, activists and former contributors about its history. Here’s a selection of front pages
December 2013
Spare Rib contributors sought so editions can be digitised and saved
British Library aims to trace writers, photographers and artists whose work appeared in magazine from 1972 to 1993
October 2013
The women's blog
The Feminist Times is just as necessary as Spare Rib
The women's blog
Charlotte Raven's Feminist Times is no Spare Rib, but is already controversial
September 2013
Rewind Radio: The Reunion; The Ideas That Make Us – review
Radio 4's reunion of the women behind Spare Rib was a sobering reminder of the sexist 70s, says Miranda Sawyer
June 2013
Spare Rib was born of grassroots feminism. It's not a brand
Marsha Rowe
Spare Rib relaunch stalls over use of iconic name
May 2013
Charlotte Raven: why feminism needs to get radical again
The editor of the soon-to-relaunch Spare Rib has firm ideas about what modern feminism should be about – and there's little room for anything superficial
April 2013
Let Spare Rib reflect all the richness of online feminism
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Feminism now seems ubiquitous – and irrelevant. That's the test for Spare Rib
Tanya Gold
Media Monkey
Media Monkey's Diary: Roger Mosey, Luis Suarez and Spare Rib
Welcome back, Spare Rib. You're needed
Sophie Wilkinson
Spare Rib: Rosie Boycott joins team relaunching feminist magazine
Spare Rib magazine to be relaunched by Charlotte Raven
