B.P.C. Books Catalogue
B.P.C. titles -eleven in all – published to date (2022-2025) as paperback and ebook, available on Amazon.
For readers who don’t use Amazon, most of our titles can be obtained as ebooks at 22,000 libraries around the world, courtesy of PublishDrive. Ebooks ISBNs available for libraries are given below.
1839: The Chartist Insurrection and the Newport Rising, by David Black and Chris Ford, with an Introduction by John McDonnell M.P. (new edition of the book published by Unkant in 2012)
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ISBN-for libraries – : 9781919342597
In History Today, January 2022, Katrina Navickas wrote:‘The year most likely to result in a revolutionary moment was 1839.’ David Black and Chris Ford’s book supports this view. First published in 2012 by the late Unkant Books, it is now back in print, both as a BPC paperback and ebook, revised and copy-edited.
From Reviews of the First Edition
Ben Watson’s blurb-on-the-back: ‘In retrieving the suppressed history of the Chartist Insurrection, David Black and Chris Ford have produced a revolutionary handbook.’
Dan La Botz, New Politics ‘Black and Ford have written a fast-paced, narrative history of the 1839 Insurrection, filled with thumbnail sketches of the Chartist movement’s major figures, descriptions of the most important Chartist organizations and their politics in brief, excerpts from contemporary speeches, and parliamentary debates, and wonderful descriptions of the movement’s rise, growth, and spread throughout Britain. All of this is based on the most masterful command of the sources: newspapers, parliamentary records, memoirs, private papers, and all of the secondary literature. They tell their story in the most straightforward way but at a breathtaking clip that contributes to the sense of the excitement of the movement and its culmination in the insurrection.’
Stephen Roberts, People’s Charter ‘I read this book in one sitting as I sheltered from the pouring rain at Bodnant Gardens in North Wales. Based on a wide range of secondary sources and easy to read, it provided a welcome way of spending a few hours whilst waiting for the weather to clear (it didn’t!). The authors tell the story of a year when they assert the conditions for a working class revolution existed… For the authors a hero of the Chartist story emerges… George Julian Harney. And rightly so: Harney should be a hero to us all.’
March 2025
The Phantasmagoria of Capital: A Short History of the Commodity, the Spectacle and its Discontents, by David Black
Ebook ISBN=for libraries: 9781919342573
WiseBooks Series 1 -5
Lost Texts Around King Mob, by Dave and Stuart Wise. with contributions from John Barker, Chris Gray, Ronald Hunt, Phil Meyler and Fred Vermorel
Dialectical Butterflies: Ecocide, Extinction Rebellion, Green and Rewilding the Commons – an Illustrated Derive, by Dave and Stuart Wise.
Ebook via Libraries: ISBN: 9781919342535
King Mob: the Negation and Transcendence of Art, by Dave and Stuart Wise
Ebook ISBN=for libraries: 9781919342528
Lawton Browning, Fifth Estate, Vol. 60. No.1 Spring 2025 “New York City, 1967. Roaming the streets in debate on the merits of the then-peak vogue art movement, Abstract Expressionism, are Ben Morea, part of a local affinity group, Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, and David Wise and Anne Ryder of the English group of cultural subversives known as King Mob. It was perhaps on a matter of time before representatives of these two groups would cross paths. Both King Mob and the Motherfuckers (as they were colloquially known) emerged from the political tumult of 1967 under similar formative influences: a Marxist critique of capitalism, the international art movement known as Surrealism and, in the case of King Mob, as expelled members of the French critical theory group, the Situationist International.”
A Newcastle Dunciad: Memories of Music and Recuperation, by Dave and Stuart Wise
Ebook ISBN=for libraries: 9781919342542
Building For Babylon: Construction, Collectives and Craic, by Dave and Stuart Wise
Helen Macfarlane
Red Chartist: Complete Annotated Writings, and her Translation of the Communist Manifesto, by Helen Macfarlane
Simon Webb, The Friend, Britain’s Quaker magazine (15 November, 2024) ‘It must occasionally happen that translators would rather not work on a particular passage. Perhaps such a thing happened to the Scottish Chartist Helen Macfarlane when she was translating The Communist Manifesto from its original German. She was a socialist with strong religious beliefs, whereas Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels seem to have regarded religion as a dead end.’ You can read it full on The Friend website
Red Republican: Complete Annotated Works of Helen Macfarlane and Translation of the Communist Manifesto
Red Antigone: The Life and World of Helen Macfarlane 1818-60, by David Black
Ebook ISBN=for libraries: 9781919342566
Psychedelic History
Psychedelic Tricksters: A True Secret History of LSD, by David Black
Ebook ISBN=for libraries: 6610001082307
“I recommend this book; it is more historically accurate than earlier books on this subject.” – Tim Scully, underground chemist of the 1960s who produced “Orange Sunshine” LSD.
LSD Underground: Operation Julie, the Microdot Gang and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, by David Black
Ebook ISBN: for libraries: 9781919342580
Ellenore Clementine Kruger, Goodreads: Good background on old politics. Every now and then a chill blows in the wind and pushes us backwards in time and as i write this war is on the brink but certainly these old hippies were against war and represented an indigenous purity to be desired … a type of inner magic at peace with anarchy and due to the medical war on mortality there is just too much taboo… so this does have specific years and strains and gangs and names and locations which show a cool world but sadly the author mentioned David Solomon who he wasnt as big as other authors and i fear the biblical term of losing salt is like … pretty much the issue here: so yeah its a spiritual war but resting on material laurels like crystals and dots could definitely attract evil eye. *****
