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Co-op Paths to Peace and the Peace Sign

CND celebrated its 60th anniversary last month – and here is a look at the role…

Rochdale Pioneers Museum makes list of 10 key historic sites of industrial England

'What the Rochdale Pioneers did was to bring a new model of sharing wealth to the…

Manchester building formerly used by Co-operative Insurance facing demolition

The 13-storey building at 55 Portland Street dates back to 1961

Obituary: Bruce Thordarson (1948-2018), former director general of the ICA

Mr Thordarson 'will be remembered as a remarkably staunch advocate for co-operatives all around the world'

New documentary tells the story of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen

The 45 minute documentary pays tribute to the founder of co-operative banking

Co-op banks celebrate Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen’s 200th birthday

The founding father of credit co-operatives founded a lending bank in 1864, to tackle loan shark…

Steam railway operator selling community shares to form a rail co-op

Vintage Trains, which runs a fleet of locomotives around the country, needs to raise £800,000 by…

East of England Co-op celebrates 150 years of co-operation

'We’ve never been afraid to try new things and adapt to change, and our story involves…

Book review: Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain 1918-1939

Edinburgh University Press, 2018

How immigrants built Britain’s community businesses

From Jewish immigrants through to African-Caribbean radicals, there have been waves of inspirational people who have…

How Georgia’s forgotten revolution pointed the way to a co-operative economy

'A Marxist party carrying out a democratic socialist revolution in an entire country? I know of…

Snapshots in time: Looking back at 12 early examples of co-operation

Ed Mayo from Co-operatives UK has just published a history of co-operation – and finds cases…