Peace & Freedom Press are a British

United Kingdom

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 small press based in Whaplode Drove

Whaplode Drove

Whaplode Drove is a small village in South Holland, Lincolnshire. It is approximately 10 miles south of the market town of Spalding, Lincolnshire. The hamlet of Shepeau Stow is nearby.The village has a post office/shop, church, garage and a social club...

, and was co-founded by Paul Rance in 1985. Peace & Freedom magazine

Peace & Freedom magazine

Peace & Freedom is a poetry, prose, and art magazine, first published by Paul Rance in 1985. It is one of a number of publications produced by Peace & Freedom Press, which Rance co-founded with Hartlepool poet Andrew Bruce....

, also launched in 1985, remains its oldest title, and was originally a poetry and music fanzine

Fanzine

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. Early issues featured the likes of Chumbawamba

Chumbawamba

Chumbawamba is a British musical group who have, over a career spanning nearly three decades, played punk rock, pop-influenced music, world music, and folk music...

, Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...

, Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War...

, and, oddly, Nick Berry

Nick Berry

Nicholas "Nick" Berry is a British television actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Simon Wicks in the British soap opera EastEnders from 1985 to 1990 and as PC Nick Rowan in the British drama television series Heartbeat from 1992 to 1998.-Career:Berry started acting at the age of...

, when he was in EastEnders

EastEnders

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. Peace & Freedom magazine evolved into a more poetry orientated publication, and now also contains the odd short story and essay. The underground anarcho rock band The Peace & Freedom Band

The Peace & Freedom Band

The Peace & Freedom Band were a British group, formed in 1986, by two underground poets - Luton-born Paul Rance, and Hartlepool's Andy Bruce.Basically coming out of Peace & Freedom magazine - which was then a music/poetry fanzine edited by Rance, and later photocopied by Bruce - The Peace & Freedom...

 were an offshoot of the publishing arm.

A second title, Eastern Rainbow

Eastern Rainbow

Eastern Rainbow is a magazine, published by Peace & Freedom Press, and features material relating to 20th century arts and culture.First published in 1992, Eastern Rainbow consists of poetry, short stories, articles, artwork, and photography relating to the 20th century...

, was launched in 1992 as a "20th century arts and culture mag". Consisting of poetry, short stories, articles, artwork, and photography relating to the 20th century, it has featured articles on Martin Luther King, Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett , born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter, best remembered as a founding member of the band Pink Floyd. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter during the band's psychedelic years, providing major musical and stylistic...

, David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

, Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....

, Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

, George Best

George Best

George Best was a professional footballer from Northern Ireland, who played for Manchester United and the Northern Ireland national team. He was a winger whose game combined pace, acceleration, balance, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to beat defenders...

, Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...

, Judy Garland

Judy Garland

Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...

, George Orwell

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist...

, Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

, Star Trek

Star Trek

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, and The Prisoner

The Prisoner

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.

In 1995, Peace & Freedom Press began to publish paperback

Paperback

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 anthologies of poetry, prose, and art, beginning with a collection of humorous verse and art, entitled A Laugh A Stanza. This publication was followed the next year by a collection of poetry and art entiled Blue + Green.

Since the turn of the century Peace & Freedom Press have published Millennium Memories - a collection looking back to the past millennium

Millennium

A millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years —from the Latin phrase , thousand, and , year—often but not necessarily related numerically to a particular dating system....

 and forward to the next; Planet Of Love - a book dealing with the many aspects of love, spiritual, physical, love of family, friends and pets, love of nature, and love of life and living; The Magic Of Animals - all about the magic of animals, from the worm to the whale; Science Friction - a diverse collection of sci-fi poetry, prose and art; Reigning Cats & Dogs - an anthology saluting cats and dogs; My Gun Is Bigger Than Your Gun - a powerful paperback of poetry, prose and art all about war; Green Vibrations - an anthology of poetry, prose and art covering the wonders of nature, the beauty of animals, and environmental

Environmentalism

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 and animal welfare

Animal welfare

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 issues. Smaller anthologies have included two non-paperback booklets, both collections of dinosaur

Dinosaur

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poetry and dinosaur illustrations.

Peace & Freedom Press anthologies

• Dinosaur Delight (1994)
• A Laugh A Stanza (1995)
• Blue + Green (1996)
• Dinosaur Delight 2 (1996)
• Millennium Memories (2000)
• Planet Of Love (2001)
• The Magic Of Animals (2002)
• Science Friction (2002)
• Reigning Cats & Dogs (2003)
• My Gun Is Bigger Than Your Gun (2003)
• Green Vibrations (2004)