Studio 1 & 2: Three British Anarchists in America

This talk examines the lives of three British migrants who became Individualist anarchists and part of the network around the journal Liberty. The Bristolian activist and poet, Miriam Daniell was a defiant free spirit who clashed fiercely with the basket maker and writer, William Bailie. Bailie later lived in a free union with her close friend from Bristol, Helena Born and wrote the first biography of America’s original anarchist, Josiah Warren. Bailie and Born’s friend, Archibald Simpson, a printer, lived with American birth control advocate Flora Tilton until her death. Returning to Britain, Simpson became a Trotskyist, living in Bristol during World War 2.

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