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Olivier Esteves On 25 May 1963, readers of The Middlesex County Times (Southall Edition) were taken aback by grisly news: [...]

Anandi Ramamurthy The need for black people to defend their own communities was a key motivating factor for the establishment of [...]

David Renton One way to see the history of the left in Britain is as a recurring conflict between two [...]

Avtar Brah I came to Britain from the USA at the end of 1971 and lived in London for a while [...]

Naaz Rashid On 4 May 1978, the day of local elections, Altab Ali, a young Bangladeshi textile factory worker in Whitechapel, [...]

Adam Elliott-Cooper For the campaigns and uprisings against street fascism and state racism in Southall (west London) in the 1970s, the [...]

Gargi Bhattacharyya Across Europe and beyond we are experiencing a frightening renewal of the electoral and street presence of authoritarian movements, [...]

Benjamin Bland Gurdip Singh Chaggar was just eighteen years old when he was brutally stabbed to death in Southall, West London [...]

Sue Easton I was 14 in 1979 and remember hearing something on the radio about where we lived, but it was [...]