Anarchist, publisher, would-be assassin: exhibition documents life of Stuart Christie

Stuart Christie, who was jailed in Spain at age 18 for ‘terrorist activities’, pictured four years later in 1968. Photograph: Ronald Spencer/ANL/REX/Shutterstock

To the British authorities of the 1970s the suspected terrorist Stuart Christie represented a dangerous menace, but to his admirers he was brave, principled and gifted.

Now the public will have the chance to judge for itself as a comprehensive Christie archive – a record of his life as a prominent anarchist, author, leftwing publisher and would-be political assassin – goes on show for the first time.