Publications

From Somerset to the World: Clarks A Visual History 1825–2025 by Alexander Newman with a foreword by Jony Ive From rugmaker to shoemaker. From Quaker family business to global brand. From Somerset to the world. As Clarks celebrates its 200th anniversary, this book traces the remarkable history of the company behind some of the most [...]

This is the story of Greensleeves Records — from its origins as a mid-1970s West London record shop to its evolution into a pioneering record label that brought the cream of upfront, uncut Jamaican music to the world. With a focus on the label’s formative years and first 100 album covers, this extensively updated second [...]

Updated with new content, the revised second edition includes interviews with dancehall artists such as Ninjaman, Chronixx and Jahvillani, behind-the-scenes photographs from the film Rockers, insights into Jamaica’s favourite styles of Clarks from former company employees who were involved in their creation, and an expanded chapter on Jamaican style detailing the histories of fashion staples [...]

Publication date: 10 April 2018 Covers: Retracing Reggae Record Sleeves in London is a project by photographer Alex Bartsch documenting reggae album covers shot in London between 1967 and 1988. After years of research, and working in close collaboration with Al ‘Fingers’ Newman of One Love Books, Bartsch has identified and photographed more than 50 UK reggae sleeves in their [...]

In Fine Style: The Dancehall Art of Wilfred Limonious is a book and exhibition by Christopher Bateman and Al “Fingers” Newman, celebrating the work of pioneering Jamaican illustrator, Wilfred Limonious (1949–99). Compiled over a number of years, the book features examples of Limonious’ newspaper comic strips alongside his illustrations for the publications of JAMAL (the Jamaican [...]

The Sonar System is a children’s picture book set on the distant world of Tesfa, where instead of a sun, the planets revolve around a gigantic speaker and the inhabitants spend their time building sound systems and listening to music. Written and illustrated by Ras Mykha and developed by Let’s Go Yorkshire as a way [...]

Sound System Culture, Celebrating Huddersfield's Sound Systems The market town of Huddersfield, nestled within the Pennine Hills of West Yorkshire, has made a remarkable contribution to UK sound system culture. From Armagideon to Zion InnaVision, the Arawak club to Venn Street, Matamp to Valv-a-tron, this unlikely location has been a stronghold of the British scene, [...]