Welcome to the biggest online story collection of lives lived in unconventional ways!

You can find a full index of the archive here:

The Full Table of Contents

You can also:

• Sort texts on the archive by author here.

• Download any document on the archive, by clicking on one of the many download options, once on the document.

• Edit any text on the archive by clicking the ‘writers pen’ symbol, once on the document.

• Add texts to the library by clicking the ‘+’ button in the top right corner.

• And much more, simply have a look around.

For more information about this project click here.

For suggestions on how you can help improve this website click here.

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The archive is split into four main categories:

• Education has stories of people sneaking into university lectures without paying a thing, etc.

• Work has stories on the lives of comedians, sex workers, flight attendants, etc.

• Leisure has stories on polyamory, travellers, homeschoolers, freegans, etc.

• The Criminal Justice System covers everything from; reading on the legislators who advance prison reforms, to the terrorists and freedom fighters who get prosecuted as criminals, to stories of poor people getting arrested for dumpster diving food to feed their family.

As this project comes to its second anniversary, we have to acknowledge collaborators and views on this project haven’t been as forthcoming as we hoped.

This situation might change in the future, as archivists who have helped out on this project also helped secure funding towards developing a classic forum board called Radical Libraries. When the forum is up and running it could provide the boost this archive needs by being signposted on a single website discussion space for a few different radical libraries. However, finding dedicated web developers to work on this has also been slow going.

If anyone would like to help make this happen, please consider joining the group working on this here: <af2c.org>

Or, donate here: <fundrazr.com/anarchf2c>

Or, simply help introduce more people to this archive by sharing texts from this library or sharing posts from our social media: <linktr.ee/thelul>

If you like the optics of this website being able to be found at its own dedicated web domain (thelul.org) and you are optimistic the plucky site will be able to go on to big things by people only needing to remember how to type in the short URL, then perhaps with your donation you could leave a note saying this donation is a contribution towards domain costs.

If not enough interest is forthcoming this may be the last year we can be found at <thelul.org>. After a few months of being redirected to <thelul.radicallibraries.com> the latter sub-domain would then go on to be the only place people can find this archive.