Our intentions remain obscure.

Colleagues at Middlesex University have, for almost a fortnight, been in occupation of the mansion at Trent Park. We happened to have friends who’d been involved in earlier waves of activity at Middlesex. As a gesture to those intermittently flying red and black atop administration buildings everywhere – and for the sake of our friends, for whom these events were profoundly significant – we offer here parts of an archive on the events of 1991 at Middlesex Polytechnic – when 5 of 8 campuses were entirely occupied for weeks, in the first place because the artists couldn’t get the materials they wanted.

If we can find time we’ll write about these materials. Meanwhile we offer them as they are.

Hornsey Art College occupation.

1991, Quicksilver, Fine Art Occupation
1991, Quicksilver perhaps, Turner Prize demo.

Retrospectives on 91

1991 Cat Hill Occupation Retrospective
1991, Agitational retrospective. (Source of our lovely header image.)

Some writing on the ’88 MDX occupations.

1988 Loans demo, press coverage
1988 Occupation victory, retrospective

1991 student and professional press.

national press cuttings.
1991 Press coverage
1991 Press Coverage 3
1991 Press coverage, 2
more-or-less ephemeral student publications
Very small images of lots of student publications during the ’91 occupation movement – and a few more national bits.
Excerpts from ‘Occupation Daily’, a daily newsletter issued ? during the Trent Park occupation ?.
Occupation flyer – from 1991, but unknown site etc.

Enfield Teach-in programme, from ‘Occupation Daily’?
List of delegates sent to other colleges to agitate, from ‘Occupation Daily’?
Some stuff.

Chronology of the 1991 occupation movement

Chronology, first page.
Chronology, Second Spread.

‘Incite’, student magazine

Includes photos of 1991 Trent Park occupation.

First Spread.
Second Spread.
Third Spread, including Trent Park photos and report.