In April 1981, Brixton exploded into rioting - releasing a long simmering anger against the hated stop and search SUS...
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Thirteen young people died at a house fire in New Cross, south London on 18 January, 1981. They had been...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9gFoe64cz8 1979 was a pivotal year for world politics - only rivalled by 2016 with the election of Donald Trump...
Walk down Oxford Street today and it's impossible to avoid glimpsing the ever present influence of 2Tone whether it's the...
You have to wonder how a law passed in 1824 to deal with rough sleepers, many of whom were veterans...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-M0KEFm9I At the 1980 Conservative Party annual conference, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made one of her most infamous speeches when...
The 80s was a terrible time for many of Britain's youth. They were jobless and obliged to attend really dreadful...
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In recent years, I've co-authored the biographies of two Coventry black British heroes: Neville Staple and Errol Christie. I've also...
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An incident you may have forgotten or been unaware of - but back in 1981, Her Majesty The Queen was...
I have co-authored a couple of well-received biographies about two young, black British talents who got out of Coventry. One...
