The Southwark Archives
SE1 Community Newspaper Collection
SE1 reported news other papers did not print. From 1975 to 1991 teams of volunteers wrote and produced SE1 for the south London neighbourhoods of Waterloo and North Southwark. It’s 147 issues tell the stories of people’s fights to improve housing conditions, protect jobs, improve local services and build a sense of history and community.
SE1 newspaper office, Meymott St, London, SE1 (c1975) © Southwark Archives
This site has been created by SE1 Stories in collaboration with Southwark Archives. SE1 Stories is a group of volunteers who were involved with the SE1 community newspaper and with other local community action groups in the 1970s and early 80s. Southwark Archives holds a collection of nearly all the issues of SE1 and of the photographs associated with them. SE1 Stories has been working with the Archives to record the backstory to the collection and highlight its relevance to today.
The site includes every the issue of SE1, drawn from the Southwark collection and our members’ archives.
Did you once work on or read SE1? Do you have memories of the events it reported? We’d love to hear from you.
Note: It is not yet possible to search across all issues, but you can search text within individual issues. Click on a cover below. A PDF document of the issue opens. With a keyboard use Command + F (Mac) / Control + F (Windows) to open a search box. With a mobile, if you cannot see a magnifying glass icon to start the search, check the Share options for Find. You might need to download Acrobat Reader.
July 1975 - March 1981
Jan 1982 - Feb 1991
