20 years of “planning” the Tolmers Square office development

Jamie Gough, Middlesex Polytechnic, Geography and Planning Papers No 5, July 1981, Middlesex Polytechnic.

“Art as a mass political weapon”: the Poster Collective 1972-1982

Christine Halsall, Luca Barbieri, Jane Dixon-Halsall, Leviticus Hinds eds., 2020. Limited edition. Enquiries about availability sent to info@tolmers.net will be passed on.

The Battle for Tolmers Square

Nick Wates, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976. Reissued 2012.
Digital and paper copies available from Routledge Revivals, the NWA shop or Amazon.

Download ‘final chapter‘: The Tolmers Tale End, unpublished article, 1984.

Goodbye to London, Radical Art and Politics in the 70’s

Astrid Proll ed, Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2010. Includes essay on Tolmers by Sacha Craddock. 
www.hatjecantz.de/

Jeans and Beans and a Tub of Miso; Memories of Community Foods 1976 – 2006

Tim Powell, 2013
Great book charting the rise of what is now ‘Britain’s experts in the procurement, sale and distribution of organic and natural dried fruits, nuts, seeds, pulses, grains and branded health foods’, from humble beginnings in a squat in Prince of Wales Crescent, then a short term lease on the south side of Tolmers Square and now an industrial estate in North London.
(from timp684[at]gmail.com)

The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Yale University Press, 2012.
ISBN 978-0-300-15201-2
‘Yet there was an upside to these dire events [the rundown nature of London’s squares in the 1970s]. Demolitions and threats to Georgian Bloomsbury and to Tolmers Square in Euston (the ‘locus classicus of London’s intellectual squatting movement’), succeeded anew in drawing public attention to the plight of the squares, and precipitated the initial stirrings of the movement for their preservation.’ (page 270)

Making Places Better

Nick Wates, PhD by Publication thesis, University of Brighton, 2020. Study on the impact of Nick Wates’ books starting with The Battle for Tolmers Square. Download

The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

Oren Harman, W.W.Norton & Company Inc., 2010.
The last chapter tells the story of Tolmers during the time George Price was there. http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Author.aspx?ID=15582

Author’s precis at www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-s_5zkGL0

Robin Evans’s Empty Room: Collective Living in the 1970s and the Problem of Domestic Realism

Joseph Bedford, Burning Farm, 29 March 2024 See PDF

Tolmers in colour: Memories of a London squatter community

Nick Wates with Mae Dewsbery & Caroline Lwin, Bay Leaf Books, 2010 See details
Available from the NWA shop or from Amazon

Tolmers village: evolution or revolution

Ken Morgan, Oxford Polytechnic, 1974