England's Dreaming Punk Archive: The Jon Savage Archive
This eclectic collection, purchased from music journalist and cultural historian Jon Savage in 2002, documents the history of the Sex Pistols and the whole of the punk era. The contents include fanzines, posters, fliers, graphic designs, original letters and documents, photographs, notebooks and much more. There is a contents listing available for consultation in the Archives. Please contact the LJMU Archivist for further details of the collection and consultation arrangements. Work is in progress to conserve the collection and to provide a full catalogue.
The collection consists mainly of the source materials for England's Dreaming: the Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, Jon Savage's definitive account of punk in British society in the 1970s. Punk was not just about music or clothes: it reflected a core of dissatisfaction and resentment built up at the end of a decade that saw the introduction of the 3-day week in Britain, strikes, increasing unemployment and collapsing public services. The England's Dreaming collection provides an opportunity to examine more closely a period now recognised as a crucial point in British twentieth-century social history.
