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==Antecedents== In the United Kingdom, early antecedents of infoshops were the radical presses such as [[Giles Calvert]]'s printshop (1600s) and [[John Doherty (trade unionist)|John Doherty]]'s coffee house (1830s).<ref name="AltMedia53">{{cite book |last1=Atton |first1=Chris |title=Alternative Media |url=https://archive.org/details/alternativemedia00atto |url-access=limited |date=2010 |publisher=Sage |isbn=9780761967705 |page=[https://archive.org/details/alternativemedia00atto/page/n61 53]}}</ref> More recently, infoshops were associated with squatted anarchist social centres such as the [[121 Centre]] in Brixton, London<ref name="AltMedia47">{{cite book |last1=Atton |first1=Chris |title=Alternative Media |url=https://archive.org/details/alternativemedia00atto |url-access=limited |date=2010 |publisher=Sage |isbn=9780761967705 |page=[https://archive.org/details/alternativemedia00atto/page/n55 47]}}</ref> and the Free Information Network (FIN).<ref name="AltInfo" /> Writing in [[Maximumrocknroll]] in the 1990s, Chuck Munson placed North American infoshops in the lineage of peace and justice [[community centres]] and acknowledged the influence of European social centres.<ref name="Munson">{{cite news |last1=Munson |first1=Chuck |title=Your Friendly Neighborhood Infoshop |url=http://practicalanarchy.org/infoshops.html |access-date=25 July 2019 |work=Maximum RocknRoll |date=January 1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010204062900/http://practicalanarchy.org/infoshops.html |archive-date=4 February 2001}}</ref> Munson also stated there were over 60 infoshops (infoladen) in Germany which were connected to the [[Anarchism|anarchist]], [[Autonomism|autonomist]], [[squatting]] and [[Punk subculture|punk]] movements.<ref name="Munson" />
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