In April 1981, a Labour left group gained control of the Greater London Council (GLC), led by Ken Livingstone MP. This group is often described as a post-1968 ‘new urban left’, a generation of young politicians and activists, many of whom spent formative years supporting social movements such as the women and gay liberation movements Read more about GLC Anti Racism Project, 1984 / 1985 by Dr. Hazel Atashroo[…]

The exterior mural movement that flourished across Great Britain from the late-1960s to the mid-1980s offers a fascinating moment of cultural production. Marking a substantial break from preceding mural traditions, the emergence of many hundreds of murals on the streets of towns and cities from Plymouth to Inverness coincided with the expansion of the exterior Read more about Murals and the State by Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann[…]