Ealing Book Festival

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THE HUNTLEY ARCHIVE TALK 7.30 pm, St Mary’s Road, Weston Hall

Lanre Bakare ‘
We Were There: How Black Culture, Resistance and Community Shaped Modern Britain
’.

‘A Vital corrective that enhances our understanding of Black British history’
–
Steve McQueen

From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Britain was in tumult.  Rocked by Margaret Thatcher’s radical economic policy, the rise of the National Front, widespread civil unrest and anti-immigration policies,  it was also a time of Black cultural creation.  In his much-heralded first book, Guardian journalist Lanre Bakare brings extraordinary and often overlooked Black lives into the spotlight in cities across the UK, including feminists and Rastafarians, academics and pan-Africanists, environmental campaigners and rugby-league superstars.  From the docks of Liverpool and Cardiff to the mills of Bradford and the dancefloors that hosted Northern Soul all-nighters, this is a profoundly important portrait of modern Britain.

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